OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attends an occasion to pitch AI for companies in Tokyo, Feb. 3, 2025.
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OpenAI on Wednesday introduced ChatGPT Well being, which is able to permit customers to securely join their medical data and wellness apps to the bogus intelligence chatbot.
ChatGPT Well being shouldn’t be supposed for analysis and remedy, and it isn’t supposed to interchange medical care, OpenAI stated. Fairly, the expertise is meant to assist customers navigate on a regular basis questions, and it goals to make ChatGPT’s responses extra related by grounding them in a consumer’s personal well being info.
“ChatGPT Well being is one other step towards turning ChatGPT into a private super-assistant that may assist you with info and instruments to realize your targets throughout any a part of your life,” Fidji Simo, CEO of functions at OpenAI, wrote in a publish on Substack.
OpenAI stated ChatGPT Well being has its personal devoted house inside the chatbot, so all of these information, conversations and linked apps are saved individually from different chats. Data and recollections from ChatGPT Well being won’t stream exterior of that house, and people conversations won’t be used to coach OpenAI’s basis fashions, the corporate stated.
The startup has partnered with b.nicely, which gives the well being information connectivity infrastructure that can permit customers to share their medical data with ChatGPT Well being.
Customers may also be capable to connect with Apple Well being, MyFitnessPal, Weight Watchers, the lab testing startup Perform and different information. Companies could be linked from instruments or apps in settings.
ChatGPT Well being was developed in “shut collaboration” with physicians, OpenAI stated.
OpenAI has deepened its push into well being care in latest months.
After the corporate launched its GPT-5 mannequin in August, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman instructed CNBC that well being care was “perhaps the world the place there’s the strongest enchancment of any class.”
In Could, it launched a benchmark known as Well being Bench that’s designed to measure how nicely AI fashions carry out in practical well being situations.
The startup stated Wednesday that “a whole lot of thousands and thousands” of individuals ask well being and wellness questions every week.
ChatGPT Well being will initially be made accessible to a small group of early customers that can provide suggestions and refine the expertise. OpenAI stated it would develop entry within the coming weeks.
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