Can AI predict the day you die?

This article by Rebecca George is an emotional read. It charts the journey of her fathers demise, and death due to an incurable brain tumour.

The visits to consultants, each offering good intentions and noncommittal words about how long her dad might have, creating false hope.

So she turned to ChatGPT, uploading his MRI, his medical charts, his test results and got an answer. One that was spookily accurate.

Could the humans have been more accurate - possibly, but it is really hard to tell a patient and their family what you really think. Tough conversations are difficult to navigate. It is human and empathetic to give a more generous timeline.

Will ChatGPT, or your AI of choice, be as accurate each time - it is not as fantastic as you think.

Life2vec (https://life2vec.dk) analysed a subset of six million Danish people, aged between 35 and 65, specifically because “it is particularly challenging to make survival predictions in this cohort.”

The model was trained on information about the people, gathered between 2008 and 2015, to make its predictions about whether they would likely live for at least four years beyond 1 January 2016. When they checked the predictions, the algorithm was 78.8% accurate.

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