OpenAI and Arianna Huffington Are Working Together On an 'AI Health Coach' 25
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and businesswoman Arianna Huffington have announced they're working on an "AI health coach" via Thrive AI Health. According to a Time magazine op-ed, the two executives said that the bot will be trained on "the best peer-reviewed science" alongside "the personal biometric, lab, and other medical data you've chosen to share with it." The Verge reports: The company tapped DeCarlos Love, a former Google executive who previously worked on Fitbit and other wearables, to be CEO. Thrive AI Health also established research partnerships with several academic institutions and medical centers like Stanford Medicine, the Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute at West Virginia University, and the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine. (The Alice L. Walton Foundation is also a strategic investor in Thrive AI Health.) Thrive AI Health's goal is to provide powerful insights to those who otherwise wouldn't have access -- like a single mother looking for quick meal ideas for her gluten-free child or an immunocompromised person in need of instant advice in between doctor's appointments. [...]
The bot is still in its early stages, adopting an Atomic Habits approach. Its goal is to gently encourage small changes in five key areas of your life: sleep, nutrition, fitness, stress management, and social connection. By making minor adjustments, such as suggesting a 10-minute walk after picking up your child from school, Thrive AI Health aims to positively impact people with chronic conditions like heart disease. It doesn't claim to be ready to provide real diagnosis like a doctor would but instead aims to guide users into a healthier lifestyle. "AI is already greatly accelerating the rate of scientific progress in medicine -- offering breakthroughs in drug development, diagnoses, and increasing the rate of scientific progress around diseases like cancer," the op-ed read.
The bot is still in its early stages, adopting an Atomic Habits approach. Its goal is to gently encourage small changes in five key areas of your life: sleep, nutrition, fitness, stress management, and social connection. By making minor adjustments, such as suggesting a 10-minute walk after picking up your child from school, Thrive AI Health aims to positively impact people with chronic conditions like heart disease. It doesn't claim to be ready to provide real diagnosis like a doctor would but instead aims to guide users into a healthier lifestyle. "AI is already greatly accelerating the rate of scientific progress in medicine -- offering breakthroughs in drug development, diagnoses, and increasing the rate of scientific progress around diseases like cancer," the op-ed read.
Should be banned (Score:5, Insightful)
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In this case the AI is likely to recommend huffing.
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You have won the Internets for today.
Oh, look at this (Score:3, Informative)
ChatGPT (the best of them all) is still just a parrot.
Words in, words out. Not too many words, by the way.
They are cool at rephrasing, summarizing.
They "understand" jack shit.
They still hallucinate. An euphemism to "MLs make sh*t up". They do it a lot. No cure to it in sight.
Treating MLs as intelligent beings that can be trusted to advise on issues as sensitive as human health is hilarious.
which one is the real AI jesus (Score:2)
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All fake! AI is too stupid to know that Jesus is not a caucasian supermodel.
"Jesus detained at border. News at 11"
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big pharma owns all the doctors & hospitals now, its all about money & profits
Actually, insurance companies pretty much own doctors and hospitals. Heck, we've got two in my city that literally have the insurance and the hospitals under the same name, and of course claiming to be completely separate business entities, but all reporting to the same overall board. Technically it's two separate boards, meeting in two separate places, but with all the same exact members. Of *COURSE* that's going to result in profit first being the priority. And we're so far removed from patient care matte
no surprise (Score:1)
> sleep, nutrition, fitness, stress management, and social connection
If you aren't sleeping enough or exercising you already know it.
If the gamified sleep/food/exercise trackers haven't motivated you, I doubt a chatbot will fare better.
Automated nagging (Score:4, Insightful)
Of course this app can't actually keep you healthy, all it can do is harass you. It's a question of who's the boss, you or the app.
Since when is HuffPo founder a doctor (Score:1, Redundant)
There should be serious liabilities to anything that gives âoehealth adviceâ. A washed up plagiarist that happens to get rich from an AOL spending spree in failed news sites does not give me much confidence. This is just another soak up investment dollars and hope somebody buys us out before the scam collapses.
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i'm sure they will listen (Score:1)
i'm sure they will listen to a naggy verbose chatbot for motivation to exercise and not eat crap
i'm also sure the business plan behind this is to just monetize health data
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i'm sure they will listen to a naggy verbose chatbot for motivation to exercise and not eat crap
i'm also sure the business plan behind this is to just monetize health data
And how long until the pharmaceutical companies tell people - what you describe sound like a tailor made issue for Rexulti, and don't forget glaxxo also makes Itluxer, for the side effects of Rexulti, and Ingrezza to treat the tardive diskinesia it causes , and since Ingrezza often creates anxiety and insomnia, you should be upping your dose of Rexulti, and also put on Ambien, and since Ambien often causes impulsive and unusual behavior, you need to go to therapy and get more maintenance drugs.
Our shareh
Historically (Score:2)
...the US has been the country where snake-oil salesmen have thrived the most, and have convinced the legislation that selling (almost) anything new, without safeguards, and using convincing lies, should always be allowed.
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That's why 90% of all innovation comes from the US.
England already banned decent AI research. The rest of EU is sure to follow.
Type I and Type II errors are a real thing.
China may pull out in front before long.
HIPAA (Score:2)
Cue HIPAA violations ending this misguided idea in 5... 4... 3... 2...
Nagware (Score:2)
Nagware has never succeeded in the marketplace.
Study (Score:1)
Huffington (Score:2)
Working Together On an 'AI Health Coach' (Score:2)
an 'AI Health Coach
A coach to advise on the health of an AI system? Nope.
A coach to advise on the mental health effects of AI dependence? Nope.
An AI coach to help you achieve acceptable societal standards of youth & beauty? That's a bingo.