PARIS:

In what could mark a turning point for modern medicine, European scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model capable of predicting future illnesses years before symptoms emerge.

The system, called Delphi-2M, was unveiled in a paper published in Nature on Wednesday. Drawing on the same "transformer" architecture behind consumer chatbots such as ChatGPT, the tool analyses medical histories to forecast the likelihood of more than 1,000 diseases.

"We've essentially taught the AI to read the grammar of healthcare," explained Moritz Gerstung of the German Cancer Research Center. "It learns how diagnoses occur in sequence and combination, enabling very meaningful predictions about what might come next."

To train the model, researchers tapped into Britain's UK Bioban

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