You shouldn't be concerned just yet. Currently, companies are unable to train Large Language Models (LLMs) using your individual data, making it somewhat impossible for an LLM to be trained with the most up-to-date information. It’s likely that Whoop utilized a technology known as LangChain. To simplify, LangChain stores all your data/metrics in a large database. When you inquire about something related to your data, it searches for the relevant information in the database and uses it to prompt the LLM - it's somewhat like using the CTRL+F function to find relevant info in a document. I have experience with these technologies and can tell you that a significant drawback, and a reason why not every company adopts it, is its inability to grasp the big picture. For instance, if you asked the AI to summarize last year's data and provide recommendations, it would struggle, as it can only pull a limited amount of data at a time. For it to truly replace real coaches, it would need to be trained on your specific data, which isn’t feasible for the time being.
It's certainly interesting and now that the surface has been scratched-which it has over the last couple of years-there's no putting it back into the box, as they say. There will be good from it, and I sense, as you say, it will empower smart coaaches and practionaers in a BIG way, but it will also diminish the one between privacy and whatnot. But over the coming years, I sense the entire line that we consider "privacy" will shift massively. It's going to look very different, me thinks.
Sadly the feedback didn't sound like anything that's more precise than most blog posts out there addressing the topic. Still, curious to see what it does in the future.
I've subscribed and un-subscribed to Whoop multiple times over the past 12 months for various reasons eg. mental health, other devices, sleep difficulties wearing device but now there is an AI component to it, I am now even more convinced to keep pushing ahead with Whoop as my overall health and fitness tracker and use my Garmin watches (Epix Pro) as my workout tracker. Garmin is close in measuring the same metrics as Whoop but have you ever tried to sleep with an Epix Pro on your wrist v a Whoop strap? Whoop for simplicity in tracking sleep, HRV, recovery and strain for the win. AI is now a bonus.
Whoop oxygen saturation levels are always inaccurate compared to the finger oxymeter that is medical grade by a huge margin ! For a reason oxygen is measured from the finger and not wrist
The OpenAI is poisoned, I tried to ask about how it could help someone with autism that has different support requirements than a normal person and it returns "While WHOOP is a fitness and health coach and doesn't specialize in providing guidance on autism." But my autism is a FACTOR in how I can function and it should be part of any attempt at improving my health and fitness, it would be like saying it doesn't matter if you eat and drink as a human being in relation to your fitness or to ask a someone in a wheelchair to start running to get fit. And even worse it suggest a statical approach not an individual, even if your not in a wheelchair or has autism, everyone is slightly different, but I guess whoop is only for the "right" type of people? Gets kinda creepy thinking about it.
