Wired for Symbiosis: How AI Turns Wearables Into Health Allies
Wearables already know how to count steps, estimate sleep, flash warnings, and occasionally shame their owners into standing up. Useful, yes. Symbiotic, not quite. The gap is not that today’s devices lack sensors. The gap is that most wearable health systems still behave like polite data loggers: they collect signals, process them through fairly rigid pipelines, and hand the user an output that may or may not survive contact with sweat, movement, noise, ageing, illness, mood, medication, and the small inconvenience that humans are not factory-calibrated machines. ...