THE brains behind an artificial intelligence (AI) bot that can predict births, deaths and everything in between have issued a warning to curious users.
AI bot Life2vec can tell you all sorts of health and social “life events” that you may experience in the coming years – including when you will die – with 78 per cent accuracy, according to its creators.
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It bows to the morbid fascinations of us humans, and our inability to cast our future’s inside balls of crystal.
It could predict fertility or obesity, or you could maybe predict who will get cancer or who doesn’t get cancer… But it could also predict if you’re going to make a lot of money.
Sune Lehmann, a professor at the Technical University of Denmark
But in March, the Danish researchers behind the model warned that cyber crooks were trying to monopolise on this human curiosity to see into – or calculate – the future.
Researchers said dodgy copycat apps and one website had started emerged online that aim to spike curious users with malware or a nasty phishing attempt.
Now, the creators have said that there are even new social media accounts posing as the legitimate Life2vec.
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These copycats claim to be the original Life2vec AI chatbot – or say they offer a similar service.
“We are aware of Life2vec social media accounts, and there is at least one fraudulent website,” the creators warned.
“We are not affiliated with these or any other entities that claim to use our technology.”
The Life2vec team told the public to “be careful of” bootleg websites that “have nothing to do with us and our work.”
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These copycat sites and social media accounts are thought to be ploys to steal people’s data and other sensitive information, such as your email address, phone number or credit card details.
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Life2vec was only unveiled in December.
The macabre AI bot was created by scientists in Denmark and the US, who fed it a registry of data of six million Danish citizens between 2008 and 2020.
From this data, the AI model is able to cast predications about people lives.
“It could predict health outcomes,” Sune Lehmann, a professor at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and lead author on the Life2vec study, told AFP.
“So it could predict fertility or obesity, or you could maybe predict who will get cancer or who doesn’t get cancer.
“But it could also predict if you’re going to make a lot of money.”
Unlike other life and health-predicting models, Life2vec functions in a similar way to ChatGPT – where users can have conversations with it.
“From one perspective, lives are simply sequences of events: People are born, visit the paediatrician, start school, move to a new location, get married, and so on,” Lehmann added.
It answers those big life questions that everyone wants to know – but couldn’t have an early answer to until this eerie stage of AI progression.
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However, the software is currently private and unavailable on the internet, researchers have confirmed.
So, it’s not actually possible for people to use it, and it’s unclear when Life2vec will be officially released into the public sphere.
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