Recently, the emergence of artificial intelligence chatGPT seems to be bringing new crises to coaches' careers.
Asking about relevant training plans and diet plans on chatGPT, the answers received have reached a considerable level. If a certain context is added, chatGPT's excellent "thinking" and language ability can even simulate a specific tone to give emotional value.
But in fact, whether it is active contact or supervision, or immediate adjustment of training intensity based on experience and trainer performance during exercise, and offline physical assistance to prevent injuries... the mobility and flexibility of professional coaches' offline interactions are temporarily difficult to be replicated by AI.
In other words, coaches with stronger professionalism and experience still have irreplaceable importance for artificial intelligence.
First of all, AI does not have offline interactive functions. "Can AI remind you in time when your knees are hyperextended? Can AI assist you in doing the last one when you are exhausted? Can AI help you press your shoulders when you habitually shrug?"
The premise for chatGPT to provide accurate guidance is sufficient data, but in the training process, many data and training performances are difficult to quantify, and often require detailed adjustments based on the coach's immediate observation and experience. At the same time, one of the important needs for finding a professional coach is sports assistance and injury prevention. These are functions that are difficult to achieve with online AI such as chatGPT.
Secondly, chatGPT and other software are difficult to achieve the functions of active contact and supervision. At present, the relevant software basically takes answering as the main function, and it is difficult to actively send information to supervise training and actively encourage.
In many cases, trainees usually rely on the emotional value provided by private coaches to support them in completing their training plans, while human coaches who can communicate face-to-face and actively encourage them undoubtedly have greater advantages in this regard.
For coaches, whether AI is an enemy or a friend also depends on their attitude towards AI. On the one hand, the lowering of the knowledge threshold brought by it will inevitably lead to the elimination of coaches who used to be sales-oriented in the past, and put forward new requirements for the professionalism and offline interaction ability of coaches. Only by keeping up with the requirements of the AI era and learning to use artificial intelligence can we avoid being eliminated.
For example, after mastering the method of using artificial intelligence, tools such as chatGPT can be used as a professional knowledge base for coaches to learn, help answer some students' "difficult and complicated problems" and improve training plans, thereby improving work efficiency and professional level.
For students, AI coaches can lower the threshold for users to contact coaches and promote the popularization of coaching services.
It is worth mentioning that the "elimination" of some low-level coaches by AI is actually beneficial to the healthy development of the industry.
The tool is harmless, and whether AI is an enemy or a friend to the coach is still determined by the person who uses AI. chatGPT does not subvert coaches, but eliminates them.
Based on this, if professional coaches do not want to be "eliminated" in this AI era, constantly enriching and improving themselves and learning to use artificial intelligence as an aid more efficiently in sports teaching will undoubtedly become a necessity of life:
