Healthify now surpasses human accuracy with AI, claims CEO Tuhar Vashisht | Technology news

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The recently launched SNAP 2.0 sets a new benchmark, with the ability to recognize more than a million foods worldwide with greater accuracy than humans. “Today we surpass human accuracy. So if you just take a photo, we will track it for you in one shot,” says Vashisht.

“We were the first in the world to develop a consumer-facing AI solution in 2019. At that time, there were no other consumer-facing AI solutions at scale,” says Vashisht, who has led the company since its inception in 2014. says this combination of cutting-edge technology and human expertise has enabled Healthify to achieve remarkable results in terms of impact and scale. “This year we will probably ultimately help lose about 10 million kilos of weight… which, adjusted for risk, equates to almost a million lives saved,” he tells indianexpress.com.

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The company has been working with AI innovations in the field of health coaching from the very beginning. Vashisht claims that Healthify was the first in the world to develop a consumer-facing AI solution, but its virtual coaching assistant Ria, introduced in 2023, was a game-changer thanks to its integration of powerful language models such as GPT-4. “Ria 2.0 is much smarter, much more capable. And we’re working with several people, including OpenAI, to make that possible.”

Talking about challenges, Vashisht says overcoming hurdles like personalization and proactivity have been crucial to Ria’s success. “It’s easy enough to build a bot where you can ask questions, but it’s hard for an AI to give you proactive insights… This isn’t that easy to do, and this can only be done if you have You have enormous amounts of data.”

Ria 2.0 is trained to provide highly personal and contextual guidance. You can get generic answers on ChatGPT and other platforms, but Vashisht says the real challenge is building personalized solutions because you have to scrutinize all the data.

Achieving this feat required years of data collection, model tuning, and integration of advanced vision AI such as GPT-4 Vision. “Through a combination of a lot of data personalization… all the years of work we’ve done on open source solutions… and combined with the GPT vision, our ability to accurately recognize your food is sky high.”

Healthify is now doubling down on AI to create fully autonomous health agents that can integrate seamlessly with different ecosystems. “We hope that Ria 3.0 will be a truly autonomous agent… (it) will also be integrated with the ecosystem… to be able to book consultations for you, book gym classes for you, connect you to the right meditation rooms for the evenings, or to be able to improve and improve your sleep, etc.

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Vashisht is confident in the potential of AI to democratize access to quality healthcare in India. “India will make a leap from internet to mobile just like before. I think it will also surpass AI systems much faster. India in particular will need AI technologies to fundamentally democratize access to healthcare.”

When asked about concerns about AI displacing human jobs, Vashisht shares his optimism about AI’s ability to create new opportunities. For professionals in the wellness industry, such as dietitians, Vashisht sees AI as a catalyst for growth and greater opportunities with AI as a co-pilot. “I don’t think technology fundamentally takes away jobs. It does change the game. It creates new types of jobs.”