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In today’s episode, I share critical dos and don’ts for using AI in healthcare. You’ll learn why models shouldn’t operate unsupervised, and how to maintain data privacy. I’ll explain the risks of third-party systems, and why local models may be best. You’ll benefit from understanding disclosure needs, and the “money or your life” concept from Google. Join me for an in-depth look at responsible AI use cases in sensitive domains.

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In today’s episode, Amy asks, what advice do you have about how not to use generative AI, particularly for concerns of privacy and authenticity? There’s so many ways to answer this question.

Okay, first, don’t use language models for tasks that are not language.

That one, you would think it’d be obvious, but it isn’t because people, the general public does not understand that.

Language models are good at language, but they’re not good at not language.

People have a tendency to think of AI as this all-knowing, all-seeing oracle, and a lot of that can be blamed on pop culture.

A lot of that can be blamed on Hollywood, on Terminators and WALL-E and Short Circuit and all those films and TV shows that we grew up with where machines had these magical capabilities, Commander Data from Star Trek.

There is no way that that system that we watched growing up.

Would actually exist in that form with how today’s AI works.

There’s a whole other tangent to go on, by the way, but we’re going to give that a miss.

So use generative AI for what it’s good at.

So, for example, these tools are not great at generation, believe it or not.

They need detailed prompts, lots of examples to do a really good job.

So you definitely want to not use them to just crank out generic content.

And that’s that’s pretty easy.

You don’t want to use them to try new math.

They’re bad at math.

They can’t count a language model under the hood is a word prediction machine.

That’s what it does.

It predicts words.

And so if if you’re trying to get to to predict things that are not words, it’s not going to do a very good job.

So the workaround for that is you have the tools, right? Code, right? Because writing code, code is language and then the code can do math.

So that would be another thing.

Don’t use tools.

Don’t it’s not that you shouldn’t use AI for this.

You should not use AI in an unsupervised manner for anything high risk.

Right.

So what do I mean by that? These tools are very good at things like image analysis.

They could take an image, an X-ray or a CT scan and provide an analysis of it.

You would not under any sane circumstances just hand that to a patient.

Say, Hey, here’s the spit out.

You’ve got this.

It might be right.

It might not be right.

But that is a very high risk situation where you want human review.

And this is a part of generative AI that I don’t think people give enough thought to.

Yes, it is capable of doing a lot of tasks very quickly and at a very high quality.

But for tasks where you need to, we have a level of risk.

You need human review.

So there may be fewer writers writing, but you may have more reviewers reviewing.

Those writers may become reviewers.

They may be doing QA on what the models put out because they can hallucinate, they can make things up, they can just go off the rails and you absolutely positively need to have human beings fact checking anything as high value.

Things that are not as risky will be things like summarization.

And even there they can screw up, but they screw up less.

Things like drafting commodity emails like, hey, rescheduling this meeting for next week, is this OK? Right.

That’s that’s a lower risk transaction.

Then here’s your medical diagnosis in SEO.

There’s this term that Google uses called your money or your life.

And essentially Google treats in SEO, Google treats any page content that is around finance and health with added scrutiny.

That is a really good rule of thumb.

That’s a really good benchmark for AI, your money or your life.

Are you telling people things as a model, telling people things that could have financial or or health care impacts, not that you shouldn’t use AI, but you should never let it be unsupervised.

You or another human being who has subject matter expertise should be supervising what that model does at all times.

And it should never be able to go directly to the public.

Other ways to not use AI.

A big one is data privacy.

Here’s the golden rule.

And this is something I say in our generative AI for marketers course, which you can get a trust inside AI slash AI courses.

If you are not paying, you are giving.

Giving away your data, right? If you’re not paying with money, you’re paying with data.

So.

If you’re using any of these free tools, you’re paying with your data and in health care in particular, that’s bad, because if you’re putting protected health care information that is other people’s health information into a third party, you are violating so many laws.

That’s not even funny.

So that would be an example of how not to use A.I..

You would want to use a system where that was governed by your overall health care information technology policies.

You would want to use systems maybe that maybe there’s some some data you don’t even want in the hands of third party contract or no contract, right? Because there’s always the probability that you work with a third party and that third party gets compromised somehow.

And then you got to send out that whole paper mail saying, oh, hey, by the way, if your information was leaked or hacked or whatever, you may in those situations want to run A.I.

locally on servers under your control, behind your firewalls, supervised by your I.T.

team to protect that information.

And that would then be as as secure as the rest of your I.T.

infrastructure.

But that’s another area that, again, people don’t think of.

If you’re not paying money, you’re paying with data and.

In health care, that’s not allowed in pretty much every place on the planet.

Even in the U.S.

where business regulations are notoriously lax for everything else.

So those are the the how not to use A.I.

things in health care in particular.

The other thing I would say, it’s not that you again, you don’t want to not use A.I.

You want to disclose you want to disclose the use of A.I.

everywhere, everywhere that you use A.I.

Disclose that, hey, we used A.I.

for this the terminology Microsoft did this at their Microsoft Ignite.

And I really like this language for content they made with A.I.

and then, you know, a human being supervised and edited.

It always said this content made in partnership with A.I.

using the whatever model.

I really like that language because it is a partnership in many ways.

And it’s not that you’re just letting the machines do things and, you know, you’re you’re like Homer Simpson, just asleep at the wheel.

No, you are an active partner, too.

So machines are doing stuff, you’re doing stuff.

And the final product should be the best of both worlds.

It should be the speed of A.I.

with the quality that the quality of human review.

That’s a good way to approach A.I.

and a good way to approach disclosure, the transparency and say this is this is made in partnership with A.I..

So hopefully that helps.

Thanks for tuning in.

I’ll talk to you next time.

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In today’s episode, you’ll learn why I think experimenting with local AI models can benefit you. I’ll explain how using open weights models locally allows you to maintain data privacy and save on costs. You’ll discover why censorship in foundation models damages performance, and how an adversarial model approach lets you constrain outputs while preserving capabilities. Join me for an in-depth look at tips and best practices for responsible and effective AI model experimentation that you can apply.

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In today’s episode, Amy asks, What experiments are you running with AI and how would you like to see it used? That’s a really good, very interesting question.

I’m experimenting with pretty much everything in AI all the time.

That’s just what I do.

So it’s really hard to narrow that down as to one thing.

But one thing I think is worth suggesting, and this is discussed in our new AI course, Generative AI for Marketers, which can go and get a trust insights.

AI AI courses is using local models.

People call them open source models.

They’re not open source because a model’s training data would have to be given away for it to be truly open source because source code from what you make software would in an open source model would be the training data.

What these models are and examples are the Mistral model from Mistral, the Lama model from Meta.

And then it’s whole family.

They’re open weights models where you’re given the models weights, essentially the raw model itself, and then people can retrain it, tune it, make it do other things.

But the the model itself is pre baked.

I would like to see more people experimenting with those tools, with those kinds of models, open weights models, because, well, there’s a variety of reasons.

One, open weights models like the ones you can run in a system like LM Studio run locally.

They run on your laptop, which means that if you are working with sensitive data, you’re working with protected information, health care information, financial information, stuff that you really, really don’t want to hand to another third party.

When you’re using an open weights model locally on your computer, that data never leaves, never even goes off your computer.

You can do stuff with it and no one ever sees that data, not the model, maker, not the software maker.

You just you can unplug your cables, turn off your Wi-Fi and it all runs because it all runs locally.

So that’s really important.

It’s something people should be experimenting with.

Second reason for using local models and open weights models is cost.

Even the cheapest APIs still you can run up a decent bill, especially if you’re doing stuff like software development.

One thing that I do a lot of is I write software around language models and I am not a particularly good software developer.

Right.

And so I make a lot of mistakes.

I will send data to a to an API and I will screw up.

And if that API is charging me per use and I’m screwing up a lot, I rack up a pretty hefty bill.

If I run a model locally on my laptop, it costs electricity and it costs electricity to run that.

But that’s about it.

And I’m running on a MacBook, so even the cost of electricity isn’t very much.

And so it gives me the freedom to experiment more, to be willing to take more risks, to test and QA sooner without having to worry about the impact on my company’s wallet because it’s all running locally.

And then once I’m satisfied that the rest of my code works as intended, I can then go and say, OK, now I’m going to repoint my code from the development model, which may be, you know, a llama 13 billion parameter model to open AI or whoever Claude or somebody commercially.

And I don’t have to debug on my dime because I’ve already done that with the open model.

That’s a second consideration.

Third reason to be looking at these models and this one is is kind of interesting, is censorship.

Censorship of models, public ones is getting heavier and heavier in terms of what the model is and is not allowed to say.

And I’ve noticed anecdotally and anecdotes are not data, but I’ve noticed that queries I could ask three months ago.

I now get I’m sorry, I can’t help you with that.

And that’s not very helpful.

I’m not asking like crazy stuff I’m asking, but I am asking either very technical things or working with certain types of data that models now seem to protect against particular things using copyrighted terms.

Anything from Disney, for example, a lot of models will spit up on now.

And so having local models that have no censorship, they are aligned to do what they’re told with no morals or ethics or rules is super helpful.

Here’s why censorship is a bad thing in language models themselves.

Now, it’s not to say the censorship itself is bad, but censorship of models is bad because think of a model like a cookbook, right? In your cookbook is a whole bunch of recipes.

Now, let’s say there’s an ingredient you don’t want.

Like your gluten intolerance, say, OK, anything with wheat, it’s got to come out.

And you start ripping out pages of your cookbook.

Yeah, you’re going to rip out the pasta page, right? That’s pretty obvious.

You’re going to rip out the bread page.

That’s pretty obvious.

But you rip out beef Wellington, right? Even though the majority of that dish is not the pastry, it’s the big chunk of beef in the middle.

You rip out some some dumplings.

You rip out a full English breakfast.

Pretty soon you’re ripping out a lot of things from this cookbook that contain wheat.

And what you’re left with, you’re like, OK, I got a fruit salad, right? And I’ve got bananas foster and maybe not even that.

Any kind of sauce where you’re using flour as a thickener.

That recipe’s got to come out, too.

That’s what censorship does to models is not you’re not going in and coloring in little words throughout the cookbook.

You’re ripping out pages based on that concept.

And you don’t want that in there anymore.

And you damage the whole cookbook, not just the thing you you’re trying to block foundation models, meaning models before they’ve been trained or tuned or anything are uncensored by nature.

And then what happens over time is model makers like OpenAI or Google or Meta try to align and tune these models to make them do what they’re told within a certain set of rules with an uncensored model.

That means that it doesn’t have any natural bias in one direction or another.

And then it’s up to you, the operator of the model, to use it responsibly and to set the rules around it.

So that’s a third thing I think is a good third good reason to experiment with these open weights models, because what’s happening in the space now and the way it’s likely to go.

And I talked about this in a recent episode of the newsletter is that we’re going to have adversarial models.

You’ll see you’ll have one model doing the thing and another model critiquing it, saying that was racist.

Nope.

Try again.

That was insensitive.

Nope.

Try again.

That was based on wrong information.

Try again.

And so there’s kind of a QA person.

Imagine if models were people, they’d be the person doing something in a person just critiquing constantly.

Saying, Nope, try again until it got it right.

Censorship is totally fine for the outcome, right? Your business does not want to have a model spouting off racist language, right? That’s totally inappropriate.

So you absolutely want to censor the final outputs.

But the core model itself, if it’s censored, it’s damaged.

It’s intentionally damaged and it will not perform as well.

And so I think that’s something people should be experimenting with as well.

And do not, do not allow a uncensored model to interact with the general public or the customer or anybody other than your R&D team because the results will be not good.

But you should absolutely be using uncensored models at the core of your systems because they will deliver the best, most complete performance.

And then you have the adversarial model that is essentially fact-checking and correcting what comes out of the base model.

So those are three things I think that, three reasons to look at local models.

I’m going to be doing a talk on this in 2024 on this topic because I think it’s an important topic.

I think it’s an important one that we’re not thinking about when we think about how AI models work and trying to get them to do everything instead of doing one specific task and then having other specialized pieces of software correct that task in the same way that, you know, you don’t, you know, smelt and, you know, melt down raw ore in the same forge that you make, you know, swords with.

There’s different processes and different tools you need to do each task well.

And that specialization, I think, is really important when it comes to language models and generative AI in general.

The less censorship there is of the foundation model, the better it will perform.

And then you have adversarial models to correct, to supervise, and to align the outputs as to what you want the final output to be.

So really good question.

We could spend a whole lot of time on this, but it’s a really good question.

Thanks for asking.

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In today’s episode, I reveal major time savings from AI. You’ll learn the “3x rule” for automation and how to build a task list. I explain approaches to eliminate repetitive work – from writing code to summarization. You’ll benefit from higher quality outputs while skipping manual effort. Join me for actionable tips to leverage models as virtual assistants across workflows.

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In today’s episode, Amy asks, What time savings are you finding with generative AI? A lot.

Here’s the rule of thumb.

And this is a trope from programming.

The the rule of thumb and programming is, if you do it more than three times, the machine should be doing it.

If you do a task more than three times, the machine should be doing it.

And prior to the advent of generative AI, that was sort of true.

There were things that traditional programming could do, that would help automate that would help get things done.

But it took a lot of time and very, very significant technical skill to make those pieces of software.

So really, developers were the ones who were able to use the power of coding to automate many of those monotonous tasks.

Today, language models can do that with either much less coding, or no code.

at all.

So for example, suppose you’ve got a spreadsheet.

And at the end of the month, you need to make a presentation out of the spreadsheet and that spreadsheet is just kind of a hot mess.

You can directly interpret that spreadsheet, say in a tool like chat GPT with the advanced data analysis module, and say, turn this ugly spreadsheet into this coherent table so that I can make a PowerPoint presentation with it.

You can do the same thing in Microsoft Copilot, Google Duet, and so on and so forth.

Or you could say to a tool like chat GPT, help me write some code in Python that extracts all this data, puts it into this format, and then makes PowerPoint slide and I can just open up the PPT x file that it creates.

Either one of those approaches is a time savings over doing it manually, which approach you take is going to depend on your comfort level with the with the product.

Right.

So as of today, you can’t get all the way to the finished product with just a little bit of time.

language model, because there are parts of that task that are not language, language based, right, like creating a PowerPoint slide is not a language based task.

It’s a it’s a mechanical task.

When it comes to writing code, language models can do that.

And then the code can perform those mechanical tasks, the code can take a table, reformat it, use map, matplotlib, or ggplot, depending on the language you’re working in, and generate the graphic and then create a PowerPoint slide contained for the graphic.

And spit that out and boom on your desktop, there’s your slide.

But that’s the rule of thumb.

Any task you do more than three times a machine should be doing it.

So one of the first things you need to do when I talk about this a lot in the gender AI for marketers course, which you can get at Trust insights.ai slash AI course.

One of the things I talked about a lot is building out a task list.

What are the repetitive tasks that you do every day, every week, every month, every quarter, every year? Which of those tasks tasks are language based tasks? And could you get a machine to do them? Could you get a machine to take on that task of writing that summary email, or doing the executive summary on a set of slides? One thing that used to take me a ton of time in client reporting is I would go through a slide deck of reports.

And I would make manual annotations, like here’s what I see on this slide, here’s what this means.

And then in putting to the executive summary, I’d have to go through manually one slide by slide, try and remember or copy paste all the things I wrote throughout the slide deck and what a waste of time.

So I asked chat GPT one day, help me write a script that will export all the text within this, this PowerPoint.

And it took a couple iterations, but I got a Python script that does just that is dumps all the text, single text file.

And then I take that, put it into chat GPT and say out of all these notes that I made throughout this 70 slide deck, write an executive summary of 10 bullet points.

Christopher Penn: And it would go through and distill that down.

And now, instead of spending a couple hours with that very monotonous task, and I’m not really building any new information, right? I’m taking this, the notes that I already made.

It just gathers all that up summarizes it for me.

And boom, there’s my executive summary.

And the executive summary is better than I would have done.

It’s better than I would have done.

Because very often with that task, I would forget things or like, is that really important? Maybe, maybe not.

Christopher Penn: I would exercise flawed human judgment rather than taking all the text and trying to statistically summarize it down and just into a coherent cogent package.

The language models are better at that than I am.

And so not only am I using language models for a monotonous task, but the quality of my output has gone up because it’s sidestepping and circumventing my own human foibles my own flaws as a as a person as an analyst.

It takes all the information that I that I generated.

So it’s not like I’m having to do my work for me, I generated all the notes in the presentation already.

But now it’s distilling that down for me in a way that’s better than I would have done on my own.

So that’s how I would think about time savings with language models, find out all the different things that you do all the tasks that you do that are monotonous, that you do more than three times and say, Can I get a language model either to do this task for me, or help me build the tools I need to do this task? So really good question.

Thanks for asking.

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In today’s episode, Amy asks, What are your favorite use cases for AI in your workflow right now? That’s a really tough question to answer.

Because one of the things I try to do with artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI, is use it for everything, use it for as much as I can so that I can figure out what it’s not good at.

This is something that Professor Ethan Mollick of Wharton Business School talks about frequently use AI for every task that is a good fit for it.

So generative AI typically is in one of two formats, you’re either generating text, or you’re generating images.

So with text, it’s language, any kind of language based tasks, so writing a comparison, editing, coding, you name it, if it’s uses language, it’s a candidate for testing to see if artificial intelligence is a good fit to help out with that job.

And so there’s literally no task in in language, Christopher Penn: that I’m not trying to use AI for, in some capacity.

One of the things I typically don’t use it for is, believe it or not content creation, like writing new content.

And the reason for that is the the language models themselves.

Their ability to generate content is actually, believe it or not, one of the things they’re worst at they are like most, most data based pieces of software, they’re better at taking existing Christopher Penn: data and interpreting it than they are in making net new data.

That’s why you can hand a huge PDF off to a language model like the ones that power chat GPT and say, Hey, answer me these questions about this data within this PDF, and it will do a really good job really good job with that.

On the other hand, if you say make me a new research paper on this thing, it’s going to struggle, right? It’s gonna, it’s gonna require much, much more detailed prompting, much more skill and finesse.

When you look at the six major categories of use cases for generative AI, question answering, without providing the data and generation are the two things where it almost every model doesn’t do a good job with that.

And when you look at, at how these models are constructed, when you open it up and look under the hood, it makes total sense.

There’s a great talk by Andre Karpathy not too long ago saying that the foundation model, before any tuning is done before it’s made usable, the foundation models themselves hallucinate 100% of the time they just, they don’t generate coherent language, what they do is generate statistically relevant language.

And then you have things like supervised fine tuning and reinforcement learning with human feedback.

These techniques that essentially try to coerce that jumble of statistics into coherent language, meaningful language, and then to some to as good a degree as we can manage correct language.

So for example, in the older models, like the original GPT two that open AI released, gosh, been three or four years now.

If you were to ask GPT two, who the President of the United States was in 1492.

Often you would get an answer like Christopher Columbus, because you would have these statistical associations, President of the United States is associated with people of importance.

1492 is associated with Christopher Columbus, a person of importance.

And so statistically, the answer that would make the most sense to that question would be Christopher Columbus because of those associations.

That’s factually wrong, right? That is factually 100% wrong for a variety of reasons.

But statistically, in the foundation model, that makes sense.

So part of supervised fine tuning is trying to bring additional reasoning capabilities, additional senses of correctness to these language models.

So for using AI in my workflow, I use it a ton every day for coding, writing Python and R code regularly and frequently trying to automate as many repetitive tasks as I possibly can everything from interpreting spreadsheets, to downloading data to building reports reporting, at least for the work I do in the clients that I have, as part of Trust Insights.

Reporting is a huge chunk of what we do and the ability to do reporting, generate great results, high quality results, but do so using the capabilities of language models to make tools to make software is my top use case.

There, there will be so much more I would not get done on a regular basis.

If I did not have language models helping me write computer language to accomplish specific tasks.

Last week, I’m just thinking back at the week, I probably generated seven new pieces of software, seven Python scripts to deal with very specific situations that came up in client work.

Prior to language models, I would have had to write those by hand and I could have done it, I would have done it in R instead of Python, and it would have taken 1015 times the amount of time it took versus me.

Giving a detailed prompt and working with the language model to build the software for me, debugging it, you know, a couple of cycles debugging, and boom, we’re done.

So that’s my favorite use case.

It’s going to vary your favorite use case is going to vary based on the work you do and the language based work that you do or the work that you do that code can help you improve.

But one of the things that I see people not using it enough for is that code aspect.

There are many things that language models can’t do.

Well, math is one of them.

But language models can write language, like computer programming, to do the math for them.

So it’s a one step removed.

But not enough people think to themselves, if the language model can’t do it, can I have it make the tools it needs to be able to accomplish those tasks? And can I run those tools on its behalf? If you start thinking of language models, not as some sort of all knowing all powerful Oracle, instead, think of them as the world’s smartest interns, you will get you’ll be much more successful because you will be able to say, Okay, well, intern, what I really want you to do is build some software that does this.

Think of it like having a remote developer on demand, right? You work with a contractor on demand, say, I just need a piece of software to do this specific task.

And it will generate those those tools for you.

That’s my favorite use case category.

And that’s the one that I wish more people would use because it would save them so much time.

You will save time, you will save headache, and you will 2x 3x 5x 10x your productivity.

Once you’ve got your own custom tooling built by language models to help you out with as many repetitive parts of your job as you can.

So really good question.

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