AI Predicts Your Lifespan Using Activity Tracking Apps (engadget.com) 48
Russian scientists have crafted an AI-based algorithm that uses the activity tracking from smartphones and smartwatches to estimate your lifespan with far greater precision than past models. Engadget reports: The team used a convolutional neural network to find the "biologically relevant" motion patterns in a large set of U.S. health survey data and correlate that to both lifespans and overall health. It would look for not just step counts, but how often you switch between active and inactive periods -- many of the other factors in your life, such as your sleeping habits and gym visits, are reflected in those switches. After that, it was just a matter of applying the understanding to a week's worth of data from test subjects' phones. You can even try it yourself through Gero Lifespan, an iPhone app that uses data from Apple Health, Fitbit and Rescuetime (a PC productivity measurement app) to predict your longevity.
Dalek: (Score:2)
"I predict you will live for 4 more seconds. EXTERMINATE!"
Re: Dalek: (Score:1)
You're obviously not a programmer
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"For instance, if you have $100,000 in savings and you have 10 years left to live, you'd know that you can't spend more than $10,000 per year."
And reduce your gym time, so not to live longer than your money.
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"I predict you will live for 4 more seconds. EXTERMINATE!"
The Russian smartwatch is extremely accurate at predicting the time of death.
When it counts down to zero, it releases the nerve gas in the watch.
Obligatory... (Score:2, Insightful)
Farnsworth: Behold! The death clock. Simply jam your finger in the hole and this read-out tells you exactly how long you have left to live.
Leela: Does it really work?
Farnsworth: Well it's occasionally off by a few seconds. What with free will and all.
Fry: Sounds like fun. How long do I have left to live?
-Fry puts his finger in the hole and the clock dings-
Bender: Ooh! Dibs on his CD player!
More accurately? ... (Score:3)
Given it's Russia they'd need a vodka sensor for that
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It also has hooks to be plugged into your health insurance company.
Who have now mandated that you wear these sensors....
AI buzzword of 2018-2019 (Score:2)
AI didn't predict anything, a simple database analysis did.
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There is no such thing as AI FFS. God I wish this fucking dumbass trend of calling everything fucking AI would die in a fire. IT HASN'T BEEN INVENTED YET
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Of course we have AIs, however the trend to call everything an AI is indeed quite annoying.
Does not matter (Score:2)
More insurance companies and middlemen are going to find more ways to screw you over using information you never cared about or never thought would reach their twisted minds. AI or not or just some AI -- doesn't matter because this stuff is making people think about doing things that probably were already thought about but abandoned as impractical in the past.
Facebook and these other companies can keep your DATA private but they can profile and deduce their own information from your DATA and sell that info
Key features (Score:3)
Smartphone algorithm achieve very great accuracy for lifespan by complete examination of Russian user lifestyle:
Bad Data (Score:1)
The data isn't good enough. Pattern matching a tiny, tiny segment of your life to the averages of a population results in a near meaningless metric. The data is also highly skewed. How many 80 year olds do you know who were providing movement data when they were 30? None of the 30 years old who provided data have reached 80 yet. The data will miss any generational issues and there are definitely changes between generations. What percentage of the population has moved from physical labor into office st
Please stop calling everything AI? (Score:4, Insightful)
Could you? A calculator is not AI.
LIFE EXPECTANCY! (and then haha!) (Score:1)
Not life span. Life span is 120. Expected? At birth. Russia is 57. US is 76M/81F. Norway is more. Japan more still. Canada is much less.
But this is stupid anyway, as is any {quote}AI{quote} prediction. I refer you to
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS... [ssa.gov]
Re:LIFE EXPECTANCY - Canada (Score:2)
Canada - Female 84 Male 80
US - Female 82 Male 77
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"AI" this and "AI" that... (Score:2)
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What AI disaster? Did I miss it while I snoozed this afternoon?
Profit Model (Score:4, Funny)
Congratulations! You have a predicted lifespan of 50 more years!
Establishing connection to driverless car... SUCCESS
Your remaining predicted lifespan is now 10 seconds....
Do you wish to extend your lifespan by upgrading to the paid version for $5000? y/n
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Better than the Japanese one which just says
omae ha mou shindeiru
And then your head explodes
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Diet (Score:2)
Okay, sure, but we all know (Score:2)
they probably aren't accounting for leap years [youtu.be].
Not all deaths related to health as such (Score:3)
Here's roughly the breakdown in Norway, of 100k people:
Age 0-1 you have 0.63% die, most due to birth defects
Age 1-40 you have just 1% die, mostly drugs, suicide and massive trauma
Age 41-67 you have another 8.3% die, mostly lifestyle diseases
So 90% will make it to retirement age. From there it's quickly downhill, at 75 it's 80% and 95 only 10% remain. So for practical life planning you can expect to grow old (>75) but not very old (<95), of course if you got a family you should have insurance if you die in a car crash or suffer a massive heart attack but that's not a fate you plan for. I doubt there's any app that can give you a more meaningful practical answer even if they could tweak a few percentages correctly.
In fact I think they got it creepily well planned out, in the last year my life expectancy decreased by 0.97 years. Basically it's almost like an alarm clock counting down, okay you don't know exactly when the end comes but I'm young enough that my death is essentially one year closer per year. It's just the cycle of life I suppose, but it's not like that makes it any better.
Screw this. (Score:2)
Time left (Score:1)
APP SAYS: Oh no, your lifespan is only xx years! (Score:2)
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