Ryan Haines / Android Authority
I’ve lost almost 9 pounds (4 kg) so far, my upper abs are starting to show, and I just generally feel a lot better, all thanks to Gemini. The chatbot has helped me come up with a detailed training as well as a diet plan and has guided me through all the issues I’ve run into during my fitness journey that kicked off back in September.
I wrote about my experience using Gemini as a personal fitness coach in November, and it was mostly positive up until that point. However, things quickly took a turn for the worse. The chatbot went from a proper fitness coach I relied on daily to nothing more than a distraction that caused more harm than good.
Would you trust an AI chatbot to be your primary fitness and diet coach? 5 votes Yes, it's better and cheaper than a human. 20 % Absolutely not. I don't trust robots. 40 % I'm on the fence about it. 40 %
A case of digital amnesia
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority
I wanted to keep all the data about my fitness journey in one place, so I had a single chat open in Gemini that I used daily. The problem is that the longer the conversation went on for, the more issues I encountered.
Gemini kept forgetting things. It forgot my training plan altogether, so when I asked it to show me the workout scheduled for a specific day, it just started hallucinating and gave me a random one that wasn’t aligned with my goals or the fitness equipment I have available.
I tried telling it that the workout suggested wasn’t the one in my original training plan and that it should try to pull up the right one. It tried, but failed. Over and over again. The only way to find my complete training plan was to scroll back through months of conversations and try to locate it manually, which isn’t really how I want to spend my afternoons.
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