Find your date of death. Please proceed at your own risk.
The creators of Life2vec, a frighteningly accurate mortality calculation tool invented by American and Danish scientists, are warning those interested in learning about a new threat: copycat “decision machines” that hijack personal information. Warnings about the app.
“We are aware of the Life2vec social media accounts and there is at least one fraudulent website in existence,” the authors warned while describing these pathological impersonators. Metro reported.
For the uninitiated, Life2vec uses ChatGPT technology to predict when people will bite the garbage based on selected details from their personal lives, such as income, occupation, location, and health history. Masu.
“We take advantage of the fact that human life in some ways shares similarities with language,” said Sune Lehmann, lead author of the book. December 2023 Surveyhe told the Post. “Just as words follow one another in a sentence, so events occur one after the other in human life.”
Most frighteningly, this digital prophet of doom can accurately determine life expectancy 78% of the time.
Life2vec, announced in December, is not yet available to the general public or businesses. The software is housed at Statistics Denmark. But that doesn’t stop opportunists from trying to make money off this creepy prophet.
The Life2vec team has warned the public to “beware” of pirated websites that copy their work, warning that they “have nothing to do with us or our work.”
“We have no affiliation with these or any other organizations that claim to be using our technology,” the creators declared.
These counterfeits are plentiful online and often attempt to steal email addresses, phone numbers, credit card details, and other sensitive information, and can also infect your device with malware. .
It’s perhaps surprising that they are trying to make money by using highly accurate technology that can not only predict when people’s Judgment Day will come, but also predict whether people will become rich, among other things. That’s not the point.
“This model can predict almost everything,” Lehmann, who teaches networks and complex systems at the Technical University of Denmark, told the Post. “We predicted death because that’s what people (insurance companies, for example) have been doing for years, and we knew very well what could happen.”
To test the AI algorithm, Lehmann’s team studied a heterogeneous population of 6 million Danish subjects of different genders and ages between 2008 and 2020.
They determined which subjects were likely to survive for at least four years after January 1, 2016, by providing AI-specific information to each study participant.
Sample data includes: “In September 2012, Francisco received 20,000 Danish kroner as a guard at Elsinore Castle” or “During her third year at secondary boarding school, Hermione took five elective classes.” It is included.
Each datum was assigned a hyperspecific digital token (e.g., S52 for forearm fracture, O72 for “postpartum hemorrhage”) to calculate the approximate date of death.
Using the information above, Life2vec was able to kill biting vines more than three-quarters of the time by 2020.
In other words, predicting someone’s shelf life is not a roll of the dice.
Of course, the research team emphasized that some study participants were not provided with a prediction of death.
“That’s very irresponsible,” Lehman said, arguing that the purpose of the technology is not to satisfy morbid curiosity, but rather to “understand what is predictable and what is not.” did.
