Introducing Atlantic Intelligence, a limited series aimed at helping you understand artificial intelligence and the new machine age. Join us by signing up here. In a recent discussion with my colleague Charlie Warzel, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and entrepreneur Arianna Huffington shared their bold plans to revolutionize the American healthcare system using generative AI. Their joint venture, Thrive AI Health, aims to provide a chatbot that offers personalized behavioral advice for specific health needs. While no product or release date has been confirmed yet, the future chatbot holds the potential to analyze biometric data of diabetic users and provide nutrition or exercise recommendations that fit their schedules. Altman expressed his belief that AI can truly transform the world, and improving people's health is one of those impactful use cases. However, as Charlie points out, AI has now become a technology of faith. Chatbots frequently provide incorrect information, making it difficult to trust their advice on basic matters like watering plants, let alone making decisions about our bodies.

Yet, proponents of AI assure us that something extraordinary is on the horizon. Charlie writes, "Whatever is built today is judged partially on its own merits, but also—perhaps even more important—on what it might presage about what is coming next. " The vision of revolutionizing the broken healthcare system is certainly tempting, as millions of people suffer due to its flaws. However, some challenges may be too complex for a chatbot to address. To read the full article and delve deeper into this topic, please click here. What to Read Next: - The Making of the Atomic Bomb: Lessons for AI: Last year, Charlie wrote a perceptive article highlighting how a generation of AI researchers treat Richard Rhodes's book as a guiding principle while developing technology with the potential to reshape our world. - The Environmental Impact of Data Usage: With the increasing reliance on data in modern life, Arthur Holland Michel explores the idea of using less data to help save the planet, questioning how it fits into the AI age. P. S. Thrive AI Health offers an alternative perspective on generative AI. Companies are still exploring the true potential of this technology. As David Karpf suggested earlier this year, the novelty of AI wears off, and we question the necessity of relying on computers to produce fake Shakespeare.