Artificial intelligence better than humans at predicting premature death: Study

Robots with artificial intelligence (AI) might have once seemed like an idea only possible in science fiction, but as technology advances, chances are they will become more common. One such robot, for example, spoke to members of the United Kingdom Parliament last year about caring for the elderly. More recently, researchers at the University of Nottingham in the UK developed what's known as a "machine learning algorithm" -- think about it as a robot brain -- capable of learning from reams of data and then making predictions based on the data. In a new study, the algorithm was able to predict the risk of premature death in a group of middle aged people with better accuracy than a human with statistical models. The AI also took a fraction of the usual time to do so.