Google’s AI-powered Health Coach is doing exactly what you feared it would

• Google recently introduced its AI-powered Health Coach, coming to the new Google Health app.
• An early hands-on report reveals Health Coach making the AI cardinal sin: hallucinating things that never actually happened.
• In addition to making up phantom workouts, Health Coach is accused of delivering “pretty shallow” advice.

Big things have been happening lately for Google when it comes to fitness. Alongside launching the new Fitbit Air screenless tracker, Google introduced a big overhaul to the Fitbit app, transforming it into Google Health. A core part of this new experience is designed to be the Google Health Coach, an AI-powered trainer meant to offer personalized insights and advice about your health and fitness goals. And based on some early reports, the Health Coach is already doing just about the worst thing it could.

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