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Something interesting in AI usage crossed my screen this week and caught my attention…
For years I’ve followed on and off Christopher Penn, originally for marketing knowledge (there was a Marketing Over Coffee podcast, so of course I had to listen) and as time went on I saw how he used tech/programming to sift thru all sorts of data to help with marketing strategy. I still follow him and get his weekly newsletter.
The latest one had a real life example of how he used AI to help him summerize events and information that led up to him in a position of needing to go to Urgent Care and on to the ER. He ask the AI to ask him questions that would come up in hospital admissions and to summarize it all. He figured this way he’d have all the pertainent info, especially in his physical and mental state, in the hecticness of the hospital setting.
When he got there he just showed them the history of events and they were so impressed. They even asked if he was a doctor. Read his full story on his newsletter here (he also posts a version of it as video).
It was super interesting to me how he gave the AI the parameters of what he was looking for, including not to provide any diagnosis. Summarization is something that makes generative AI quite useful.
Till next time..
-john.
link: almosttimely newsletter