An Australian AI can predict when you'll die with 70 percent accuracy

Scientists, data scientists that is, from the University of Adelaide in Australia have announced that they have managed to build an Artificial Intelligence (AI) that can predict when people are going to die, and it's 70 percent accurate, but unlike the AI's I've talked about before that can predict how long people who have had heart attacks have left to live, more accurately than human doctors, this one is different – it can predict when you're going to die irrespective of the state of your current health because it uses deep learning to analyse a range of different scans, such as CT scans, to search for the signs, and assess the severity of, heart disease, cancer, and other diseases. For example, look at it this way – if I asked you how long you thought you were going to live, and you exercised every day, had the perfect diet and had no history of hereditary diseases in your family's lineage then it's likely you'd be able to tell me, with some degree of confidence, that your chances of living beyond eighty years old were good. On the other hand though, if you never exercised, had an awful diet of alcohol, lard and sugar, and your family had a history of hereditary diseases then you might tell me that the chances of you living beyond eighty could be slim. See, in one fell swoop you've assessed the state of your overall health, roughly assessed the risk factors in your head and calculated the rough odds of how long you think you have left to live. And that's what this AI is being trained to do, except for the fact that rather than relying on gut instinct it's analysing real time scans and correlating the patterns it's seeing against a huge dataset of patient information.