A group of researchers has unveiled an AI model that can predict a person’s likelihood of developing more than 1,000 diseases, and the AI even estimates when those illnesses might strike. Described this week in Nature, the AI is code named Delphi-2M and the tool was trained on anonymized health data from nearly 2.3 million people in the UK and Denmark. This marks one of the largest efforts yet to use generative AI to map out the future of human health.
Different than traditional health calculators that only cover specific conditions (e.g. heart disease, diabetes), Delphi-2M takes a holistic approach. This means that the AI tool actually simulates possible trajectories of your health over decades, forecasting sequences of complications, including illnesses, sleep patterns and other aspects affecting health.
