{"id":817094,"date":"2025-01-04T08:28:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T14:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/the-ai-health-coach-from-openai-and-arianna-huffington-sounds-like-its-still-out-of-shape\/"},"modified":"2025-01-04T08:28:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T14:28:01","slug":"the-ai-health-coach-from-openai-and-arianna-huffington-sounds-like-its-still-out-of-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/the-ai-health-coach-from-openai-and-arianna-huffington-sounds-like-its-still-out-of-shape\/","title":{"rendered":"The AI health coach from OpenAI and Arianna Huffington sounds like it’s still out of shape"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The AI health coach<\/a> hyped up by OpenAI<\/a> CEO Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington earlier this summer as Thrive AI Health may not be ready to come off the bench just yet, as first found<\/a> in what seems to be a brief and inadvertently released demo by TechCrunch. <\/em>The health data tracker uncovered seems like a limited version of ChatGPT<\/a> centered on sharing information gathered from your health wearables and leveraged to design workout routines.<\/p>\n

If that sounds familiar, it’s because it’s basically the same as a million other health apps, not to mention those services built into Apple<\/a> and Android mobile devices. Personalizing (and misspelling) suggested prompts like \u201cCan you analyze my sleep patterns?\u201d and \u201cWhat were my [sic] heart rate over the last week?\u201d doesn’t come off as much of a revolution in personal health and wellness the way Thrive’s backers envisioned.<\/p>\n

Huffington’s wellness technology firm Thrive Global and the OpenAI<\/a> Startup Fund set up Thrive AI Health in the summer to eventually offer personalized health coaching with expert-level guidance. Altman and Huffington boasted in a shared op-ed that the AI choice could help reduce chronic diseases by promoting healthier daily behaviors.<\/p>\n

The personal suggestions are supposedly created from peer-reviewed scientific research as well as biometric data. Thrive AI Health hired former Google<\/a> product management leader DeCarlos Love as CEO, which made sense as he had overseen Fitbit<\/a>, the Pixel Watch,<\/a> and Wear OS.<\/p>\n

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“Thrive AI Health Coach is the product to solve the limitations of current AI and LLM-based solutions by providing personalized, proactive, and data-driven coaching across the five daily behaviors,” Love said in a statement when the company launched. “This is how it will improve health outcomes, reduce healthcare costs, and significantly impact chronic diseases worldwide.”<\/p>\n

Since then, the company hasn’t said much about its plans, and the website doesn’t offer anything beyond a beta access signup sheet for those interested in trying out the AI coach. TechCrunch <\/em>noted that the only recent mention of the company was when personal health management platform Function Health cited Thrive AI Health as part of a deal where members can share their data with the AI health coach for better advice.<\/p>\n

Using AI to personalize health and wellness makes sense, but it may be harder to embed in a product than Altman and Huffington realized. If rumors that developers are struggling<\/a> to make the next generation of AI models meet expectations are true, Thrive AI may not be as close to a full release as the founders hope.<\/p>\n

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