After Microsoft's Copilot GPT Fitness trainer, Google working on Personal Health LLM via Fitbit
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- Google’s Fitbit to get AI assistant for personalized health coaching.
- AI uses a medical version of the Gemini language model, not a general-purpose version.
- Fitbit AI will analyze data to suggest workouts & track sleep for better health.
Google is developing a new AI assistant for its Fitbit wearables, following similar announcements from Microsoft regarding its Copilot GPT’s Fitness Trainer.
Earlier, Microsoft launched a few Copilot GPTs in Microsoft Copilot, its hotly-wanted AI assistant tool; one of them is Fitness Trainer, which can answer questions like how to maximize walking fitness, proper nutrition for muscle growth, why stretching is important, etc.
On the other hand, Google’s AI assistant, called Personal Health LLM, is based on Google’s Gemini large language model and is designed to provide users with personalized health and fitness recommendations. The AI will be able to analyze data from Fitbit devices and Pixel phones to offer suggestions on workouts, sleep habits, and other health metrics.
Google emphasizes that the AI will use a “fine-tuned” version of Gemini specifically designed for medical applications and will not use the general-purpose version for health data. This medical version reportedly scored well on a benchmark test of US Medical Licensing Exam questions.
The Fitbit AI is still under development and will be tested in the Fitbit mobile app’s experimental section called Fitbit Labs. Only paying users will have access to the initial testing phase.
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