I will outsource my cycling related decision making to ChatGPT 😎
Starting today, I'm beginning an experiment, which I expect to be very interesting. I will leave the planning of my daily nutrition and training activities to ChatGPT!
Illustration generated by PeakD Ai Prompt
For those who don't know, I'm very physically active, but lately I've been running low on inspiration so my fitness has stagnated. I tried to motivate myself with a mantra - one activity every day, and I was doing well for a couple of months. But then there was a storm at work, personal commitments suddenly multiplied, the weather turned bad and everything went south, if you know what I mean.
I was recently talking with a couple of friends about unconventional uses of artificial intelligence. I use ChatGPT daily as a search tool and programming aid. I almost don't do searches in the standard way anymore, I leave them all to ChatGPT. I've even done ad searches for some rare bike models that I'm interested in and just open that prompt in ChatGPT every once in a while and ask it to repeat the searches. Super simple.
Professionally, AI has become an indispensable tool for me when programming. It's far from impossible without it, but a prompt like 'here's a json file, make me a class with methods' saves so much typing that I simply can't describe it. And there were also a couple of extremely fruitful bug-finding sessions, which would have been very difficult to locate so quickly without the help of AI. Especially one related to dirty read on the sql base, which I don't know if I would have ever discovered on my own, because optimizing server clusters and hosted databases is not my area of expertise.
Well, to shorten the digression, during that conversation the topic of using ChatGPT as a psychologist to solve personal problems related to relationships, personal fears, motivation... all that know-yourself crap that we need so much in today's life came up. My friend told me that she has been having regular psychological sessions with ChatGPT for months, using voice capabilities for communication, and that she feels better and better from session to session. I'm talking about a person who ran away from an abusive family, lived on the edge of poverty, and overcame a marriage with an alcoholic who attempted suicide in front of her. You can guess that her PTSD list is quite extensive.
In light of those conversations, as of today, I'm letting ChatGPT make the decisions about when, what and how much to eat, when to do exercises, which and how intensely to train. Today was the first test day and so far I am satisfied. ChatGPT recognized that today we went too far with cutting calories and offered to compensate for it in the evening. It recognized the Garmin files from today's bike ride quite well and did good analysis. After the ride and during the work day, he gave me a great list of stretching and relaxation exercises according to my work and activities. It remains to feed him the history of my activities in the coming days so that he can better assess my physical abilities and correct the exercise plan.
Stay tuned for this little experiment of mine, I'll be posting updates and details over the coming months, most likely weekly. Greetings from me and the (for now still 😉) friendly AI ChatGPT.
PS. In keeping with the AI theme of the post, I created an illustration for it using the PeakD prompt to generate illustrations. Nice isn't it :)