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Tim Cook Knows if You’re Naughty or Nice:
Apple Wants to Use AI to Track Your Emotions

Apple is venturing further into the health and wellness sector with the development of an AI-powered health coaching service, codenamed Quartz, and the expansion of its health app to include new features aimed at tracking emotions. Tim Cook’s creepy vision of the future includes your iPhone determining your mood based on analyzing your speech, typed words, and other data from their devices.

Bloomberg reports that Apple is expanding its venture into the health and wellness market with the creation of Quartz, a health coaching service powered by artificial intelligence, and the addition of new features to its health app aimed at tracking emotions and mood.

The Quartz project aims to keep users inspired to work out, improve their eating routines, and sleep better. The AI-powered service will use data from the Apple Watch to create customized coaching programs suited to each user, according to sources familiar with the project. “The idea is to use AI and data from an Apple Watch to make suggestions and create coaching programs tailored to specific users,” said the insiders, who requested anonymity as the initiatives have not been officially announced.

...this move is a part of a larger health push by Apple. Along with Quartz, Apple also intends to release an iPad version of the iPhone health app, enabling users to view health information, like electrocardiogram results, in a more convenient format. The app’s popularity is anticipated to increase as a result of this expansion in healthcare settings, where tablets have already made headway.

The health app will soon include the tools for tracking emotions and feelings. Users of the emotion tracker’s initial iteration will be able to record their mood, respond to day-related questions, and track results over time. In the long run, Apple wants the iPhone to be able to detect a user’s mood by analyzing speech, typed words, and other data from their devices.

Elon Musk Meets with Senate Leadership to Discuss AI Regulation

Elon Musk met with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Wednesday to discuss AI regulation, a topic on which the billionaire has been vocal on.

Musk, an early investor in OpenAI who later distanced himself from the project, is a critic of mainstream AI and has frequently warned about the technology’s harmful potential.

After being spotted on Capitol Hill, the big tech CEO revealed that he had been discussing AI regulation with Sen. Schumer and various members of Congress.

“Met with @SenSchumer and many members of Congress about artificial intelligence regulation today,” said Musk on Twitter. “That which affects safety of the public has, over time, become regulated to ensure that companies do not cut corners. AI has great power to do good and evil. Better the former.”

Despite being an early supporter of OpenAI, the organization that created ChatGPT, Musk has been increasingly critical of the project, targeting OpenAI for its closeness to Microsoft and ChatGPT for its political correctness.

Musk has promised to create an alternative AI chatbot called “TruthGPT,” arguing that an AI committed to the truth would be less likely to threaten humans.