Following therapeutic applications, artificial intelligence is challenging the traditional usefulness of sports coaches.
Recently, Ukrainian athlete Maksym Murasikovsky expressed his gratitude to ChatGPT for helping him win a silver medal at the Winter Paralympic Games in Milan-Cortina, Italy.
Murasikowski won a medal in the blind men’s individual biathlon event on Sunday.
Murasikowski, competing in the 2026 Winter Paralympic Games for the first time, finished seventh in the men’s sprint on Saturday. Although he didn’t win a medal in the first race, he still has three competitions left to try and win.
He won a bronze medal at the 2023 World Championships and has won multiple medals at the World Cup.
Is ChatGPT a good trainer?
In an interview after his win, Murasikowski credited his success to ChatGPT.
He said, “For the past six months, I’ve been training with ChatGPT. It wasn’t just tactics. It was half of my training plan, motivation, etc. So it was a huge amount of my overall training. I used it as a psychologist, a coach, and sometimes as a doctor.”
“I can give ChatGPT a lot of praise. I believe in it, it’s a revolutionary technology,” he added.
When asked why he leverages AI for coaching, the 25-year-old expressed a desire to do more than traditional training with humans. Therefore, he chose ChatGPT as his trainer.
Is AI a threat to coaching jobs?
After taking over various roles in different industries, many now believe that AI will soon disrupt jobs in the sports industry.
But Murasikowski said coaches don’t have to worry about their jobs.
While answering a question about AI’s potential impact on the usefulness of traditional coaches, he said, “It’s not going to last the full five to 10 years, but it’s definitely going to be part of it.”
