AI's Predictive Power: From Life Events to Health, Income, and Mortality

Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence model called life2vec that can predict events in people's lives, including personality traits and time of death, with high accuracy. By training transformer models on large amounts of data about individuals' lives, the model organizes the data and makes predictions based on patterns and conditions in their past. However, ethical concerns regarding privacy, bias, and the use of sensitive data must be addressed before the model can be widely implemented. The next step for researchers is to incorporate additional types of information, such as text and images, to further enhance the model's predictive capabilities.