378: Think with AI, Do with People

Hey. It's Arvid, and this is the Bootstrap founder. Earlier this week, I read a blog post by Bethany Crystal, and it was really, really interesting. It was about how CHAN GPT saved her life. She had developed some kind of symptoms that she didn't really know, she couldn't place, and had blood work done couple days before. The results were available to her, but her physician hadn't looked into them yet. And she could spot that on the website apparently where she got those results. So she brainstormed with Shad GPT about what the outstanding and non regular values on the data might mean. She took photos of the bruises that she developed out of nowhere and the little red spots and whatever and then the AI diagnosed her to the point where it recommended that she go to an emergency room right away. She first thought, should I really? But then it actually became bolder, it wrote in bold text. And when she went to the AR and she got there medical staff told her that she was there just in time. They took the same measurements again and he was like, wow, this is really crazy. We've never seen it this bad before. She's now on the path to recovery, but Chachapiti made her go. And there's something amazing about this story on so many many levels. It illustrates to me how everybody now has access to this health care advisor or health care consultant that is constantly available with knowledge of pretty much every illness out there and how to potentially diagnose it. And these AI systems have read countless accounts of illnesses in so many variations and they likely encountered way more variants than any individual physician could possibly see in their career. So when I go to my doctor they've seen maybe 5,100 cases versions of a certain thing. AI systems have ingested papers and abstracts and data for millions of such cases, right? They're programmed with guardrails though and that's a benefit I think at this point because instead of trying to over diagnose like Bethany's problem, Chechi Petit just told her to go to the ER right now. So they prevent over diagnosing and then quickly defer to actual experts in the field, to emergency room physicians and first responders, whoever you might need. And that's amazing. I just really enjoyed this story for how crazy it is that half a decade ago this was unthinkable that you had this advisor to any potential problem in your hand or in your pocket. And at the same time, we're using these exact same AI systems that help people survive, to write code for our software products, or to draft cheeky marketing emails or conduct research for us. It's crazy to think I'm just amazed by this whenever I read an account like that to think that all of this is possible made with the same technology by the same thing. It's Incredible. And …