Would you respond to an app to make changes in your lifestyle? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Prediabetes can be controlled and diabetes avoided with use of an AI driven app, a new study by Nas Mathioudakis, a diabetes expert at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues has shown. The app performed just as well as human led coaching as part of a diabetes prevention program, originally developed by the CDC.

Mathioudakis: I think that the next level of this personally is a combination of reinforcement learning plus generative AI to emulate human coaching because there was a finite number of prompts that could be given through the app and it sort of starts to feel a little automated and people can tell that this is not a coach. But this AI technology has advanced so rapidly in the last five years that the prompts could essentially emulate a human coach and you might be more responsive if it sounds like a human being.          :31

Mathioudakis says even more personal and adaptive messaging may motivate people to make the range of choices needed to keep diabetes at bay. At Johns Hopkins, I’m Elizabeth Tracey.