What an AI Health Coach Actually Does (And Why It's Not Just Another Chatbot)
You've probably typed a health question into ChatGPT at some point. Maybe it was about why you felt tired, or whether your workout split made sense, or what to eat before a long run. The answer was probably fine. Generic, reasonable, technically correct — and almost completely useless for you specifically. That's the problem with most " AI health advice " right now. It's not wrong. It's just not yours . An AI health coach is supposed to fix that. But the term gets thrown around so loosely that it's worth asking a basic question: what is an AI health coach actually supposed to do, and how is it different from asking a general AI assistant the same question? The Difference Is Context, Not Intelligence Here's the thing people miss. ChatGPT isn't bad at giving health advice because the underlying model is weak. It's bad at giving you health advice because it doesn't know anything about you. It doesn't know that you slept five hou...