How I used GPT-3, the world’s most advanced AI, to diagnose my fiancé’s hormonal condition
I was one of those people that would share the Scooby-Doo meme where the mask is being pulled of AI just to reveal a bunch of if statements, I even wrote an article about it, and can you blame me? AI is a buzzword nowadays with AI power cars, phones, toasters, toothbrushes; Even if you have a shabby donut shop running WooCommerce, I’m sure your marketing team is telling you to slap an “AI-powered donuts” somewhere on the homepage just for the hell of it.
So, I fell into the trap of thinking that Deep Learning is just a buzzword and doesn’t really mean anything — that is until I got an invitation to use GPT-3…
The first day was a mess, GPT-3 is an idiot savant-like my business partner called it. It told me that our company is a known US Military Contractor, I have no idea why it thought that, it switched to Chinese on me and outputted a rant about gun violence when I asked him what he’s option was on it.
This was not working out… it was clear from its responses that the tech was very capable, but the user was a complete idiot.
So, I did something that I rarely do. I read the documentation from beginning to end. After that, I started to understand how I can create a good context for GPT-3 and everything just clicked in to place.
Meanwhile, my Fiancé was there, putting up with all my rants when I managed to finally understand how to parse a particular question or when I managed to get GPT-3 to write the first piece of code for me. So, she knew as much about the AI that I did, which was not much.
So, she asked me if it can answer a medical question she had. I wasn’t sure, so I wiped up a context quickly and feed the symptoms into the AI.
This was the result:
I couldn't believe it. It was actually making a lot of sense. So, I sent the screenshot to a doctor friend of mine, she responded in a matter of minutes. She told me it is most likely correct.
It was then that I realized I just witnessed the future of medicine, and it was not in the hands of a doctor or a nurse, it was in the hands of a programmer.
My doctor buddy wasn't really that excited, she just asked me “can it do surgery?”, I told her no, so she just concluded with “Then it’s not replacing me anytime soon”… then she hung up…
Doctors are trained to observe symptoms and make a diagnosis so if we can teach our AI to make a diagnosis, we can teach it to interpret data, and then it’s only a matter of time before it can do all the things that we do. AI and Medicine, the power combo.
I’m not going to lie, I still think most AI sucks and is just used for hype. But GPT-3 is different. It has a purpose, it can make a difference.
Note: All the italics parts are actually written by GPT-3. As you can see, it has a great opinion of himself and a very positive outlook on the future 😜️
Disclaimer: It is GPT-3’s documentation that it can’t be used to diagnose medical conditions, for obvious reasons. If you use it for at least a few days you will understand why. Please use a human doctor and not a beta AI to get your medical advice, at least for now ;)
