An international group of scientists from the United States, Denmark and Switzerland has concluded that artificial intelligence (AI) systems based on large language models can be used as a kind of “oracle” that predicts events in a person’s life and can even predict the course of events. A person’s probable life expectancy. The study was published in the scientific journal magazine Nature Computational Science (NCS).
The experts tested their assumptions on a model called life2vec, in which they uploaded data on the health and employment status of 6 million Danes.
After the neural network was initially trained by examining patterns in the data, it was found to outperform other advanced neural networks and accurately predict outcomes such as personality traits and timing of death.
“We used this model to address a fundamental question: To what extent can we predict events in your future based on conditions and events in your past? From a scientific perspective, we are not so much interested in the prediction itself, but in the data aspects that allow the model to provide such accurate answers,” said the study’s lead author. The author is professor Sune Lehmann from the Technical University of Denmark.
Life2vec encodes data into a large vector system, a mathematical structure that organizes various information. The model decides where to place data on birth time, schooling, education, salary, housing and health.
When scientists analyze the model’s response, the results are consistent with existing findings in the social sciences. For example, other things being equal, people in management positions or with high incomes are more likely to live longer than regular workers or people diagnosed with mental disorders.
The authors of the article emphasize that the life2vec model is surrounded by ethical issues such as protection of personal data, privacy and the role of bias in evaluation. A deeper understanding of these issues is needed before the model can be used, for example, to predict a person’s risk of being affected by disease or preventable life events.
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