World Health Organization introduces AI-powered health assistant

Introduction

Its interesting to see how fast AI is growing both in popularity and use-cases. Even more impressive is the fact that major international organizations are now building prototypes to suit a particular need or solve a problem. This time around, I bring you update about how the World Health Organization is implementing generative AI to help people around the world improve their health. They called this AI - S.A.R.A.H.

S.A.R.A.H. will deliver much needed health tips to anyone that interacts with it. In this presentation, learn how S.A.R.A.H. does its work and helps to improve the lives of everyone. Also, you may want to try out this WHO-endorsed AI assistance and provide needed feedback to make it work better than it is doing now.

Why S.A.R.A.H. and how it works

S.A.R.A.H. was launched as part of efforts to prepare for World Health day which holds every 7th April of the year. For this year, the team selected was 'My Health, My Right'. Before the day arrived for this health awareness event, WHO announced a brand new digital tool powered by AI called S.A.R.A.H. The aim is to provide a fresh platform to help people around the world access AI-powered tips for better living.

S.A.R.A.H. is a generative AI focused entirely on answering health questions and providing empathetic responses. Users would be able to have meaningful discussions relating to health matters with S.A.R.A.H. and receive the kind of helpful responses as if they were coming from a healthcare agent.

Beyond just providing health tips and answers, S.A.R.A.H. was also designed to help raise the level of awareness concerning health rights. Everyone deserves better health and should have access to quality healthcare. S.A.R.A.H. would make sure that its users understands that. And when they face any medical conditions, S.A.R.A.H. educate users about the rights they have to choose, accept or reject certain medical treatments or procedures. This aligns with the theme of this year's World Health Day. There is more to the capabilities built into S.A.R.A.H.

S.A.R.A.H., also known as Sarah, has the ability to support people in developing better understanding of risk factors for some of the leading causes of death in the world, including cancer, heart disease, lung disease, and diabetes. She can help people access up-to-date information on quitting tobacco, being active, eating a healthy diet, and de-stressing among other things. source

S.A.R.A.H. tries to mimic a natural human response in its interactions. Its impressive that this AI uses a generative language models which does not just work based on already-made data silo. Instead, it learns from the inputs and try to return responses that are as close to the prompts as possible - just very similar to how a human would respond.

Key Capabilities

S.A.R.A.H. is a multi-language AI model. Users that are interacting with it could choose in which language to hold the conversation. Some of the major international languages supported include Portuguese, French, Espanol, English, Hindu and many others. Once a language is selected, then the interaction with S.A.R.A.H. could begin.

S.A.R.A.H. is not a general topic AI model. Its is trained to provide guides on health matters such as nutrition and healthy foods, Smoking and Tobacco, Exercise, mental health and other health related subjects. The subjects are not just limited to these. It still covers issues related to health rights of a person with regards to treatments, medication and methodologies.

Just as many other generative language models, S.A.R.A.H. accepts text inputs for the interaction. However, the model was built to allow speech interactions too. So when starting S.A.R.A.H., the user could choose which mode of input to use. Text could be used. But, if you wish to speak to S.A.R.A.H., you can do so. Before S.A.R.A.H. prepares the environment for the conversation, the user would be prompted to allow the AI to switch one the camera and microphone of your the device to be used. This way, they are able to speak to S.A.R.A.H. directly and interact as if in a human speech conversation.

A call for use and feedback

The World Health Organization considers the ethic implications of AI use in health. Hence, it is inviting all stakeholders in the industry to try using S.A.R.A.H. and provide relevant feedback that could be used to improve the model. S.A.R.A.H. has been deployed successfully under a previous different project. Thus, WHO believes that with further use and refinements it will deliver important health tips to users that would interact with the model.

While S.A.R.A.H. is designed to provide needed suggestions on health topics, it does not replace a healthcare professional. If you are not feeling fine, its best to consult your doctor or other professionals in health field. WHO invites you to try S.A.R.A.H. and provide feedback to improve it. If you wish to try it now, click here to start. Once you are done interacting with S.A.R.A.H, why not fill out this survey and share your experience to make it work better.

AI continues to improve all aspects where it has been deployed. Now it is making medicine and healthcare delivery better. As it improves, more applications of it would be found across all industries.

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