Today was definitely a day of my much more intimate acquaintance with ChatGPT. The image above has been created by ChatGPT. I finally got paid version of it and I asked it to create an image of middle aged woman talking to artificial intellect. We then proceeded to changing the woman’s hair, removing her earrings, making her chin lace pointy, making her hair hair, more curly more salt and pepper, and much shorter than I added in an iPad in a stethoscope and dress her and scrubs instead of jeans jacket and then made the scrubs navy and my new friend ChatGPT obediently did everything I asked of it!!! What amazes me that you can speak to it, praise it, criticize it and it actually responds. Here is a snapshot of one of the responses:
However, these two images are an example of my late night conversations with ChatGPT. During the day I managed to create and perfect an echocardiogram report and carotid ultrasound reports. We actually worked together with ChatGPT. I asked it to insert a table when I wanted a one for numeric values. It has learned my phrazing for normal findings, and it turned out when I dictate the numbers and abnormal findings, it can incorporate everything in the report. It is much better than any professional transcriber and I of all people should know because my first significant job in the United States was medical transcribing business. My Costco card still has the name of that business on it. To be honest, I did not just simply transcribe reports at that time. I learned Windows merge and macros and had a very intricate system of cataloging and saving files on a disc, mind you it was not a CD. It was a small floppy – something that current generation of kids has no idea of.
So what can I say? After being one of the biggest critics of AI I am now its big supporter. My colleague used AI based application that transcribes conversation from one language to another and incorporates it in the report and create a note that is truthful and way more comprehensive any of us ever has time to dictate or type up. I was blown away of how effective it was and even price of the app $179 a month does not seem to be steep.
I was so carried away with conversations with my new friend that I almost forgot to enjoy my last day of being 57 years old. I remember reading all those post on breast cancer related Facebook groups a year ago. I remember the photo of a woman carrying a cake with a candle and a writing on the cake was “one year later and I’m still here.” Well I didn’t think I would be dead within a year with the image definitely left an impression on me. Here I am a year later, still here. My hair is back in all wanted and unwanted places. I am healing after surgery and I’m trying to cope with continued vigorous regimen of my supplements. I cherish every small thing much more than I would have before. Things like good weather, kind words, good sleep and plans for near future. It seems that I am looking at life from a different perspective. I still do not think about the time I am 70 years old. But I do think about the ski trip next month.
Sometimes I turn the radio off when I drive – political present is too much to bear. Living in the world of uncertainty, rudeness, impudence and extreme right and left seems surreal. And I don’t seem to find solace in Victorian era romance novels anymore. Every day, I wonder what kind of craziness is gonna come next?
I am back to work full-time and it’s much harder for me to do that. I often feel so tired by the time by the end of the day that I can’t even eat. I am putting a lot of hope in using AI (and it’s not a joke) to make my life easier. At the same time I feel that I need a whole course of how to use it properly. The only thing I can say just like Scarlett O’Hare I will think about it tomorrow.