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As with most other areas of the technology industry, we believe that AI will drive the next innovation in medical technology.The company’s annual check up event The company added a personal health chatbot to the Fitbit app, expanded Google Lens to improve searches for skin conditions, and expanded plans to use a version of its Gemini chatbot in the medical field.
One of the most interesting announcements from Google on Tuesday was details about an experimental AI feature for Fitbit users that was briefly teased last year. Fitbit Labs enables owners to draw correlations and “connect the dots” from health data tracked using wearable devices. Chatbots in mobile apps allow you to ask questions in natural language and create personalized charts to understand your health status.
The company hasn’t gotten too deep into its Fitbit chatbot yet, but an example it published on Tuesday shows a user asking about a potential connection between activity and sleep. The Fitbit assistant told us that days with higher user activity scores correlated with better sleep quality (though we cautioned against assuming that was the only reason).
Fitbit-generated AI tools are expected to arrive later this year. Google says it will be available (at least initially) only to Fitbit Premium subscribers with Android devices enrolled in the Fitbit Labs program.
The company sees Google Lens as filling gaps in healthcare that text-based search doesn’t address. It said the feature, introduced last year, which uses Lens to identify “similar-looking matches on the web” for skin conditions, is now available in more than 150 countries. Even if you don’t know where to start when talking about skin diseases, this method will help.
In a similar vein, Google has added new images and diagrams from trusted online sources to its web search results to help you understand conditions like neck pain. Next steps: The company believes visual results can be used to search for more health conditions, such as migraines, kidney stones, and pneumonia. Updates to the visual search engine will be rolled out in the coming months.
The company too mentioned Fitbit and Google Research are partnering with health and wellness experts and other medical professionals to create new AI models for health and wellness. The long-term goal is for large-scale language models (LLMs) powered by Gemini to power future AI capabilities across Google’s various health services.