Had a nice chat with GPT-4.5 the other day about fat metabolism and related topics. Then I asked it for an optimal nutrition an exercise plan for a hypothetical person matching either I or my wife’s age, height, weight, gender, and overall distribution of body fat. It came back detailed plans, very different for each of us, and very different from anything I’ve seen in a published source, but which extremely closely matches the sets of disparate diets, eating routines, exercise routines, and supplements we’d stumbled upon as “things that seem to make us feel better when we do them” over the course of about 7 years of self-experimentation. There were also a few simple additional suggestions for me that I’d never thought could really matter that it turned out, when I tried them, do.
On one hand I didn’t learn anything “new” except some implementation details (timing and dosage of supplements and pairings of foods, for example) and the value of combining all the pieces instead of trying them one at a time. On the other hand, it found and validated and gave good citations for a bunch of things I’m confident were not explicit or implicit in my prompts and which do not match advice I’d ever received from any “expert” source.
Had a nice chat with GPT-4.5 the other day about fat metabolism and related topics. Then I asked it for an optimal nutrition an exercise plan for a hypothetical person matching either I or my wife’s age, height, weight, gender, and overall distribution of body fat. It came back detailed plans, very different for each of us, and very different from anything I’ve seen in a published source, but which extremely closely matches the sets of disparate diets, eating routines, exercise routines, and supplements we’d stumbled upon as “things that seem to make us feel better when we do them” over the course of about 7 years of self-experimentation. There were also a few simple additional suggestions for me that I’d never thought could really matter that it turned out, when I tried them, do.
On one hand I didn’t learn anything “new” except some implementation details (timing and dosage of supplements and pairings of foods, for example) and the value of combining all the pieces instead of trying them one at a time. On the other hand, it found and validated and gave good citations for a bunch of things I’m confident were not explicit or implicit in my prompts and which do not match advice I’d ever received from any “expert” source.
Impressive performance by the chatbot.
Indeed. Major quality change from prior models.