This AI Can Estimate How Long You’ve Been Dead. How It Works Is the Weird Part

Artificial intelligence can solve theoretical math problems, identify a mysterious enzyme system in viruses, potentially render humans extinct by the end of the decade, and, according to new research, estimate the length of time you’ve been dead.

In a study published Monday in Nature Communications, researchers developed an AI system that uses microbes on cadavers to estimate their postmortem intervals (PMI), or time since death. The system, called mHolmes, was trained on public data from 34 human cadavers. While further…