- Future Apple Watch models can use AI to detect health problems
- Apple believes that this approach is more precise than traditional sensors.
- But ask questions about the privacy of your confidential health data.
In these days there is a lot of pessimistic and giant these days, and is justified in many cases. But an area where AI can have a greatly positive impact is on medical care, and it seems that Apple is considering whether automatic learning power can reinforce health metrics in future Apple Watch models. There is no guarantee that it will make it a finished product, but if you do, it could overturn how it manages its well -being through the laptop.
That idea comes from a recent research work published by Apple’s automatic learning research arm. There, the company states that a new model of the AI trained in Apple Watch behavior data can predict a wide range of health ailments. Impressive, Apple states that the model can detect these conditions with greater precision than the sensors that you will normally find in many of the best smart watches today.
While traditional wrist -based health analysis operates by scanning real -time data that directly provide their laptop’s sensors, the AI model can detect patterns in the way he exercises, moves and sleeps. Then use that information to identify any potential problem with your well -being.
Apple says that its AI model, called portable behavior model, or WBM, is particularly good to recognize the signs of pregnancy, where it achieved an accuracy of up to 92% when combined with biometric data.
The model also had a strong performance when it came to determining static health states, as if it is taking beta blockers, and transient health conditions such as sleep quality.
Potential controversy ahead
The AI models have generated a lot of controversy over the ways in which they are trained, with journalists, artists and more arguing that their works have been used without permission by AI companies. How is Apple’s reputation for fixed privacy with this concern when it comes to Apple Watch’s model?
Well, model training data apparently come from the study of the heart and Apple’s movement, where 160,000 participants voluntarily shared their health data through iPhones and Apple Watches. More than 2.5 billion hours of data were used to shape the model, and was tested in 57 different health -related tasks.
Even so, there are significant privacy concerns about the combination of AI and health analysis, such as when it comes to pregnancy data. With reproductive rights in many places, the idea that this type of information feeds on an opaque algorithm of AI, even one produced by Apple privacy champion, will be an uncomfortable perspective for many.
It also occurs at a time when the Secretary of Health and Human Services of the United States, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pledged to “make the United States again healthy” by encouraging all Americans to have a laptop in four years. How will AI appear in such a plan? We do not know with certainty, but if Apple’s AI reaches Apple Watch, we could soon find out.
