Artificial intelligence used to predict whether your next selfie could be your last

Death by selfie sounds like a scene from one of the Final Destination movies but, apparently, it's actually a thing. In 2014, 15 people died while snapping a selfie, followed by 39 people in 2015, and 73 in the first eight months of 2016. So what, if anything, can be done about this escalating trend? That's what a new research project carried out by researchers in India wants to find out. "There was a news article that was circulated in my research group about a death by selfie during summer 2016," Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, an assistant professor at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology in Delhi, told Digital Trends.