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A confident idiot is dangerous (even if he means well).
Like Chevy’s Uncle Steve, who is now forbidden within the extended family from working on anyone’s car.
The man is convinced he is a mechanic just because he attends one or two car shows a year. In reality, he knows nothing and has caused thousands of dollars in damage to several family members’ cars.
That’s why we’re excited, but also a little skeptical Cudis“Genesis smart ring.
It’s a web3 and AI-enabled fitness tracker (kind of like the Our ring), which will create AI-generated training plans for its users and reward them with crypto when they complete a workout.
We’ve written about it before. We love that it gives users full control over their health data, even going so far as to sell it anonymously if they wish.
But the newly announced AI-generated training plans?
We’re not sure we trust them as much.
Not because we think anything shameful or harmful will come of it – more that it actually will fewer more effective than a one-size-fits-all training plan.
Because AI has a tendency to hallucinate and deliver ridiculously wrong information, with pure, unadulterated confidence (see header image ☝️).
And until that can be reliably resolved, we have no choice but to tar AI and Uncle Steve with the same brush.
Regardless, the product itself is still super cool thanks to its privacy features and the fact that it pays you to work out.