Google recently launched something called Health Coach, an “AI” thing that’s part of the company’s new Fitbit products. Let’s check in with how that’s going.
Put simply, Google’s paid replacement for Fitbit Premium immediately began hallucinating, even admitting to having made up the data before asking if, you know, maybe I’m the one who actually forgot to input a run. Remember, this is my very first report from this thing, making for an awful first impression. Even after this correction, the run data continues to exist within the AI-powered home screen layout, despite no record actually appearing within my account. It’s not exactly a great advertisement for a platform that costs $10 per month or $100 annually.
↫ Will Sattelberg at 9To5Google
The entire US’ – and thus much of the world’s – economic growth is built on this trash. What could possibly go wrong?
A friend of mine was banned from a runner’s forum for arguing with someone who was showing off some very suspicious performance stats (and who also happened to be a forum admin as he learned).
Sports gear that will “hallucinate” stunts you never actually pulled might sound appealing to some people, sadly.
That’s pay-to-win at its finest.
Now plug this up to your health insurance system, and you can no longer tell who’s doing wrong here.
Welcome to Gattaca.
In other news:
A german clinic is liable for the shit its AI-chatbot is telling patients:
https://www.golem.de/news/urteil-klinik-haftet-fuer-falschaussagen-von-ki-chatbot-2605-208728.html
In the old days you could go fro a run or hit the gym without telling Google all about it. I guess now we aren’t supposed to.
In b4 “you got to have agency”.