Google's AI can predict when a patient will die

AI knows when you're going to die. But unlike in sci-fi movies, that information could end up saving lives. A new paper published in Nature suggests that feeding electronic health record data to a deep learning model could substantially improve the accuracy of projected outcomes. In trials using data from two U.S. hospitals, researchers were able to show that these algorithms could predict a patient's length of stay and time of discharge, but also the time of death. The neural network described in the study uses an immense amount of data, such as a patient's vitals and medical history, to make its predictions.