What happens when you turn your life over to an AI assistant?

Gemini (archive audio): Key body weight exercises, squat, stand with your feet shoulder width apart, lower your hips as if you were sitting in a chair, keeping your back straight and chest. Go as low as you can comfortably.

Michael Calore: Lunges for each leg, three sets of 10, table, three sets holding for 30 to 60 seconds, which is torture. Glute bridges, three sets of 15 reps. And then we talk about progressive overload and we talk about rest days and all that stuff, which is great. And then I said, “OK, I don’t know how to do a dip. Can you show me how to do a dip?” And he presented me with a bunch of videos, five videos.

Lauren Goode: YouTube, presumably?

Michael Calore: Yes, they were YouTube videos. Two of the links were exactly the same, but I watched all the videos and said, “OK, I feel like I can do a dip now.” to burn So I feel that’s pretty good.

Lauren Goode: It’s pretty big, actually.

Michael Calore: Yes. The only thing that was strange is that I did a Google search and found exactly the same information from a couple of different places. And aside from the video, I don’t know where Gemini got any of this information. I don’t even know where the recipes came from. Everything was presented to me as “That’s what Gemini says.”

Lauren Goode: No sourcing.

Michael Calore: No sourcing. And I tapped into everything, and I didn’t see any good sourcing.

Lauren Goode: And presumably the man put together those workout plans or wrote about those recipes. And this has been published and I’m sorry, but your infinitesimal bits of data have now been cut and added to some recipe, and you have no idea where it came from.

Michael Calore: Julienne.

Lauren Goode: That’s right.

Zoë Schiffer: OK, so will you stop with this? Are you going to continue to use it for this purpose, or did you feel like a one-and-done experiment?

Michael Calore: Honestly, the workout regimen is pretty solid. I will continue to do so.

Lauren Goode: Nice.

Michael Calore: And as for recipes, I have so many cookbooks and so many years of experience making food for myself that I absolutely do not need to make this quinoa salad again, Lauren, unless you want me to and give you some of him

Lauren Goode: I’ve had other meals you’ve made, and I think I might suggest those next time.

Zoë Schiffer: So diplomatic.

Michael Calore: OK, great.

Lauren Goode: But thank you, I appreciate you.

Michael Calore: So I said that for me, as a person who understands me and understands my needs, it really wasn’t that big of a help. The workout was great. I could have found that without Gemini 2.O, but if someone who is new to this or someone has a lot of questions, or if someone is thinking about making these kinds of lifestyle changes, then he gave a great advice.