What is the new ChatGPT Health and how will it connect with Garmin, Coros, etc.?

OpenAI, the owner of the well-known ChatGPT, and Apple are making a leap with the launch of ChatGPT Health, the artificial intelligence tool that aims to make health data collected by applications like Apple Health much more accessible to users. However, this product raises privacy issues as health data is considered sensitive information and is especially protected under most legislations.

ChatGPT arrives at the analysis of sports and health data in partnership with Apple

That one of the uses people make of AI is to consult it about health issues is not surprising to anyone; what we are not aware of is the magnitude of this use, which, according to ChatGPT data, means that 230 million people worldwide make some type of health inquiry each week to the well-known Artificial Intelligence application.

Obviously, OpenAI could not overlook this business volume and, seeking to take advantage of it, launches ChatGPT Health, a health space that users can connect directly with the Apple Health application with the aim of allowing ChatGPT to process the vast amount of raw data provided by the Apple application: hours of sleep, calories, physical activity, etc., in a context that can be understood in a much more accessible way by users.

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Since these are health data, which are especially protected at the privacy level, ChatGPT has announced that it will comply with this principle when handling this information, isolating health data from other conversations with this AI and not using this information for training its models. However, this does not seem to be enough to comply with the stringent data protection regulations in force in the European Union and Great Britain, so, at least for the moment, ChatGPT Health will not be available in these locations.

Beyond the moral dilemma that may arise from the processing of health data by an Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT Health poses a threat to specific applications, whether for nutrition like MyFitnessPal, training like Training Peaks, or activity logging like the popular Strava, which could see all their functionalities absorbed by ChatGPT, who, in addition, thanks to the contextualization that the Artificial Intelligence is capable of, would allow the user to make better use of all this information. In fact, just a few days ago, we explained how some people are already using ChatGPT to act as their personal trainer, programming increasingly personalized training sessions.

A bet by ChatGPT on the world of sports, from which, for the moment, companies like Garmin or Coros have preferred to stay on the sidelines, with the advantage that, being the generators of data through their devices, they still have some control over it, which they try to assert through their own platforms. However, this is nothing more than a minor obstacle for the user who wishes to use ChatGPT Health, as they would only need to manually export the data to ChatGPT to obtain the same analysis through Artificial Intelligence that Apple users can enjoy natively.

In any case, the revolution in data analysis that Artificial Intelligence represents is here, and it was only a matter of time before it reached the sports field. Sooner or later, it is very likely that it will become our own personal advisor, explaining to us what to train the next day, what to eat, the mistakes we made in our last training, whether the data indicates that we are incubating some illness, whether we should take a break that day, or any aspect related to our sports performance that only the most expert trainers are capable of quantifying and interpreting.