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Learn more@joinmochi.com Mochi members have access to licensed physicians and nutritionists. Results may vary hey, It's Cary. Hey. Two recent announcements from ChatGPT has us asking will our desktop soon become our doctor? And will advertising affect the output we get from ChatGPT? We'll dig into that. Plus the mailbag will answer some questions and share resources to past episodes that'll give us more details to the topics we're describing. If that sounds interesting to you, then stick around and I'll see you on the other side of the music. Hey gang. Welcome to the ChatGPT experiment. This is the podcast designed to help you better understand how to use tools like ChatGPT so you can find a productive nugget to make your personal or professional use better. My name is Kerry Weston. I'm your host. Hey first time listeners, welcome to the show. Repeat listeners, welcome back. It is as I'm looking out my back window, snow covered backyard got I don't know, four or five inches of snow here in Bangor, Maine over the weekend. Did some ice fishing out at the lake house and my son had three, three friends out. So we went out and drilled everyone. Each one of them got to learn how to use the ice auger to drill the hole and then each one of them got a trap and I shared with them. The first person that gets a fish would get five bucks and the one that got the biggest fish would get 20. And lo and behold, we only ended up getting one fish. So the first and the biggest ended up being the same good fish. By the way, it was about, I don't know, I'd say a 15, 16 inch bass. We were going for the 40 inch pike. Our lake has really large pike, so that's what we were going after. But a good fish nonetheless. But the best part is just seeing the kids not being in front of a screen, being out in the snow, being out in the air, having fun. That's good. There's hope. There's hope still. Yeah. How you doing? How are you doing today? I thought I would go over a couple things. There's a couple new announcements from OpenAI and while I typically don't do an announcement kind podcast, these two seem to be something that I want to talk about. And both do not have a large sample size yet. Both are announced only, but they do hit at some common and repetitive themes that come up when I have conversations with people that I'm coaching or having a workshop or training. So I thought I'd introduce them to, at least get them on your radar and then as we find out more, we'll talk about it more. But there's not a lot to talk about at the moment as far as experience in detail. So we'll go through those. I've got some emails from listeners and I'll go through a couple of those topics here with you. And then I've got a few listeners that I follow I see often on LinkedIn and a couple things I want to share with you, give them a shout out. So let's get started, shall we? The first thing, and I think this is going to be really big from both the value point of view as well as conversation point of view. And it is ChatGPT Health, what's called ChatGPT Health. And by the way, OpenAI is the company that owns the Chat GPT product. And so if you want to dig in, if you want to see more information on the two topics I'll bring up today and others, by the way, OpenAI.com is the website and then in the left hand bar you'll see some options, but one of them is news. And if you click news, then the first story as of this recording is ChatGPT Health. So let me give you a quick overview on how they define it and then we'll dig into a few things that I see in here on a regular basis. So what they're calling ChatGPT Health is a dedicated experience. Their words inside ChatGPT focused on health and wellness questions. It will give people a separate space to ask about their health, connect medical info and get clearer, more personalized responses from ChatGPT. So let's just break that down for a second because I'm guessing many of you have already engaged in a health conversation with ChatGPT. I know I have and quite frankly it's been really helpful. And I'm not sure what a dedicated slash separate space for this is going to be, but I'm all here for it, I'm all for it and I want to see where this goes. My guess in my kind of rudimentary thinking of this is this would be kind of a custom GPT type focused thing where it's only medically focused. It's going to come in with that background than the role playing knowledge of a healthcare professional to guide. Right. And what OpenAI is saying is again, hundreds of millions of people ask ChatGPT Health and Wellness questions every week. And what they're saying is this feature is going to formalize that behavior and add focused protections and privacy around those conversations. So I bring this up because not only is health related questions and inquiries and conversations with ChatGPT one of the largest uses and one of the more popular ways I hear people actually getting value from ChatGPT on a personal side, but it does bring up words like security, words like private, words like protected secure, especially when we hear them say things like it's going to connect to medical records. Now there are apps if you want an iPhone or an iWatch and you live in the Mac and the Apple ecosystem, you know, you've already seen how Apple health can perform and perhaps you have tapped into some sort of medical records. And so there's already, that's just one example. But there's already plenty of places in which the digital frontier and access to medical information has already exists. Right. But you know, there's the continuous conversation about how protected am I, how secure is this and what could go wrong? I think that will always be there. And so just to wrap that kind of Thought up in a neat way. I know this is being addressed. They know it needs to be addressed. I think they'll go above and beyond. So I'm not really concerned about that. Let me share with you my perspective here. And I'm in the United States and I know I have listeners across the globe, so I'm not sure what it's like in your neck of the woods, but here where I am, I can share with you that my experience, talking only from my experiences and my conversations that I've had with others who have shared, is that healthcare feels like it's becoming more of a commodity. And the information seems to be. It feels like we're on a treadmill. If I'm being honest with you, the days of getting personalized attention from someone that really, deeply understands you seems to be a thing of memory, which is unfortunate. There are some pockets of places where this is the exception. I know, but really to have that primary care physician that is a multi generational servant to your family's good health is no longer here. I know that we have a learning hospital, we have a residency program here as part of our healthcare community. And it's not uncommon for you to see a new person every time you go into your primary practice, you know, every six months, once a year. To not see the same person within the same year is not unusual, much less the disconnect that it feels between generalists and specialists and the lack of connection and communication systems. And of course, we bring in insurance and all of the things that complicate matters from a personalization point of view. So maybe you're like me. Maybe you have experiences where you are frustrated because you feel like you have to be healthcare advocate more than ever just to get attention, right? Just to get a response, just to get satisfaction on something that seems like it should be basic. So I think the opportunity for the information to be decentralized is a good one. I think that there are plenty of people that will welcome this. Now, there's all kinds of what ifs, which comes with so many caveats. Right. And so that's something that certainly needs to be explored and discussed. And I've reached out to a few folks in the healthcare field. I'm interested to get their perspective. They are currently on a waiting list. And, and let me share with you if, if you are interested in trying this out at the moment. I know nobody that has actually been granted use of this yet. This is still a waiting list and you can get on that waiting list if you go to OpenAI like we mentioned or just Google and, or whatever search platform you're using these days, even within ChatGPT just search ChatGPT Health and you'll get the landing page on the OpenAI website and it's quite easy to just join the waiting list. I think there's one question in terms of types of things that you are interested in using ChatGPT Health for. They're trying to categorize the interest, I think and then the official page says that it will be rolling out in the next few weeks and I'm not sure what that means. I'm not sure if that goes to a select few. So this is probably the, an end of quarter one kind of thing for ChatGPT to have ChatGPT Health be out in the, in the, in the marketplace. But they, they mention here that they don't want to replace doctors. The goal of ChatGPT Health is to understand lab results, prepare for doctor appointments, make sense of diet and activity data, see patterns of health over time. Now I can tell you that I have used it for understanding lab results already. And again, how will this be different than what we're using it now? Is the big answer that I'm waiting to see. But it does simplify. We have talked about ChatGPT in general being a really good role player and sharing in different perspectives. So the ability of taking something that's really complicated like a four page blood lab result and feeding it into ChatGPT and just saying hey listen, make sense of this for me. Is there anything I need to know? Be concerned about what's good, what's bad and talk to me like I'm an eighth grader. That alone is been very beneficial to me and so I like the opportunity of having more of that at my disposal. They are talking about extra privacy protections. Of course it will be security and privacy that will be front and center in the conversation. So again, not enough known at the moment except for what they're saying that there are going to be encryptions and isolated chats and conversations in health aren't shared or training the model and you get to stay in control. So they're saying all the right things or talking about safety and privacy. But again, until we can see and use and better understand these are just terms at the moment. And so I asked to have help from Chat GPT. Can you just use public research and tell me what are the top five questions that people are asking about this at the moment? And so these are the five that came back. Obviously the first is what is this thing, right. What is ChatGPT health and how is it different from regular ChatGPT, which is good? How does, how does it use my medical data and is that safe? The third question is can CHAT GPT diagnose medical conditions or replace a doctor? Right. What kinds of health questions can it actually help with and are there risks or limitations that I should know about? So you can kind of see already the questions that you will have while we're talking about this is the same questions ChatGPT is already getting. So again, I look forward to that information, the answers and the ability of experiencing it myself. So how about you? Will you dive in? Will you check this out? Are you going to be curiously skeptical? Where do you land on that regard? Certainly it's a new frontier these days with the ability to get more information, better information, faster, more convenient. And then I'm interested to see how the healthcare community responds to this. Is it seen as a competitor or a challenge or a threat, or is it seen as a welcomed addition to their already the expertise that they already have? So is this going to increase the time and opportunities for folks to free up their ability to have a little bit more personalized attention or is it going to go just the opposite and it's going to create a whirlwind of undos in the medical world that will challenge even the access, as slow as it is and as hard as it is to get. Now some more to come on that, but I wanted to let you know that that's if you haven't heard about it, that it's out there in coming. So I'll keep my eyes on it here and as soon as we get the ability to either play with it or have somebody from the medical community who has been able to play with it on here, I'll get more information answers to you on the show. The second rollout is ads, advertising inside ChatGPT. And this is probably a surprise to no one. The amount of money that is being spent on AI, the amount of money that's going into infrastructure and all that just begs for more revenue channels for this and other companies. So the ability of having ads probably doesn't surprise anyone. There are billions and billions of dollars every year for companies like Google and Meta that come in just from advertising to the community that's on their platform. So you know, ChatGPT estimated, I think, or OpenAI, sorry estimated that this is the ability for them in the first year to bring somewhere in the 6 billion dollar amount as it rolls out. So for me again, the Reason I'm bringing this to you is not because we always talk about the updated and latest features and functions of Chat GPT, but because this hits on a topic and an area of concern that I hear regularly, which is the objecticity of the objectivity and authenticity, excuse me, of trust but verify. And will the interactions of ChatGPT, will the information, the output and the work that you do be influenced by sponsors? Right, so the early answers here are no, the early answers here or ads will clearly be labeled and separate and not impact at all. And I asked it to give me an example. Again, I'm not seeing it yet. They're saying that it's going to roll out in the free version and the lowest price version which was called ChatGPT Go and that's an 8 month or $8 a month option. And they said those will be the two layers that we'll see ads first. I'm assuming that later we might see ads in the, in the higher paid plans. Right now they're saying paid plans will stay ad free. So we'll see. They do say from the company ads are coming soon to free and low cost tiers, but they won't change how chat CPT answers questions. Okay, so I said can you give me a sample of what this will look like in my chat? So it did. And pretty straightforward. Here's the answer or the conversation I normally would have. And at the bottom there's a, a bold word that says sponsored and then there's a, a two line or three line ad with a link and it looks a lot like the blue sponsored ads you'd see in Google. So you know this isn't a graphical change that's going to be amazingly different than what you're used to. And it is separate at the bottom. What they're saying is these are the things that we should probably think about and talk about. The answer will always come first. The ad is always going to be clearly labeled. The ad does not change the advice. The ad is not woven into the response and there's no hidden persuasion and no product recommendations inside the advice itself. Now that is different than what we see in shopping. There is a rollout. Now as you are asking about products, you will see that ChatGPT will recommend products and some of those products come with links where you can buy that product. So there is going to be a separation, it looks like, between the shopping responses and specific product responses you're going to get as you interact with ChatGPT and this advertising, paid ads kind of platform. But for now, what it's saying is it's not going to share your information with advertisers and it's not going to impact or influence the advice that you get. I share all this because again, trust but verify authenticity. Can I trust it? Is this real? Are we hallucinating? Is this being influenced by something? These are all questions that I get on a regular basis. Those are good questions. They should always be something that drives your use of a tool like ChatGPT and others should always ask to verify the information and not trust everything at face value. This will certainly cloud the ability for someone who is somewhat skeptical to understand if this is truly real, authentic, honest. And again, we're going to have to have a larger sample size of seeing how it works and how it plays out before we answer those questions. But another rollout and an understandable one from my point of view or revenue point of view. And in fact, I'll go back. Speaking of revenue, I haven't seen, when we talk about health, ChatGPT Health, I haven't seen a number yet. I haven't dug very deeply. I've done five minute Internet research on that particular topic and haven't seen a number been released yet. But I got to imagine there'll be a beta period for Health and then that will probably and most likely become a paid service along with some other things that are being specialized. Right. These are going to be models that will be revenue generators because of their value. So again, we're seeing things that are changing in how ChatGPT rolls out as product, uses a product. And some of this is gonna be on a revenue making perspective. Okay, very interesting. Again, I'll keep you, I'll keep you posted as I experiment more. And if you actually. Let me ask you if you get the opportunity to see either one of these or play or interact with anyone, I'd love to hear from you. ChatGPT experiment.com is the website. You can reach me through there. I'd love to hear what you're seeing, what you're thinking and reach out. I'd love to hear back more we can share from a real point of view, the better. Okay, let's move to some questions that I've received over the past few weeks. And first one comes from William with a Y. He's interested in book writing, using ChatGPT to write a book. And so that's a good one. I've been William, I've been involved in two books in the past year, year and a half, writing with clients and we've used tools like Claude and ChatGPT to do it. And this is where I share with you William, that I use ChatGPT to write with me or to work with me rather than work for me or write for me. I think there's a major difference there. And one of the biggest ways in which I've seen ChatGPT be very, very helpful is just doing exactly what I'm doing now, which is talking, getting stuff out of my head, interviewing yourself or having someone interview you to get your full, thorough, honest, experience driven answer out of your head. If it's a non fiction book, obviously if it's fiction and you're making stuff up, sometimes just the ability of talking aloud is helpful. I've talked to a lot of folks who say that they need to use their fingers when they type and create because it's, it's how they think. They need to slow down and think and, and it's a, it's a very on purpose way of getting their thoughts on paper. I'm just the opposite. I do this a lot. I just talk and then I ask ChatGPT to organize and analyze what I say and it's a very good tool for doing that. So William, I would say the ability for you to use CHAT GPT as an interviewing partner to get stuff out of your head so that you can do more with it is probably the best use. And I'm going to refer you William to episode 56 in which is called Writing a Book with ChatGPT. I think that was a business book example but the same principles are true. Episode 56 and by the way, for all of the episodes that we have, chatgpt experiment.com youm can obviously find them as well in the podcast platform of your favor. But chatgpt experiment.com does have an archive of the of the past episodes Christina wrote in and just wants to know what the difference is between a chat in ChatGPT and a project. And Christina hit on that in episode 87 specifically around using projects in ChatGPT. But I'll give you a quick answer here is that a project allows you to create specificity and give it a very specific purpose or role and provide resources and rules and it has memory within those rules that you give it so it will allow you to be hyper focused on a specific thing or process or whatever it is that you might be doing, share resources to give it guidance and details and structure and then use it over and over again. And what I like about projects is every conversation that you create using A project shows up in the project itself so you don't have to hunt and peck through that sidebar. Right? I think it was either this is episode 97 now, so I think it was either 96 or 95 where I rolled out the creation of a project and the resources that I used and literally how I talk to ChatGPT. But episode 87 specifically has more details on projects, so I hope you find some value there. Vito wrote in, he wants to know with the New Year, how do I use ChatGPT to motivate me on a regular basis? It's a good one, Vito. A lot of folks are looking for motivation, especially with New Year's resolutions and whatnot. I got some good feedback from my three words for 2026 and certainly keeping focused on things that you want to do, be it personal goals or motivations or day to to DOS or whatever it might be. ChatGPT has been a very powerful partner for me and others on that veto. I want to share with you. There are three episodes that I would refer you to that speak to this specifically around creating what I call a second brain. Using Chat GPT is a problem solving partner, getting unstuck motivation, that kind of thing. So I would refer you to episode 66, episode 67 and episode 69. So there's a three episode stretch there in the late 60s where I was talking about just this. So I think you might find some details there that are helping you out. James wrote in and wants to know what's the performance difference between the different mediums, the desktop on the phone and maybe even the app on a Mac, which is a great question. We haven't covered that here. So James, I'm glad you wrote in. So from what I find both from personal experience and then looking through documentation through ChatGPT itself, there is no difference in how ChatGPT receives, processes and gives back conversations and information. So there's no mobile version or stripped down version of ChatGPT. I did see a new announcement that will probably challenge exactly what I just said to you. I think there's a non Internet version now that you can download an app. So I'm not talking to that because I don't have experience with that. That's relatively new. What I'm referring to here is using your account either on a phone or on a tablet or on the app or on a desktop browser. The model by which it receives and process and talks with you is the same. Now I do know from personal experience that how I use or what I use matters so for instance, and it's no different, quite honestly, James, than how you'd use a search engine. You know, if I'm on my phone using a search engine, just like if I'm on a phone using ChatGPT, I'm probably not digging into a multi step process of great detail and time and length, right? I'm probably doing something quick, I'm asking questions or I'm getting in and out, that kind of thing. Just because of the nature of I'm probably busy, I'm probably doing something else, I'm using the phone along with something, right? I need to get quick information or have there be a timely answer or something like that doesn't mean that the model's different, I'm just using it differently, if that makes any sense. On the desktop I seem to have more detail, more multi step guidance, ask for insight analysis, that kind of thing. More complexity tends to happen on the desktop. Now it doesn't mean it's more complex than the phone. Like I just said, it just happens to be the way in which I interact with it tends to be different. So I think the answer to your question is no. Inherently from ChatGPT there's no performance differences or there's no stated performance differences. And I can back that up. I haven't seen any difference. I think it's more along the way in which how we use depending on the device we're using that we find the difference. However, I will say that again, I'm back to talking versus typing. And there are some inherent voice tools in ChatGPT. But if you want to set up your computer to have that talk to text kind of capability outside of chatgpts, because I've heard from others and I have seen this, that sometimes using the Voice tool in ChatGPT Desktop specifically, if you talk too much, it'll cut you off. And so this, there seems to be a time constraint. You can work around that by setting your computer up outside of ChatGPT. So just in general to be a voice and text ready, and that is James, that is episode 12 for me, I had a mini episode on doing just that. And if you go to chatgpt experiment.com on episode 12 in the show notes, so go to the episode archive, episode 12. And in the show notes itself I listed a video as well as two links, one for a PC and one for a Mac on how to set your computer up to take advantage of voice to text capabilities globally, with or without ChatGPT. It's just something that's really served me well, because again, I like to talk better than type. Okay, I hope that helps. James, a couple others. Just two episodes that I refer to regularly. I thought I'd share since I'm referring to podcasts here. Number 71 is the amazing Intern episode. That's my guiding framework and mindset. As I used ChatGPT, I have identified AI for me when I teach and coach as an amazing intern. Episode 71 kind of dives into that to kind of give you a mindset that may help you be more effective with ChatGPT. And while you're doing that, episode 85 is my four part framework that provides a terrific, well, framework, right, to get better results out of ChatGPT. So episode 85 for the four part framework, combining 71 with 85 I think would be a terrific way to take a look at your mindset, your approach, no matter what you're doing with ChatGPT, episode 71 and 85 will give you a, I think a fantastic foundation to be more effective. Okay, hey listen. Couple shout outs to folks that are regulars of the show. Craig Scott's over in the UK, Craig posted on LinkedIn that he recently finished the foundations in AI governance. It's a course that he took online and he shares in his LinkedIn post some of the things that he walked away with, as well as examples and links of the program he was in. And I share that because I know Craig's a big advocate of AI and is actually teaching or working in workshops over in the UK himself. But I have a lot of conversations about risk and policies inside businesses themselves, why they work, why they don't, best practices, how to go about it, what should I do, what shouldn't I do? And so when I saw Craig's post on LinkedIn about the foundations of AI governance, some of the bullet points and the details he was giving makes me think this might be worth your look. So if you are thinking about risk and policies inside a corporate environment when it comes to AI, ChatGPT or otherwise, you can connect with Craig on LinkedIn and you can see his post there that might give you some more information. Over in Australia, Jody Harlow is with Basketball Victoria and she's been big on increasing her efficiency using AI. But the thing that caught my eye the other day was community sports boards and how inefficient and unproductive some of the meetings can be and how to improve that using tools like ChatGPT with AI. Now, if you're like me, you volunteered for one or many, either sports groups or nonprofits or community groups or something at school. And you know the frustration that can take place when you show up to at a meeting and the whole meeting is about what was supposed to be done before the meeting and you end up talking about things and not staying on focus and you leave with nothing being done. And so Jody was making a post the other day about her role in using AI to make those meetings more productive, make people more productive and certainly get more of the time. Because if you're going to get people to volunteer, they might as well feel or they should feel. They deserve to feel like they're making progress. And so good on you, Jodi, for doing that. And lastly, I wanted to share an email that I got from Rebecca and Rebecca wrote in regarding my three words for 2026 and she said, hey Carrie, I listen to the podcast and my three words are very similar. She has make, growth and connect. And this is the interesting part, this is why I want to share. There's so many interesting people that listen to this podcast and I appreciate you reaching out and sharing. I thought you might be interested in this. So for make she said, I am a glass fusing enthusiast. Not heard of that before, but pretty cool glass fusing enthusiast. And she has two glass fusing kilns in the garage. Last year I hardly did any glass projects at all. So this year I promised myself that I will do at least three. And she shared a picture of her favorite projects from 2024, Glass Fusion. And it's a framed picture with colored glass. Very beautiful. With flowers, sky and grass and bumblebee and butterflies. Very impressive, very impressive. So I appreciate you reaching out. It was great to see that because I didn't really know what glass fusion was. Yeah. She said growth was her second word. These relate to mental and physical improvements by making a weekly commitment to exercise. I think that's great. And the third one is Connect. Like me, she says I work from home and have recently joined a weekly networking group for the first time. I was quite nervous, but she actually ended up meeting the wife of a husband cycling buddy. So it's a small world. So three words for 2026. And Rebecca, thank you for sharing that and the photo. Beautiful work and I, I hope you, I hope you do more of it because that's, that's great. I appreciate you sharing good stuff. Okay, well that's going to do it for episode 97. Thanks for staying with me. Chat GPT experiment.com is the podcast if you're interested in one on one training or training for your business or a workshop or a seminar that you have that you might want to work in, an AI presentation. Reach out to me. You can find my contact information there. And as always, I'm going to say that the key to you being more productive using tools like ChatGPT is your own curiosity. Okay? So until we talk again, do stay curious. Bye. Bye.