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Re:Building an AI to predict human age from a blood sample by echelon on Sunday March 08, 2020 @11:55PM (#22522873)
Far-reaching prediction: they're going to do facial prediction from blood samples as well. Law enforcement really wants to generate sketches from unknown DNA found at crime scenes.

That is, of course, in addition to the all-encompassing family trees we're providing them with 23andme.

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Re:Building an AI to predict human age from a blood sample by cjbprime on Monday March 09, 2020 @12:36AM (#22523032)
In what sense in this a prediction? The challenge of estimating faces from DNA is one that researchers have already been competing and publishing papers on for years: https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/08/29/1711125114
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Re:Building an AI to predict human age from a blood sample by ruborcalor on Monday March 09, 2020 @11:01AM (#22525916)
Haha yeah we better watch out. Another prediction could be that blood tests will become standard when signing up for various forms of insurance.
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