Among the numerous hardware announcements we’ve seen at CES 2025, we’ve also seen a ton of AI-related announcements. This technology will play a big part in the event going forward, and EvieAI is proof of that. This is a new chatbot from Movano that promises to be accurate 99% of the time with its answers.
We’re all familiar with the issues with AI chatbots and hallucinations. All of the chatbots on the market have a certain tendency to give flat-out wrong information when answering questions. This is pretty bad when you’re trying to rush through your college mid-term, but it’s a critical issue when you’re talking about health and medical information. This is why chatbots steer away from giving certain health advice to people. One bit of hallucinated information could mean injury or death.
However, EvieAI could be a much better alternative to other chatbots
Movano introduced its new chatbot at CES, and it seems promising. Seeing an AI chatbot from this company is a bit surprising, as it makes smart rings. Last year, it released the Evie Ring. It later released an updated version of the ring with certain improvements.
As for the chatbot, it stands apart from most other chatbots on the market. Tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Meta AI, and others are designed to be digital Swiss army knives; they’re meant to be good at everything. So, they’re trained on everything.
EvieAI, on the other hand, is only trained on medical information. That’s not all, as its training material only consists of peer-reviewed medical journals. So, Movano didn’t grab medical information from across the internet. It focused on gathering information most likely to be scientifically accurate. Peer-reviewed journals aren’t as full of contradictions as most information haphazardly sprawled across the internet.
While this is a good method, it’s not air-tight. Even peer-reviewed journals can have a fair share of contradicting information, but it’s much less prevalent. Also, Movano updates the information each month to include fresh information.
Using this method, the company says that EvieAI can achieve 99% accuracy with its answers. That’s nothing to sneeze at. The thing about this chatbot is that it won’t reach outside of the data it’s been trained on. More importantly, it won’t give you an answer if it doesn’t have the information. It will tell you if it doesn’t know. This greatly reduces its chances of giving you inaccurate information.
There are still limitations
Even with its high degree of accuracy, Movano still doesn’t allow EvieAI to give you any sort of diagnosis or treatment information. It won’t prescribe you any medication or tell you what to do if you have a condition. In fact, its main task is to ask rather than tell.
If you say something like, “I think I have a cold”, EvieAI will ask you what sorts of symptoms you have. It will gather information about what you’re feeling and try to steer the conversation in the right direction to help you confirm what you think. It’s not meant to be a replacement for a doctor.
Privacy
Privacy is one of the biggest issues with AI technology. That’s especially true when it comes to medical information. Movano promises to follow the standard encryption practices and that it will periodically delete conversation data.
This is important, and it actually ties into one neat vision that the company has. Movano hopes to, one day, be able to incorporate data gathered from the Evie Ring into EvieAI. We don’t think that the company wants to send your heart rate data up to any data servers. Rather, we believe that, if you ask it a question about your health in general, it will pull the data it gathered from the ring to help answer the question.
Imagine asking the chatbot, “Am I at risk of a heart attack?”, and having it pull the data it gathered and give you an answer. That’s only one speculated use case. It could be completely different if that feature ever launches. In any case, EvieAI is rolling out in a beta form for Evie Ring users starting on January 8th.
