March 10 (Reuters) – Ukrainian Maksym Murashkovskyi credited artificial intelligence with helping him win a silver medal at the Milan Cortina Winter Paralympic Games, calling ChatGPT a “revolutionary technology” after finishing runner-up in the biathlon event on Sunday. Murashkovskyi, a bronze medalist at the 2023 world championships, was edged out by China’s Dang Hesong to narrowly take gold.

Silver medalist Maksym Murashkovskyi and guide Vitaliy Trush of the Ukrainian team.
Silver medalist Maksym Murashkovskyi and guide Vitaliy Trush of the Ukrainian team.

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“For the past six months, I have been training with ChatGPT,” Murashkovskyi, 25, told reporters. “It wasn’t just about tactics. It was half of my training plan, motivation, etc. So it represented a huge volume of all my training. I used it as a psychologist, coach and sometimes as a doctor.”

He added that AI could eventually replace some of the work done by human coaches.

“Not completely for five or ten years. But partly, definitely,” he said. “I believe in it, it is a revolutionary technology.” Ukraine has so far won 10 medals at this year’s Paralympic Games.

(Reporting by Karan Prashant Saxena in New Delhi; Editing by Kate Mayberry)