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🔆 Fool Me Once: The Role of Trust in Healthcare and Nutrition Solutions
Pokemon Go player data for AI navigation systems, all time high for enterprise AI spending and more.
Emma G Moller & Allegra Guinan
November 28, 2024
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🗞️ Issue 46 // ⏱️ Read Time: 7 min
Hello 👋
In the realm of healthcare and nutrition, the old adage "fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me" takes on new meaning. As the traditional boundaries between food, healthcare, and nutrition are dissolving and becoming interconnected, the role that trust plays in related AI solutions is becoming increasingly important.
In this week's newsletter
What we’re talking about: The evolving role of AI in personalized nutrition and healthcare, highlighting its potential to revolutionize health decisions while emphasizing the risks of inaccurate or irresponsible AI implementation.
How it’s relevant: As AI becomes increasingly integrated into health-related decisions, it offers groundbreaking capabilities. The potential for errors—ranging from caloric miscalculations to unsafe dietary advice—underscores the necessity for robust frameworks to ensure AI systems are accurate, ethical, and aligned with human health priorities.
Why it matters: AI's influence on health is transformative, but mistakes can have serious consequences, particularly when dealing with dietary needs or medical conditions. By integrating a responsible AI approach, we can ultimately ensure that technological advancements genuinely enhance human well-being.
Big tech news of the week
🖥️ Small and medium language models are rising in popularity.
🌍 Niantic uses Pokémon Go player data to build an AI navigation system.
🤑 Enterprise AI spending reached 13.8 Billion $ this year. Six times the size since 2023!
Glue + Cheese = The Perfect Pizza? 🍕
Have you ever been frustrated with how the cheese on your pizza slides off? Have you ever considered mixing the cheese with some glue to fix it? Didn’t think so. Yet, “Add some glue,” was the suggestion of Google’s AI Overview feature when it launched earlier this year. “Mix about 1/8 cup of Elmer’s glue in with the sauce. Non-toxic glue will work.”
When your dinner plate is effectively part of your healthcare regime, the stakes for accurate AI guidance rise dramatically. This reality determines how AI must earn its place in our health decisions.
On November 28th at 2 pm CET, Team Lumiera is hosting a webinar with Qina, a specialized nutrition innovation consultancy, on this topic.
Personalization taken to new heights
AI in personalized nutrition and healthcare has immense potential. Here are seven ways that companies in this ecosystem are increasingly relying on AI to deliver ultra-personalized products and services to a broader audience:
Product scoring: Imagine an AI system that analyzes a product's complete nutritional profile against 50+ health parameters, generating a personalized health score.