Where Google thinks gen­er­a­tive AI is head­ed in health­care

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Google un­veiled a new batch of gen­er­a­tive AI tools dur­ing its an­nu­al The Check Up event as the tech gi­ant builds on its re­search to im­prove health­care.

Google hopes that con­sumers can soon get a health coach in their pock­ets that they can query for per­son­al­ized health in­sights. The com­pa­ny’s re­search arm is work­ing with Fit­bit, the wear­able de­vice com­pa­ny Google owns, to build a large lan­guage mod­el out of per­son­al health da­ta such as sleep pat­terns, ex­er­cise in­ten­si­ty and heart rate vari­abil­i­ty.

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