Apple reportedly wants to ‘replicate’ your doctor next year with new Project Mulberry
Apple reportedly wants to ‘replicate’ your doctor next year with new Project Mulberry
Apple reportedly wants to ‘replicate’ your doctor next year with new Project Mulberry
Apple reportedly wants to ‘replicate’ your doctor next year with new Project Mulberry
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Apple’s Project Mulberry aims to revamp the Health app with an AI health coach, offering personalized guidance. Set to debut in iOS 19.4, it will analyze user data to provide tailored health recommendations. The app will feature educational videos from various health experts and may integrate with the iPhone’s camera to assess workouts, potentially enhancing Apple Fitness+. Curious to see how helpful it’ll actually be, or if it’s just more hype than health.
They’re already doing a great job – I don’t have an apple or a doctor
Could this open Apple to malpractice lawsuits for its AI giving dubious medical advice?
Edit:
see also – https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/digital/augmented-intelligence-medicine
So AI is gonna tell me to lose weight now too great
My cousin, who is a structural engineer, asked ChatGPT exactly the same question at six different times over one week (“how much load can a steel beam carry?”). Note that this is something any 2nd-year engineer can solve.
The AI returned the correct answer 3 times. Two answers were (off by -20%, +300% respectively), and the other was an answer to a question that wasn’t asked.
Personally, I would consult a witch doctor before trusting and AI.
An Apple a day keeps the doctor away??? Zinngggggg
On the one hand… Jesus Fucking Christ.
On the other hand… can’t possibly be worse than the MediCaid ~~scammers~~ doctors.
Maybe they should fix Siri first before announcing new vaporware.
There’s only one good medical thing I know of that AI has done, and it’s identifying cancer cells with very high accuracy. A full on AI doctor is a terrible idea.
My Apple Watch tells me to stand up in the middle of the night during my sleep schedule. Maybe they should figure stuff like that out first
Last time I went to see a doctor, they searched my symptoms in their medical wiki. I’m sure AI can do the same.
Google’s AI can’t even get pop culture trivia questions right. Apple thinks they can do medicine?
Great, as long as the motherfucker has license to prescribe medicine, I can figure out the rest.
Depending on how things are going, this may become a new type of health insurance worse than an HMO or even worse than medical sharing programs. Pair it up with one of the major mail-order Rx programs and you have an efficient recipe for disaster.
Great.
Now WebMD and the AI can say my mild skin rash is cancer(it was good ol’ dermatitis treated with basic steroid cream).
Mine will be really really easy to replicate.
Oh! I don’t even need that service, just replicated my doctor! Two doctors now that don’t exist!
I’m a nurse and have asked AI questions I knew the answer to and had it straight up make up answers. It apologized when I asked for citations.
Frankly Apple is surprisingly very behind the health and wellness game when compared to Oura or Whoop.
Apple seems to be purely focused on “close your rings” regardless if that’s the best thing for your body on that given day. There seems to be no real attention given to wellness and recovery. Seems like a huge missed opportunity and an area competitors are doing very well in and showing there’s a market for.
Interesting development! Do you know if Project Mulberry will integrate with existing health apps or devices?
We really need legal liability for the creators of LLMs