AI based death calculator Life2vec warns of massive fraud

Have you ever been interested in knowing when you will leave this world and pass away? US and Danish scientists have developed an AI tool which can predict an individual’s death to some levels of accuracy. However, with every creation, comes an issue of fake imitations.

New York Post reported that US and Danish scientists who created Life2vec have issued a warning to the people of a fraud by various imposters.

The warning describes that various imposters have created similar tools aimed at stealing an individual’s personal information and data including financial information.


Released in December, this tool has not yet been made public.

Life2vec is a tool which provides information to its users on when they will die based on a few questions. It works based on a CHAT-GPT model by asking questions based on an individual’s wealth, profession, residence and health history.

What is frightening is the 78% accuracy of this digital tool in its predictions. The creators stated that they aren’t associated with any of these fake websites.

Many of these fake websites are known to provide information on whether the users will become rich or not apart from predicting their death age.

The makers of this tool conducted deep research into this matter before arriving at various conclusions.

From 2008-2020, over 6 million people participated in these studies from Denmark. All of them varies in age and conditions. They determined the subjects who would love beyond January 1, 2016. Information was fed on each subject to AI tools who were able to make accurate predictions.

Using the information, Life2vec could specify who would be able to die before 2020 and they were accurate more than 75%.

FAQs:

Q1. What are the issues associated with AI?
A1. Generally, issues pertaining to data safety, job losses, deep fakes and intellectual property rights related issues come to the forefront when it comes to AI.

Q2. Which Indian city recently used AI to track illegal use of water and borewells?
A2. Owing to a water shortage, Bengaluru used AI to track down illegal use of water and drawing of water from borewells.