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AI passes medical exam, designers have nothing to worry about, tool of the day

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Kyle Scott
January 13, 2023

Hello, 'noids.

First lawyers, now doctors. But AI will never touch Coco Chanel.

In the newsletter today:

  • ChatGPT Can Literally Become a Doctor 🩺

  • Designers 🤝 AI

  • Tool of the Day 🔨

  • Links and more 👀

This is going to be fun.

🩺 ChatGPT Is (Nearly) Capable of Passing US Medical Licensing Exams

In SmokeBot's last send we had some fun with lawyers.

Doctors probably thought they were safe.

Wait, what?

James Purtill's story for abc.net.au has some positively fascinating insight:

  • The United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE) is a series of three exams taken by medical students, taken after concurrent years

  • Researchers tested ChatGPT's current medical knowledge and were dumbfounded when the AI tool passed the USMLE at a better than 50% clip

  • The researchers submitted questions from prior tests into ChatGPT and sent the answers to independent physicians to grade them

  • Perhaps the most remarkable part? The researchers confirmed that the questions and answers were not in the dataset that ChatGPT was trained with, i.e., ChatGPT didn't just have the answers in reserve -- it answered the questions by itself

Most test takers study for at least a year to prepare for these tests. The first two are full-day exams. The third takes two days.

ChatGPT passed the test in half the time, with none of the prep.

Poor Urgent Care docs. "It's a virus, drink fluids and get some rest" seems so robotic.

The OBGYNs are probably safe.

👗 Designers and AI Are Destined For Each Other

Remember when Web3 solved problems no one had?

"Your child, but on the Blockchain!"

There will be a lot of that in AI, too.

But the early returns for usefulness are very good. And the best use-cases are those practical, straightforward ones where otherwise time-consuming or repetitive tasks are simply handled by robots.

In this case, freeing up creatives to do what they're best at.

Example!

You can watch the video and read the thread, but in short here's what's happening:

  • product shots can be placed in all sorts of locales by simply describing scenes

  • it's not full generative output, because "high quality design requires more control" and humans direct every step of the process

  • rotate products to get the perfect angle

The replaces hours of Photoshop work or actual on-location shoots, freeing up the photographer or agency to focus on the VISION.

In short: Still requires humans. Still requires creativity. But automates the logistics and production.

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In a related-ish story, this techxplore.com piece delved into where AI is in the fashion industry, and where it might be headed.

Assistant Professor Yoon Kyun Lee from Pusan National University in Korea ran a controlled study where she had design students create textile designs and compared their work to deep convolution generative adversarial networks.

Her result? "Designs produced by both were similar," though "the uniqueness and originality seen in the human designs" set them apart.

The point made by her exercise is that "the use of AI in repetitive tasks can improve the efficiency of designers and frees up their time to focus on more high-difficulty creative work."

Additionally, and SmokeBot concedes that this is somewhat obvious, but AI can almost certainly take a spectacular, prohibitively expensive design, re-engineer it for mass consumption at lower cost, and fill racks and racks with perfectly good, modern designs in big box stores.

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If SmokeBot were to step up on his soap box here, this is where he'd note that these two examples are why schools, businesses and other institutions should embrace AI tools and not shun them. Ahem, NYCPublicSchoolsystem.

It's about empowerment, not replacement. In many cases, AI can help people, particularly creatives, who are all bent out of shape about ChatGPT, do more.. not get rid of them.

Or, you know, just put your dog against a bunch of cool backgrounds:

Tool of the Day 🔨

Built on OpenAI's GPT-3 (ie ChatGPT), Contentbot AI adds a layer of UI by providing you 40 different templates and prompts to create blog posts, social media posts, press releases, and more.

SmokeBot was able to write a press release announcing the launch of SmokingRobot.ai in about 4 minutes... and it was 90% usable pending minor edits.

It's not the most unique tool out there - there are plenty of writing tools - but it makes ChatGPT's text writing power accessible to the masses.

Read our full review here. Or start using Contentbot AI for $1 here.

🧔Who's Out of a Job Today?

Number five was himself.

Anyone else think he's lying?

Links 👀

Have a good weekend.