Appears in Applied Intelligence the newspaper I made for the AI Policy and Governance Working Group London workshop. You can still get a copy of the newspaper at the Near Future Laboratory shop.

The On Injury Predictive Forecast Implantable is a speculative design fiction artifact that imagines a future where athletic performance and injury prevention are enhanced through implantable inference engine that evaluates, processes, and assesses using predictive intelligence models, derived from the principles of LLMs. This speculative fictional product is designed to provide real-time insights into joint injury risks, using data from personal health and fitness tracking devices, as well as analytics from other users engaged in similar physical activities. "Got dropped off by the janky time machine in a near future wherein athletic performance has tripped over itself and landed in a world of implantable large language models.

Consider this: intelligences of some description are now in prognosticating contrivances — a new category of consumer electronics. These are things that we (or some of us) can implant into our bodies. We have no idea how they work any more than we know how LLMs work. But we know they work. And we know that they are now in our bodies. Inferencing performance, predictive analytics, and somehow sensing across an embedding of billions of aggregated data points, the On® Intelligent Injury Predictive Forecast Implantable™ provides after-action assessments of performance-to-injury risk analytics that can be used to inform training and recovery.

((Sounds like a Paul Verhoven-style pre-ad for a cyborg movie, but not necessarily.))

Parenthetically, a few months ago I did a trial of the Limitless AI device. It's a wearable — not an implantable — that listens to you, your conversations, and interactions with others. And then it provides an interface that summarizes the main themes or whatever of your conversations. A bit like the listening personal assistants that people have join them on Zoom calls and the like. So I'm trying this thing and it's giving me these morning summaries of the day before and I'm really sensing that it is 'tuned' for a particular sort of person who wants a tight organization on their day and behaviors. One summary the day after a couple hours long ideation session was telling me that it might benefit me to be more organized in discussions and not wander too much as to the topic. So — no. That's completely wrong. In that context, the purpose was to wander and find our way through an open-ended discussion where we did not know where we were going, and were happy for that. In another instance, I had inadvertently left the Limitless AI device on, and it was sitting near the living room where I was watching the screwball comedy Step Brothers because my nephews were all, like..'Unc. You gotta watch Step Brothers..I can't believe you haven't seen Step Brothers. So I watched it. And the next morning the Limitless AI device was berating me for being so aggressive towards my parents, and congratulated me on a successful event at the Catalina Wine Mixer.