{"id":98395,"date":"2019-11-11T18:03:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T02:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/ai-can-tell-if-youre-going-to-die-soon-we-just-dont-know-how-it-knows"},"modified":"2019-11-18T04:29:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T12:29:30","slug":"ai-can-tell-if-youre-going-to-die-soon-we-just-dont-know-how-it-knows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/ai-can-tell-if-youre-going-to-die-soon-we-just-dont-know-how-it-knows","title":{"rendered":"AI Can Tell If You\u2019re Going to Die Soon. We Just Don\u2019t Know How It Knows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-can-tell-if-youre-going-to-die-soon-we-just-dont-know-how-it-knows.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Albert Einstein\u2019s famous expression \u201cspooky action at a distance\u201d refers to quantum entanglement, a phenomenon seen on the most micro of scales. But machine learning seems to grow more mysterious and powerful every day, and scientists don\u2019t always understand how it works. The spookiest action yet is a new study of heart patients where a machine-learning algorithm decided who was most likely to die within a year based on echocardiogram (ECG) results, reported by New Scientist. The algorithm performed better than the traditional measures used by cardiologists. The study was done by researchers in Pennsylvania\u2019s Geisinger regional healthcare group, a low-cost and not-for-profit provider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Einstein\u2019s famous expression \u201cspooky action at a distance\u201d refers to quantum entanglement, a phenomenon seen on the most micro of scales. But machine learning seems to grow more mysterious and powerful every day, and scientists don\u2019t always understand how it works. The spookiest action yet is a new study of heart patients where a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98718,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98395\/revisions\/98718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}