An artificial intelligence (AI) bot has been created with powers to predict births, deaths and everything in between. But the Danish researchers behind the AI model have a strong warning for people who want to use it to predict their own lives.
Hackers are taking advantage of people's need to know their future PHOTO Shutterstock
Called Life2vec by its creators, the bot can tell you all sorts of health and social “life events” you may experience in the years ahead.
“It may predict health outcomes“, Sune Lehmann, professor at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and lead author of the life2vec study, told AFP, according to The Sun.
“So it could predict fertility or obesity, or it could predict who will get cancer or who won't get cancer. But it could also predict whether you will make a lot of money“, she also said.
Unlike other life and health prediction models, Life2vec works in a similar way to ChatGPT – where users can have conversations with it.
“From one perspective, lives are simply sequences of events: people are born, go to the pediatrician, start school, move to a new place, get married, and so onLehmann added.
Unfortunately, cyber thieves try to take advantage of this human curiosity to know their future.
The researchers behind the project have warned the public that apps and websites imitating the app have started appearing on the internet.
They claim to be the original Life2vec AI bot – or claim to offer a similar service.
However, the Life2vec software is currently private and unavailable on the Internet, the researchers confirmed.
These fake sites are likely schemes to steal people's data and other sensitive information such as email address, phone number or credit card details.
They can even be used to spread malware.
Life2vec was created by scientists from Denmark and the US, who fed it with a data register of six million Danish citizens between 2008 and 2020.
Compared to ChatGPT, this AI uses information including income, profession, place of residence, injuries and pregnancy history.
When tested on a group of 35- to 65-year-olds, half of whom died between 2016 and 2020, the researchers found that its predictions were 11 percent more accurate than any other AI model existing.
