I agree, medical history is probably not the sexiest reason to have AI ask questions. I think there are many more reasons; I think the Turing Test is the best metric to evaluate AIs, and current models come nowhere close. When people first meet they ask questions about their background. It would be nice if a model replicated that
I'm not debating the value of questions. I'm debating the value of feeding it to advertisers, especially since LLMs can infer much deeper insights about a person than a traditional assistant can with its canned capabilities and responses