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    Default Aaptiv, the workout app, launches a new AI-based personal trainer called Coach. Laying Off 1/3rd Of its Human Employees!

    It appears as though Aaptiv has already let go of 33% of its coaches, who were the to be the "real world" experience behind the fitness app coachin, and they have instead decided to make some changes that include less HUMAN BEINGS, LESS Overhead, MORE R.O.I.

    I am sure "Amazon" one of the main investors in the startup is pleased to hear about the changes.

    Fuck it while there at at, why dont they just unleash their fitness coaching A.I. on the rest of the industry. Hell Lets A.I. run Soacial Media Platforms on fitness, and Forums like this one, and yes it can be done. But when is enough enough?

    in at least 10 years time, and under 20 years time, all 18 wheeling big rig trucks driving across country to delivery goods to different states will all be DRIVERLESS A.I. The documentary is on netflix or Amazon and i seen these truck in action and the number of jobs we will lose to A.I. in all industries is going to shake this country to its core!

    Just wait until someone perfects the Phalanges (fingers) dextarity in robotics , as they havent yet, and thats the only reason Amazon still have humans picking from the robots who pull items. Once they are able to do this, its game over for jobs!

    I think Aaptiv had certain investors who wanted the "reordering" or restructuring"

    I found this comment insulting: In an interview ahead of today, Agarwal made it clear that the reductions were not about eliminating human coaches altogether but about adding something new to the platform as it continues to scale.

    What a load of shit!


    After raising at least $20 million last year from the likes of Amazon, Disney and Bose for a mobile app that offered workouts led by professional, human trainers, Aaptiv is now taking a tech turn. Today, the startup is beginning a pilot of a new service it calls Aaptiv Coach, an AI-based assistant that builds personalised fitness and lifestyle plans based on a user's goals, current fitness levels, eating habits and data input from external devices like smartwatches and fitness trackers.


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    Coach will mark a notable departure for the startup. Aaptiv built its name on human-led workouts produced by Aaptiv itself. (“We might the only people willing to acknowledge that we will not use AI to replace trainers,” founder and CEO Ethan Agarwal told TechCrunch last June. “The trainers create the classes and that will be always the same. That relationship and drive and the passion cannot be matched by anyone or anything.”)
    Now, while the company is not removing trainers from the platform, it will be reorienting the focus of how it delivers fitness plans to users: Coach will give users an order of what should be done, with the option of using Aaptiv workouts, or alternatively following sessions led by others, or even doing the exercise on their own, using AI to measure progress.
    That change, it should be noted, came with some personnel shifts at the company, too: earlier this year, the company laid off employees, including personal trainers, and while it would not confirm the exact amount, several tipsters suggested to us that it was around one-third of staff.
    In an interview ahead of today, Agarwal made it clear that the reductions were not about eliminating human coaches altogether but about adding something new to the platform as it continues to scale.
    Coach is being released after three years of internal development that was taking place at the same time that the company was building out the data and using it to feed and improve its algorithms. The company has to date streamed 22 million workouts across 20 countries, and all of that translates into data points that both have taught Coach, but also the startup itself about what it is that people want.
    "The first phase was spent learning about how people consume classes, where and when they work out," Agarwal said.
    One thing that it learned was that while there are definitely a small and dedicated part of the population that will carve out significant time each day for workouts, there is a larger proportion that will not, and so Coach is about trying to fit fitness into those consumers' lives.
    And maybe more importantly, the rest of how an individual leads his or her life will probably give a better picture of what she or he will need to do to achieve a desired outcome (such as lose weight, or achieve a better running time, or get stronger, or whatever it happens to be).
    "The idea is how can we help people achieve their goals, whatever they are?" he said. "If you work out three times a week for 45 minutes, that is basically two percent of your week. But there are a lot of companies out there competing for that two percent: gyms, in-home biking startups, and more. But the way we see it, is that the other 98 percent of your time is where your habits are formed, where you need to start to build structure."
    Aaptiv's approach with Coach will be to create personalised daily, weekly and monthly plans for getting to a specified goal. "No one will have the same plan," Agarwal said. For those who are already using Aaptiv, their own data will be used to start to build Coach's profile of the person. Users will be given the option to add other sources of input, and also add in more information, to further tailor the experience.
    Like many a platform, what's interesting about Coach is how its open-ended structure could be leveraged to help Coach grow.
    Today, there is already guidance on food a person should avoid or try to eat regularly, but you could imagine how one might link up the APIs from a particular appliance to inform Aaptiv's Coach more directly on what a person is eating.
    Or, you could imagine also a time when someone might even order the food she should be eating directly from the app, to be delivered by a food delivery partner.
    The commerce aspects are an interesting one to consider, given how much people spend on fitness and health already today.
    Take running shoes as an example: if you input into Coach what shoes you already own, and it's tracking where you are running and how much you weigh and so on, it will be able to reasonably determine when it's time for you to get a new pair of shoes, even if your old ones don't look like they're about to fall apart.
    All of that will not only extend the amount of time people are spending in the Aaptiv app, but potentially present revenue streams on top of the basin subscription-based one that exists today. (It's also perhaps a clue as to why Amazon is interested in the company.)
    When I covered Aaptiv's round last year, I wondered about how the model would scale as it expanded, built as it was on personal human connections. Coach provides one possible answer.
    The potential of where and how Coach might develop is one way that Aaptiv is filling out its valuation (which last year was $200 million), and also attracting attention. From what I've heard, the company has been approached by multiple interested parties hoping to tap into the audience it has built and the engagement that it's bringing to the world of health and fitness.
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    Obviously if im an investor i want the best return on my investment, but i have to say as delicate as the system is now and knowing how bad its going to get with more A.I. flooding industry after industry, certainly there have to be some investors out there who want to put their money behind a startup that may very well be a tech based app type company, i would hope the number of human jobs behind the scenes in of consideration, and if its and you decide to put your money into a startup that boasts so many real world human bieng jobs will be created , in this case Coaches, trainers, schedulers, IDK, my point it, if that was a deciding factor, or selling point for my investment, and the company turns around and says hey we are going to restructure things, 33% less humans beings, but dont think of it as anything other then the customers benefit.

    HORSE Shit lmao
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    I really don't see how an AI trainer could work. An AI just simply cannot foresee all the different aspects of different people, all the subtle complexities that a human can pick up. I'd say just wait until we see all the lawsuits suing the company because an AI caused someone to be injured.

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    I do, I mean I do see A.I. Being able to pick up on every little subtlety no matter complexity , and then being able to prescribe the proper training solution or diet or training.

    Thats obviously just just my opinion versus yours , but when you get right down to it after that A.I. Has trained enough people I believe it’ll be able to find the precise anomaly causing stalled gains or fat loss etc... and likely do it better than us once it runs through enough real world problems for said issue

    God I hope your right though brutha!

    There are are no less than 3 new documentaries out about A.I. Moving so fast that they can’t get the word out fast enough to people that it’s time to re-educate ourselves.

    Theres non non profits out there now teaching coding to adults and the enrollment is backed up for years

    if you want a good scare , go watch the documentary on Netflix or amazon , I think it’s a VICE presentation , the HBO GUYS

    ITS Scared me

    the Indian guy doing the interviews was a far left liberal weeny , so be prepared for his two cents , but he quickly makes a fool of himself by saying , the world is changing and AI is going to disrupt us into a 3rd world country , he says which could be true. He then says “if your not already rich , or not a white man living in America then your in trouble . Because you know us white men got no worries so this issue won’t affect us.

    Fast forward two minutes, all the people he invited to see if they were worried about the trucking AI or AI in general ruining jobs, well you guessed it they were ALL WHITE MEN

    LMAO , I mean you can’t make this shit up! The guys a moron , but the topic and industries leading AI are scary
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    Don’t forget we now have like dozens of quantum computers built! And the run away threshold is only 200 quantum computers working simultaneously, at which point it’ll have every answer to every question, as well as answers to questions we haven’t even thought of yet .

    itll be able to predict future events within some insanely high percentage of likelihood

    hell companies like Charles schwab and every other big investment house is running A.I. Learning on the go algorithms, and predicting, then buying and selling stock , or maybe I think commodities. And it’s always returning profits lol

    So it’s time to devise a solid year long plan, and rob a bank to set yourself up lol. At least do it before it’s the number one crime committed in this country! Lol
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