OpenAI announced ChatGPT Health on Wednesday, which the company says will offer users a dedicated space to talk to ChatGPT about their health.
People already operate ChatGPT to ask questions about health issues; OpenAI says more than 230 million people ask health and wellness questions on the platform every week. However, the ChatGPT Health product separates these conversations from other chats. Thanks to this, the context of your health will not appear in standard conversations with ChatGPT.
If people start chatting about their health outside the Health section, the AI tries to get them to change.
In Health, AI can refer to issues discussed in the standard experience. For example, if you ask ChatGPT to facilitate you plan a marathon, the AI will know you’re a runner when you talk about your fitness goals in Health.
ChatGPT Health will also be able to integrate with your personal data or medical records from wellness apps such as Apple Health, Function and MyFitnessPal. OpenAI notes that it will not operate health conversations to train its models.
– wrote OpenAI General Manager of Applications, Fidji Simo blog post that it sees ChatGPT Health as the answer to existing health care issues, such as cost and access barriers, physician overcrowding, and discontinuity of care.
While the healthcare system has its flaws, using AI chatbots for medical advice poses a host of up-to-date challenges. Vast language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT work by predicting the most likely response to prompts, not the most correct response, because LLMs have no idea what is true and what is not. AI models are also prone to hallucinations.
In OpenAI’s own terms of service, it states that it is “not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of any medical condition.”
The feature is expected to be rolled out in the coming weeks.