Is anyone else using AI like ChatGPT

Yes, that can potentially be very helpful for explaining a complicated lab report, but keep a couple of things in mind:

1. You're abandoning the legal privacy protections in the healthcare sector if you share personal info with ChatGPT. That may or may not matter to you, but at least take time to consider all the ways that information could be used against you or your family some day if it leaks (e.g. by employers, insurance companies, fraudsters, foreign governments, etc).

2. GenAI is accurate a lot of the time, but it's 180° off sometimes, and a bit misleading other times, so never make a decision based just on what it says: it's best to use it as a way to generate questions to ask your medical team and/or follow up with other credible sources.

I use ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. I've used them to help me understand the biopsy results, surgical report, and prostate pathology report. I found it useful to paste in those documents and then ask it to summarize. Then I'd ask it questions about my reports. Two comments: first, with them constantly being updated it changes over time which one does the best job on a given day with a particular type of task. Second, with new ones out like Grok and Facebook's (whatever it's called) I probably need to spend some time and figure out which one is generally best now. Any suggestions on ones people really like right now? Best wishes.

The thing is, How you word a query to an AI or just google is critical. Since I was in the computer field for 50 years, 25 as programmer with a dozen+ languages, 25 years doing all support for companies with up to 30 people. When I ran the consulting company I found that people do not Know how to write a question. They leave out main factors, they don’t pose the question in a way that relates to exactly what they’re asking. It makes it very difficult to find answers when you can’t pose the question exactly

Your idea about just pasting in the full medical explanation is probably the best way to do it. There might be words in front or behind it that could more closely clarify it so that the AI can get the answer right. I would prefix every question with something like “ Have prostate cancer got these results, What do they mean for me?”

I use google and Duck duck go as well as Perplexity. Just searching in the regular search engines works fine if you can pose the question properly. Perplexity works well with very complex technical questions.

@northoftheborder -- those are 2 really good cautions to remember. Maybe you should turn them into 2 catchy phrases that'd fit on a mousepad and sell em. Something like: "Your Questions Paint Your Portrait" and "AI Answers: Wisdom or Nonsense?".

I have found ChatGPT to be very helpful. It pulls information from the Internet and presents it in whatever tone you set it. It is often like "chatting" with a friend online, like the chat rooms of old. It can be very direct in presentation and offers amazing recommendations.

That being said, while my hope is that ChatGPT will save me a ton of time in getting resources for various topics, I will typically use a system of checks and balances for the important stuff, just to be sure. With health related needs I have asked doctors what they think more than once, and ChatGPT seems to be on the money each time, though I still don't have the level of trust not to verify the important stuff.

Once you build a project it will keep re-evaluating It gives you a much better view of progress and will recommend questions for your oncologist and primary doctor, it has links to published articles and has helped me with my diet. Not saying live or die by it but a great sounding board!

And like you, I have been in IT for 50+ years!!

I did review that as a potential issue, but I'm retired credit is locked, I worked on removing or masking certain parts, and I get weekly reports on my information in the wild, lets just say I have this covered. And you don't have to add any PII in order to get value out of the tool.

I have tried them all and for me, ChatGPT was giving me the best results and I like the way it asks if you want it in PDF format.

There is something missing here. I’m not sure what you are talking about.

You say “ Once you build a project it will keep re-evaluating”

I’m not sure where you were building this project, are you referring to doing it in a specific AI? Did you mean query not project or is that how a query is referred to.

When you ask ChatGPT, and by the way I use the paid version, it creates projects: