OpenAI announces ChatGPT Health to centralize user medical conversations

OpenAI announced ChatGPT Health on Wednesday, saying it will offer a dedicated space for users to have conversations with ChatGPT about their health. The company said more than 230 million people ask health and wellness questions on the platform each week. ChatGPT Health will silo those conversations away from users' other chats so health context won’t come up in standard conversations.

If users begin health-related chats outside the Health section, the AI aims to nudge them to switch over. Within Health, the AI may reference information you’ve discussed in the standard experience. For example, if you ask ChatGPT for help constructing a marathon training plan, the AI would know you’re a runner when you talk in Health about your fitness goals.

The product can integrate personal information or medical records from wellness apps such as Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal. OpenAI says it will not use Health conversations to train its models. Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s CEO of Applications, wrote in a blog post that ChatGPT Health is meant to respond to healthcare issues like cost and access barriers, overbooked doctors, and a lack of continuity in care.

The article noted limits of large language models: they predict the most likely response to prompts rather than the most correct answer and are prone to hallucinations.

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