Im Out of Shape. Will an AI Trainer Improve My Fitness? [Video]

“I need help getting into shape. Can I use AI as a personal trainer?”

—Sweat Breaker

Dear Sweat,

Nope. The most popular AI tools, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude, can’t actually help you trim down that waistline or make your pecs look plump. Sure, Claude can draft a decent nutrition plan, and ChatGPT can tell you which dumbbell exercises to start with, but basic Google searches could already do that a decade ago. Yet here we both are, in worse shape than we’d like.

I have been getting a bit fat myself; I’m in my thirties and still gorge on food as though I have a teenager’s metabolism. Far too often, I stress eat Taco Bell in the WIRED break room before taking a luxurious, carb-induced power nap. It’s an embarrassingly bad habit, and no amount of annoying AI-powerednotifications reminding me to eat right or personally generated workout tips will snap me out of these unhealthy patterns. The responsibility …