The creator of what is being dubbed the "AI death calculator" is warning those who are curious about when they will die.
The calculator, Life2vec, was invented by US and Danish scientists to help determine how long people will live. It uses ChatGPT technology and selects details about a person’s life, like their health history, residence, and profession, to make its prediction.
The tech was covered in a December 2023 study published in the journal Nature, and it found that the calculator could determine a person’s life expectancy correctly 78% of the time.
But while it may seem enticing to use, the creators are warning potential users because their tool is not yet available to the general public or corporations.
“We are aware of Life2vec social media accounts, and there is at least one fraudulent website,” the creators warned while talking with the UK media outlet Metro.
The creators shared that the copycat apps and social media accounts are not actually providing the same service Life2vec does, they’re just trying to steal your personal information.
They shared that would-be users need to “be careful” with more fraudulent websites imitating their creation popping up.
“We are not affiliated with these or any other entities that claim to use our technology,” the creators said.
Currently, the software is being stored at Statistics Denmark, and those responsible for it are sharing that it could be revolutionary, including Sune Lehmann, the lead author of the 2023 study.
“We use the fact that, in a certain sense, human lives share a similarity with language,” Lehmann told The New York Post. “Just like words follow each other in sentences, events follow each other in human lives.”
Lehmann went on to share that the technology could be used for more than just predicting life expectancy.
“This model can predict almost anything,” Lehmann said. “We predicted death because it’s something people have worked on for many years (for example, insurance companies), so we had a good sense of what was possible.”