When Kevin Weil's son had a medical scare and he couldn't reach the doctor for 72 hours, he uploaded the confusing medical letter to ChatGPT and it immediately reassured him the results were benign.

3:46that big of a deal. At least it was not supposed to be that big of a deal. And u but there was a tiny chance that there was something more serious, you know. And so he has the surgery. He's eight. Like next day he's playing a soccer game. He doesn't know any better. But uh then we're still waiting for like the biopsy of this thing to come back. And

4:04we end up getting a uh a paper in the mail, a letter in the mail that has a whole bunch of like complex medical stuff on it, right? I'm like, you know, halfway educated. I couldn't make sense of it. I didn't know what it means. And I called the doctor and I couldn't get a hold of her. She was in a surgery, I think, and you know, she's busy. She's

4:22got a million things going on. And I'm looking at this and there's a bunch of like scary looking medical terms. Yeah. And so the first thing I do of course is take a picture of it, upload it to chatbt and say, "Hey, should I be worried about this?" And it comes back immediately. No, you're fine. This is like completely benign. Don't worry about it. You're you're all good. But I

4:40actually wasn't able to get a hold of the doctor for 72 hours. Right. That would have been a really bad 72 hours for me as a parent sitting there stressing about this note what you're describing, you know, as someone who's gone from once a day to 20 times a day. Like you you learn what it can do. You learn the kinds of things it can do. Like you can take a photo of an

5:05appliance and ask it how to set the clock or something like and so you you one of the reasons I think it expands is people come to understand all the the things it can do and all the kinds of prompts. You know another one is like like I used to do a Google search go to a web page find a number and then put that into a formula and multiply it on a

5:28calculator. It can just do all that, right? Like you can say, right, go get this and and run this. And now you can connect it to your email and your docs and your calendar and it can start to be useful in so many other ways. This, you know, what you used to have to go search through 20 docs for now you can go just ask for answers. So it's just it's so

5:46much more useful and I totally agree it the way to sort of understand it because it's also constantly evolving, right? The models get step changes better every two or three months is you just start using it. You know, the the the number one advice I have for people when they like ask what they should do with chat GPT is just start using it because when you start using it for things and you