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Arianna Huffington and Sam Altman have teamed up to create an AI health coach that they say will "reverse the trend lines on chronic diseases."
Their new company, Thrive AI Health, plans to use "best peer-reviewed science" and users' "personal biometric, lab, and other medical data" to "learn your preferences and patterns across the five behaviors" that are key to improving health and treating chronic diseases, including sleep, food, movement, stress management, and social connection, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.
The app will then use those patterns to create "personalized nudges and real-time recommendations" for users to change their daily habits.
Altman and Huffington say the app will be available as a mobile app by the end of the year.
But there's no guarantee the AI will work as promised.
"There is no reason to think it won't be plagued by the problems of bias, hallucination, and errors we see in cutting-edge AI models like ChatGPT," writes Dr. Kelly Lewis at the Conversation.
Lewis and colleagues looked at a company called Vitality, which makes platforms for health and life insurance, and found it to be similar.
"However, even if it does, it will still miss the mark because the idea of hyper
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World Bank Awards $1.4 M Grants to 12 Social Enterprises in Northeastern States
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