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Experts in Russia designed a free app dubbed Gero, which uses AI to analyse activity data from your phone accelerometer to estimate your lifespan within a tenth of a year.
When combined with information recorded by wearable fitness monitors, this prediction becomes even more precise.
The estimate will even be revised downwards if you don't keep up with your healthy living routines, hopefully adding an incentive to stick to them.
The app is the work of researchers at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
They analysed physical activity records and clinical data from the 2003 to 2006 US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).
A neural network was then trained with the results to predict the biological age and mortality risk of volunteers using a week long stream of activity measurements.
The recent introduction of affordable fitness wearables means individuals now have access to their own measurements.
This tracking is already done without interfering with the daily routines of hundreds of millions of people all over the world.
Using the AI's knowledge from NHANES, the app is able to analyse activity data from such wearables or a smatphone's built-in accelerometer.
In a written statement, Dr Peter Fedichev said: "Artificial intelligence is a powerful tool in pattern recognition and has demonstrated outstanding performance in visual object identification, speech recognition and other fields.
"Inspired by these examples, we explored AI potential for Health Risks Assessment based on human physical activity.
"Life and health insurance programs have already begun to provide discounts to their users based on physical activity monitored by fitness wristbands. We report that AI can be used to further refine the risks models.'
MailOnline decided to put the beta version of the app, which currently only works on iPhones, to the test on members of staff.
Our first volunteer, MailOnline senior health reporter Stephen Matthews, who scored 69.2, said: "I was utterly shocked to discover I'll die before I reach 70, if this app proves true.
"I live an unhealthy lifestyle, full of junk food, booze, late nights and work a stressful job -- so the app probably isn't too far off the truth."
Science and Technology reporter Joe Pinkstone, who scored 71.8, added: "The prediction from the app that I'll make it to more than 70 years old was a pleasant one.
"With a diet that has definite room for improvement and a gym schedule that's whimsical at best, I can now make informed decisions about my activity and the long-term impact these choices make.
"I struggle to believe that it can account for the many external factors involved in life expectancy, but as a baseline for general well-being I believe it has its uses."
Health reporter Alexandra Thompson, who scored the highest at 73.6 said: I'm not happy with result! I run 5k three times a week, I'm a non smoker and healthy eater, although I do drink red wine."
Freelance reporter Jack Flanagan, who scored the lowest at 68.9, added: In my go with it, it didn't take into account my weight or sleep patterns -- so that could've improved my score.
"My family also tend to have long lives, so that might've also impacted the results if it'd be a incorporated. Also, I'd expect healthcare to be a lot better by then... I wonder if that's been factored in?' The full findings of the study were published in the journal Scientific Reports. | |||||||||
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