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Do you have any experience with an AI diabetes app?

fmonday007

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Hi. I'm T1 LADA and using Freestyle Libre 2 Plus. I use a nutrition tracker to manage my diet. I have just downloaded an app in the hope that the AI will make my insulin usage more efficient and help reduce hypers and hypos. I'm testing the app with the 14 day free trial. I would love to hear from you if you have any experience of an AI app, which will help me decide if I choose to continue and use the paid version.
 
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It’s not one I’ve heard of, or heard forum members talking about @fmonday007

Do you know who is behind it?

Unfortunately I am a little fatigued by the buzzword AI, and it immediately makes me thing that any suggestions made but the software are likely to be either blandly obvious, or possibly even dangerously misguided.

AI seems to struggle far more than might hope it would at the moment.
 
Hi and welcome.

I too would be very dubious of using AI to support me with my diabetes management. Diabetes is very individual depending on so many different lifestyle and biological factors that the AI can only take into consideration what you input into it. If I input all the things that I consider when I adjust my doses, I would be spending more time inputting the data than I would making the decisions, so I wouldn't consider it worthwhile even without my mistrust of AI or the idea of AI reliance.
Gaining knowledge and understanding of my own diabetes and my body's responses to different insulins and situations like exercise and illness and hormones and occasionally alcohol and heat and exercise has been key to good diabetes management and I can't really see how AI can deal with so many variables.
Maybe I am just an old fuddy duddy, but I think people will lose potentially life saving skills by relying too heavily on technology. Being in tune with your own body and all the elements which affect your BG levels is key for many of us. This forum has been instrumental in me understanding this and learning to manage my diabetes well.
 
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