With the spread of large AI language models (LLMs) that answer almost all of our requests, comes a question: Can I use an AI agent as a personal trainer? OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini or Anthropic’s Claude are designed to give you “advice” they find on the internet, but they can’t help you reduce your waist or make your pecs look like a championship.
Sure, Claude can put together a decent nutritional plan, and ChatGPT can tell you which dumbbell exercises to start your routine with, but these basic searches aren’t something new, they’ve been around the internet for a decade. I have to confess that I am in worse shape than I would like: I have gained weight; I’m over thirty years old and I still gorge myself on food like I have the metabolism of a teenager, but I understand that chatbots They can’t do much for my physical condition.
Too often I stress out by eating Taco Bell in the break room at WIRED before taking a luxurious carb-induced power nap. It’s an embarrassingly bad habit, and no amount of AI notifications reminding me to “eat fruits and vegetables” or giving me custom-generated training tips are going to get me out of these unhealthy patterns. The answer to making notable changes in my lifestyle and improving my diet lies solely with me. I am the only one who inhabits this body and the only one who has the power to change it.
Let’s face it: We are not robots
Thinking about bodies and enhancement, having an organic form of life, that is, a bag of bones that you can move around in and use to process the world, makes us very different from a faceless, unit-powered robot. graphics processing unit (GPU), whose physical form is distributed throughout the labyrinthine corridors of a data center.
Although robots can make solid exercise suggestions based on the statistical average of everything posted on the internet, an algorithm has no first-hand knowledge of a human being’s physical limits. They have never broken out in a sweat on the treadmill, endured a full leg workout while hungover, nor achieved new performance records to the point of muscle failure.
Do you know who has experienced it firsthand? Your gym’s personal trainer. You must pay for their services, and many times they are not cheap, but a coach can give you a routine with a series of exercises indicated for your body type, monitor your form and offer you guidance to complement the movements in a safe and effective way. Even the most expensive gadgets like computer vision tools that “monitor your breathing and count your reps” won’t achieve the same level of motivation and performance as paying an athletic human to monitor your workout in a room full of other gym rats. .
Article originally published in WIRED. Adapted by Alondra Flores.
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