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Do you ever turn to an AI for medical or health advice? We can debate the wisdom of doing so. But one pitfall is that the AI knows little or nothing about you medically. That means it can provide only generic information at best and bad information at worst.

To address that drawback, Microsoft is previewing a new service called Copilot Health. To try this, you would first share a few details about yourself and then add any medical records of your choosing. Copilot assimilates and uses all that information to field your questions. The more the AI knows about you medically, the better it can tailor its responses to you and your specific conditions, history, medications, and more.

Also: I paid Microsoft's premium Copilot agents to do my work - they were confidently bad at it