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Re: Cognitive AI for ADHD

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Post by overnight5349 »

The entire content of this website is six bullet points and three or four sentences. You really need to do a lot better than that. It looks like the cheapest, shadiest, slapped together "I hooked ChatGPT into google calendar" project, same as all the other "AI" projects coming out these days.

You've offered no compelling reason to use this, nor explained what it does or how it can help me except in the vaguest of terms.

It seems to be an effort to game you into being a more productive worker, and not actually helping you live with ADHD.

Additionally, while I very desperately want an AI personal assistant to help me manage my ADHD, there is absolutely no way in hell I'd ever use something that doesn't run on my hardware in my house that I physically control. Such an assistant would know literally everything about me, and that is not something anyone should ever trust to a company.

Re: Cognitive AI for ADHD

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Post by thereisnojesus »

btilly wrote: post #44
mrcncpt wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never heard this take before but it makes a lot of sense. Do you mind clarifying the kind of emotional tools you refer to?

Mostly a lot of mind-body stuff to develop self-awareness, and adjusting my life, routines, and priorities to fit the needs that I find are not being met. I can ramble on for ages about it. But it is also a highly personal journey - what works for me won't for the next person and vice versa. However KNOWING that it is important is huge.

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Re: Cognitive AI for ADHD

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Post by fragmede »

overnight5349 wrote: post #61

The entire content of this website is six bullet points and three or four sentences. You really need to do a lot better than that. It looks like the cheapest, shadiest, slapped together "I hooked ChatGPT into google calendar" project, same as all the other "AI" projects coming out these days. You've offered no compelling reason to use this, nor explained what it does or how it can help me except in the vaguest of ter…

> It seems to be an effort to game you into being a more productive worker, and not actually helping you live with ADHD.

Where ADHD leads to problems being productive despite having the intelligence to do the job, and that jobs tend to, y'know, fire you if you're not productive, and you go homeless without money, which you get from having a job, isn't helping ADHD people be productive the same thing?

As far as your trust issues go, that's for each individual to decide. Some people are able to see past their cynicism and derive value from the products companies make.

Re: Cognitive AI for ADHD

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Post by overnight5349 »

shostack wrote: post #15
chrsig wrote: post #7

I've been actively trying to find ways to offload tasks to software assistants -- I've slowly been getting a bit more comfortable using siri. My first impression is that the results tracking will just be a report of failures and wind up causing disinterest in the application as a whole. I also am concerned that the AI may wind up placing demands on me that I may think I want in one moment, but don't wind up engaging…

I personally want something at the level of Samantha from Her for managing my life. When I think about the data inputs needed to have an AI that effective, it's made me increasingly aware at how much I lack from tools like Google Tasks and reminders etc. for keeping track of all the things I need to do. It's easy to have them slip off the list and be forgotten about, or not be able to do small things to move them ahe…

I desperately want this. But yes, the amount of data required is insane. Just off the top of my head: - browser history - SMS and call transcriptions - calendar - passive audio stream from my phone - interactions on social media - my diary - my work, or at least commit messages

It's a lot, and you'd need a pretty clever model in the middle of it to make sense of.

I don't know much about AI today, but I get the sense that you could string together a bunch of different systems today to achieve this, but no one has done it yet.

Also, if the dataset is exposed, it'd be an unthinkable privacy breach. Something like this has to run on dedicated hardware that you own. Feeding every intimate detail of your entire life into the cloud should be completely untenable.

Re: Cognitive AI for ADHD

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Post by simplemts »

btilly wrote: post #13

I have moderately severe ADHD, and have good reasons to not use medication. My first response to this is that it solves problems that I don't have, and ignores the ones I do have. Organizing my day on paper is trivial. I'm also married to someone with a good partnership, and we offload different types of tasks to each other. She might enjoy having software assistants to be more productive, but I don't need that. I ha…

You nailed it on the end for me as an Adult with ADHD diagnosed in my 30s.

Motivation has been my biggest A-Ha with ADHD and trying my absolute best to align what I do with what I want to do otherwise I am setting myself up for failure and others for disappointment with me.

Re: Cognitive AI for ADHD

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Post by pmarreck »

btilly wrote: post #13

I have moderately severe ADHD, and have good reasons to not use medication. My first response to this is that it solves problems that I don't have, and ignores the ones I do have. Organizing my day on paper is trivial. I'm also married to someone with a good partnership, and we offload different types of tasks to each other. She might enjoy having software assistants to be more productive, but I don't need that. I ha…

> but I don't need that. I have her.

Yeah, about that. I fell into the same trap. Now I have someone who thinks her relative superpower makes her more mature and me more infantile even though she grew up dyslexic and still cannot distinguish to/too/two (and even though my income, while more highly variable than hers, is also far, far greater). Apparently it's fairly common for this to very negatively affect relationships. How in the heck did you manage that?? (assuming you did)

Re: Cognitive AI for ADHD

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Post by viraptor »

lacrimacida wrote: post #29
thewataccount wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From my experience with ADHD - calenders are excruciatingly hard to use consistently. Either it "takes too much time" or I completely forget I was trying to use a calender. Having a tool that can automatically add items from infodumps/todolists would be useful. I don't udnerstand the chrome extension part though.

Keep an notepad file open; only when you remeber add stuff to it. At some point it will become a hardened habit and honestly much better than some AI crutch. There are better uses for AI in my opinion..

> Keep an notepad file open; only when you remeber add stuff to it.

"Keep using X, remember to interact with it" is exactly the problems people struggle with in the first place. This is not an actionable advice on its own.

Re: Cognitive AI for ADHD

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Post by thereticent »

jasoncurry wrote: post #2

Hi, we just started building a few weeks ago but have about 700 beta users. We are building the most effective specialized AI for ADHD. We're in private beta but feel free to see our site that links to our Chrome extension and try it out if it sounds like something you need.

What are the cognitive assessments, and what normative data set do they use?
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