New cardiology A.I. knows if you'll die soon. Doctors can't explain how it works - AIVAnet

Here's a scenario scary enough to warrant a horror movie: An artificial intelligence that is able to accurately predict your chances of dying in the next year by looking at heart test results, despite the fact that the results may look totally fine to trained doctors. The good news: The technology might just wind up saving your life one day. "We have developed two different artificial intelligence algorithms that can automatically analyze electrical tracings from the heart and make predictions about the likelihood of a future important clinical event," Brandon Fornwalt, from Pennsylvania-based healthcare provider Geisinger, told Digital Trends. In addition to the likelihood of death in a year, the algorithms can also predict the development of an abnormal heart rhythm called atrial fibrillation. The neural networks were trained on a data set consisting of 1.77 million electrocardiogram (ECG) results from close to 400,000 people.