New AI tool predicts your biological age from a selfie
Our faces suggest our true age and even how much time we may have left on Earth.
While doctors learn to form a picture of a patient's health from their face, using what they call 'the eyeball test,' new research in the Lancet Digital Health indicates that this may be a job that artificial intelligence can enhance in the future.
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