With plans to completely revamp its Health app, the American multinational technology giant, Apple, is betting big on artificial intelligence with the addition of an ‘AI doctor’ like service as per the media report.
Apple Working On AI Doctor
This holds significance as this move is aligned with CEO Tim Cook’s belief that healthcare will be the Cupertino-based tech giant’s biggest contribution to mankind.
Earlier Apple CEO said, “If you zoom out into the future, and you look back, and you ask the question, ‘What was Apple’s greatest contribution to mankind?’ it will be about health,” during a 2019 interaction.
The company’s ambitious plan to add a non-invasive glucose monitor to the Apple Watch is still many years away, said Apple whisperer Mark Gurman.
In the meantime, the company’s health team is looking to use AI to improve the lives of its users.
Media reported that Apple’s team is working on Project Mulberry, which will see the Apple Health app completely revamped.
Some reports claim that this AI Doctor by Apple can actually replace human doctor.
They are basically planning to add a health coach via an AI agent to replicate some of the analysis done by a real doctor.
Reportedly, Apple’s upcoming Health app will collect data from all the user’s devices like iPhone, Apple Watch, earbuds and even third-party products.
The AI agent in the app will then use this data to make personalized recommendations to improve the user’s health.
Great Doctor Personality
Presently, Apple is training its AI agent using data from doctors on its staff.
Besides this, the iPhone maker has plans to bring in outside doctors.
In addition to this, Apple will be opening a facility near Oakland, California, where doctors can shoot their video content for the app, and is looking for a “great doctor personality” to act as a host of sorts for its revamped Health app.
While Gurman doesn’t go into detail about this doctor personality,
The Tim Cook-led company could potentially make this attempt to add a human angle to the app which is similar to Google and OpenAI who have used human artists to create voices for their chatbots.
Doctor Sumbul Desai runs Apple’s health team who is working on this new health app.
Besides him, the company’s chief operating officer, Jeff Williams, is also heavily involved in the project.
Moving ahead, Apple whisperers hints that development of the project is “in full steam”.
They are expecting to release the revamped app as early as iOS 19.4.
As we already know that Apple’s iOS 19 will be announced at its WWDC 2025 event on 9-13 June.
It’s stable update is due to arrive with iPhone 17 sometime in September.
In addition it’s iOS 18.4 update is due for release on 1 April (not an April Fool’s joke).
We could see the company’s AI Doctor in action around the same time next year if the work on the Health app overhaul goes on as expected.
