Doc’ing Station

“Like many people who strap on an Apple Watch every day, I’ve long wondered what a decade of that data might reveal about me. So I joined a brief wait list and gave ChatGPT access to the 29 million steps and 6 million heartbeat measurements stored in my Apple Health app. Then I asked the bot to grade my cardiac health. It gave me an F.” Luckily for Geoffrey A. Fowler, ChatGPT’s analysis of his health data was wrong. But when you read AI analysis, especially when you’re desperate for answers, it often sounds right. WaPo (Gift Article): I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data. Then I called my doctor.

+ If I shared my health data with ChatGPT, I’d expect it to say, “Hey, maybe you should get offline for a few hours and we can talk about this later…” For now, I’ve only asked it about some household fixes. And those answers were about as accurate as the ones Geoffrey Fowler got about his health. Let There Be Light.