Uses that have changed well. If conversational robots such as Chatgpt were mainly used for work or school at the beginning, they are also exploited for more personal purposes, as stressed by a report published at the end of March.
Directed by Marc Zao-Sanders, an author who also directs a technology learning company, artificial intelligence allows some in particular to lead a healthier life. Having, among other things, consulted the Reddit and Quora online forums for its report, discovered testimonies of users who use such purposes.
An accessible and economical tool
For a healthier life, many users intend to eat better. In other words, follow a diet to lose weight. Therefore, they use chatgpt and other tools to create a diet.
“I discovered that the use of chatgpt to plan my diet and my shopping list eliminated one of my greatest obstacles to the execution of a dryer,” said the influencer Simone Sharice, while beginning her first dryer after having children.
Not having time to plan their meals or even make purchases, he had the idea of trusting this to Chatbot OpenAi, which created a diet for his dry period of “12 weeks of unprocessed food, respecting the intake of planned calories and consuming at least 225 grams of proteins per day.”
They are not the only ones that have the advantages of AI for the creation of a diet. Internet users also show on YouTube how they used chatgpt for this purpose.
They use the AI ”because it is accessible to hand,” explains Raphaël Gruman, a nutritionist dietetist, in Tech & Co., but, if AI is easy to use and less expensive than a professional, this type of use can be dangerous, he warns.
A potentially inadequate and dangerous diet
Although IA trusts scientific data to generate diets, they may not adapt to the person because it does not think about mentioning all the necessary information.
And as Tech & CO pointed out, tools such as Chatgpt do not even take into account basic information such as age, which is an important criterion because a 20 -year -old should not eat as a 60 -year -old person, for example. However, it was enough to ask the Chatbot to generate a diet for a loss of five kilos, indicating the weight, size and level of physical activity to do so.
Health, weight, history … as many parameters as nutritionists take the time to take into account before offering a diet that best suits the person, unlike AI. However, this lack of information can be dangerous.
Ai useful with a theoretical basis
Another problem: These tools can also create a diet for a weight loss target too fast. “Its objective is clear: losing 5 kg in a month while maintaining its muscle mass. This represents a loss of around 1.25 kg per week, a caloric deficit of around 1,100 calories per day, which is ambitious, but possible in the short term with rigor,” for example, said chatgpt when asked to create a diet to go 57 to 52 kg in a month.
A “too fast” weight loss, however, judges Raphaël Gruman, and that a health professional would not offer. “In addition, it will depend on where you leave because if you have 120 kg and you have 40 kg to lose, lose 5 kg in a month I don’t think delusional. But if you weigh 60 kg and want to go down to 55 kg, it would be too fast,” said the nutritionist.
If it is likely to offer a diet that is not adequate, it can still be useful. According to Raphaël Gruman, it could be used to establish daily menus of “theoretical” food programs.
It would be enough, for example, to ask ChatgPT with an idea of lunch dish as a theoretical basis “150 g of protein, 200 g of vegetables, dairy and fruits.” The chatbot could offer eating “a rib steak with green beans, and yogurt and strawberries in the dessert”, advances to the nutritionist, and added that it is on the personalized side of the AI.
But she is not yet personalized enough according to him. That is why its use for a diet can be risky for health. “It is not personalized enough and there is not enough control,” said Raphaël Gruman, saying that one day it could be used in addition to nutritionists.
Source: BFM TV
