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AI can now predict future events in human lives
Season 5 · Episode 42

AI can now predict future events in human lives

The Briefing · LiSTNR

January 29, 202411m 5s

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Show Notes

The potential for artificial intelligence is indisputable. Though it has just been over a year since Chat GPT launched, now over 100 million people use the site weekly. But how far could the technology go? Could AI accurately predict the future?

Some Danish researchers believe that it already can.

In a published study, they've taken the principles of large language models, like Chat GPT, and applied it to data of Denmark's 6 million people, predicting with 78% accuracy aspects such as personality and behaviour, and even the likelihood of death within a given timeframe.

In today's afternoon episode of The Briefing, Bension Siebert speaks with lead author and researcher, Professor Sune Lehmann, about what the study found, and what it could mean for the future.

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