Aug. 10, 2023

From Childhood Dreams to Passion for Special Education: A Conversation with Richard Darrow Nichols

From Childhood Dreams to Passion for Special Education: A Conversation with Richard Darrow Nichols

Picture this: you're a young boy, growing up in a bustling city, surrounded by talented entertainers and national heroes. Your street's named after a president, your neighbors include the likes of the Jackson family, and you're dreaming of becoming a...

Picture this: you're a young boy, growing up in a bustling city, surrounded by talented entertainers and national heroes. Your street's named after a president, your neighbors include the likes of the Jackson family, and you're dreaming of becoming a journalist. This was the childhood of our guest, esteemed national leader, Richard Darrow Nichols. Richard's journey from his youthful dreams to his passion for special education is an inspiring tale of growth, resilience, and the transformative power of education. His anecdotes about fraternity life, the values of pride and respect it instilled, and the role of teachers and neighbors in shaping his commitment to education, bring to life the community that nurtured his success. 

Life, as we know, isn't always a bed of roses. Richard's inspiring journey has also been marked by challenges and lessons learned. His battle with prostate cancer, his involvement with the NAACP and Boy Scouts, and the role of his church community, all served as turning points in his life. Through these experiences, Richard emphasizes the importance of trust, forgiveness, and regular health assessments. His courage and resilience echo in his advice to others: "Do not fear what life throws at you, and trust God in every situation." 

In our ongoing quest to empower men of color to prioritize their health, we believe Richard's story can serve as a powerful catalyst for change. Our Healthy, Wealthy and Wise podcast aims to be a comprehensive resource, offering insights and advice to inspire and educate. Listen, learn, and share Richard Darrow Nichols' inspiring journey. Don't just be a listener, be a part of the change. Support and subscribe to our podcast today.

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The Host, Dr. William Choctaw; MD, JD, is a healthcare leadership expert, possessing a Medical Doctorate from the Yale University School of Medicine, and a Jurist Doctorate from Western University. Over a span of 50 years practicing medicine, he has served as Chief of Staff, Chief of Surgery, and as a member of the medical executive committee at Citrus Valley Medical Center over a 10 year period. Also, while practicing at Citrus Valley Medical Center, he served as Chief Transformation Officer, (developed a Robust Process Improvement/Lean Six Sigma program). Dr. Choctaw lectures nationally and internationally on medical leadership issues for hospital staffs, executives, and managers. He served as a Physician Surveyor on the Joint Commission. He's the author of 2 books, "Medical Malpractice: A Physician's Guide to the Law" and "Transforming the Patient Experience: A New Paradigm for Hospital and Physician Leadership, published by the Springer Publishing Co. He’s the President of Choctaw Medical Group, Inc., a clinical practice and medical legal consulting firm for medical staff executives, physician leaders, and hospitals.

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100:00:00,360 --> 00:00:02,305Speaker 1: Welcome to the Healthy, wealthy and Wise 200:00:02,444 --> 00:00:07,442podcast with Dr William Choctaw,MD. JD. In this episode, Dr. 300:00:07,482 --> 00:00:10,807Choctaw will continue his Leadership Masterclass series by400:00:10,807 --> 00:00:16,202covering how AI chatbots improve healthcare. One of the 500:00:16,242 --> 00:00:20,312many ways AI has manifested in healthcare is through chatbots, 600:00:20,881 --> 00:00:24,628which are computer programs designed to engage with human 700:00:24,788 --> 00:00:29,301users in natural language conversations. Dr Choctaw will 800:00:29,361 --> 00:00:34,929dive into this aspect, as well as share AI chatbots' ability to900:00:34,929 --> 00:00:39,121directly assist the medical community in various ways. Dr 1000:00:39,161 --> 00:00:43,246Choctaw will also take a look atsome of the tech companies that1100:00:43,246 --> 00:00:47,173are major players in this space, with large investments and 1200:00:47,232 --> 00:00:52,045chatbots of their own. Dr Choctaw will address the cheers 1300:00:52,365 --> 00:00:55,832and the fears regarding this transformative technology 1400:00:56,780 --> 00:01:01,331Question. Do you know what a DaVinci robot is or what it does1500:01:01,331 --> 00:01:04,906? Well, these and other questions will be answered and 1600:01:04,947 --> 00:01:08,763addressed in this podcast episode. So let's get started. 1700:01:09,584 --> 00:01:12,432Here's Dr William Choctaw, md JD. 1800:01:13,561 --> 00:01:16,924Speaker 2: We're going to talk about how artificial, 1900:01:17,045 --> 00:01:29,465intelligent chatbots improve healthcare. So buckle up, stay 2000:01:29,504 --> 00:01:34,463with me and here we go. I believe the life is about being 2100:01:34,504 --> 00:01:39,421of service to others. I believe knowledge is power. I believe 2200:01:39,522 --> 00:01:43,688leaders can change the world. Asalways, when we do the 2300:01:43,707 --> 00:01:48,900masterclass, we talk about medicine specifically and then, 2400:01:48,980 --> 00:01:53,421on top of that, we'll talk aboutlaw or legal issues. Today, 2500:01:53,441 --> 00:01:56,126we're going to talk about medicine as it interacts with 2600:01:56,266 --> 00:02:01,524artificial intelligence and finances, and we'll delineate 2700:02:01,563 --> 00:02:06,222that more as we go along. So stay with us. As always, i like 2800:02:06,263 --> 00:02:08,929to include an outline. The purpose of the outline is to let2900:02:08,929 --> 00:02:12,043you know what I'm going to talkabout. I'm going to talk about 3000:02:13,165 --> 00:02:15,610artificial intelligence specifically. We're going to 3100:02:15,651 --> 00:02:18,544define it. We believe in definitions. We're going to 3200:02:18,585 --> 00:02:23,022define what a chatbot is. We're going to define some of the 3300:02:23,082 --> 00:02:28,241different iterations of AI and the chatbot. We're going to 3400:02:28,281 --> 00:02:31,645define reasons for issues. We'regoing to talk about some of the3500:02:31,645 --> 00:02:35,072problems and fears with chatbots that individuals are 3600:02:35,111 --> 00:02:39,243going through presently, and we're going to talk about robots3700:02:39,243 --> 00:02:43,301and surgery. Yes, there are robots in surgery, don't worry. 3800:02:43,361 --> 00:02:48,361We'll explain it when we get there. I don't want to scare you3900:02:48,361 --> 00:02:52,591. Don't scare you, but they are there. But that's a good thing. 4000:02:52,711 --> 00:02:58,588That's a good thing. Okay, so what is artificial intelligence?4100:02:58,588 --> 00:03:01,735I know you've heard the term for many, many years and I know 4200:03:01,775 --> 00:03:05,100that you have an idea about whatartificial intelligence is. But4300:03:05,100 --> 00:03:08,810what do we mean when we say artificial intelligence? Let me 4400:03:08,849 --> 00:03:13,787give you a definition The simulation or approximation of 4500:03:13,927 --> 00:03:21,493human intelligence in machines. Let me give you my definition 4600:03:21,554 --> 00:03:25,725Teaching machines to think. Artificial intelligence is 4700:03:25,746 --> 00:03:31,949teaching machines to think. Now you can either be excited about 4800:03:31,969 --> 00:03:37,046that or that could scare you, and I submit that it's probably 4900:03:37,067 --> 00:03:39,514a little of both. You know that one goes through. I know it's 5000:03:39,554 --> 00:03:45,883probably a little of both that Igo through, but this is what 5100:03:45,943 --> 00:03:50,328artificial intelligence is, and I can tell you that if you're 5200:03:50,407 --> 00:03:54,352finding out or listening now about artificial intelligence, 5300:03:54,853 --> 00:04:01,282it's already probably at least the last five or 10 years. So 5400:04:01,302 --> 00:04:05,268this is Dr Chalk-Tom brain surgeon, heart surgeon, that are5500:04:05,268 --> 00:04:09,014both exciting and a little traumatizing at the same time. 5600:04:10,620 --> 00:04:14,706What is the goal of artificial intelligence? Well, the goal is 5700:04:14,826 --> 00:04:19,880computer enhanced learning, reasoning and perception. Think 5800:04:19,920 --> 00:04:25,411about that Computer enhanced learning, reasoning and 5900:04:25,492 --> 00:04:30,528perception. Think about a computer that can reason. Think 6000:04:30,567 --> 00:04:36,345about a computer that has perception. Okay, and I remember6100:04:36,345 --> 00:04:40,372we always say perception is a reality. You know, certainly in 6200:04:40,432 --> 00:04:43,624politics that's true. Whatever people perceive you are 6300:04:43,704 --> 00:04:46,468politically and in terms of how they're going to vote, is 6400:04:46,509 --> 00:04:49,940probably how you really are fromtheir perspective. But think 6500:04:49,980 --> 00:04:53,600about that. There are types of artificial intelligence. I'm 6600:04:53,620 --> 00:04:56,827just going to give you the two broad categories. That's basic 6700:04:56,928 --> 00:05:01,564pattern recognition. Now, basic pattern recognition is where you6800:05:01,564 --> 00:05:07,273give a computer or machine a certain set of data and you keep6900:05:07,273 --> 00:05:10,197giving it the same amount over and over and over again, and it 7000:05:10,298 --> 00:05:13,564learns by repetition. It keeps repeating it and repeating it 7100:05:13,584 --> 00:05:17,120and repeating it until it has itmemorized. And then there's the7200:05:17,120 --> 00:05:20,906other part of artificial intelligence, or thinking 7300:05:20,987 --> 00:05:27,182machines, if you will, complex human emotion. And I submit that7400:05:27,182 --> 00:05:30,949this is where we get into the discomfort that we humans have, 7500:05:31,029 --> 00:05:34,242and I would argue that we shouldhave, and we'll talk about this7600:05:34,242 --> 00:05:38,961a little bit later in the presentation. What is an 7700:05:39,021 --> 00:05:44,091emotional machine? Is that an oxymoron? What does that mean? A7800:05:44,091 --> 00:05:48,206machine with emotion? Think about that. Just let that 7900:05:48,365 --> 00:05:54,624marinate for a bit. One of the ways that scientists who do this8000:05:54,624 --> 00:05:57,608work, computer scientists who do this work, are able to get 8100:05:57,689 --> 00:06:01,454machines to do what they do is they use something called 8200:06:01,613 --> 00:06:05,850algorithms. Those of you in mathand those of you in engineering8300:06:05,850 --> 00:06:08,480and data management, you're very familiar with algorithms, 8400:06:08,940 --> 00:06:13,226but basically algorithms are rules that data is given to make8500:06:13,226 --> 00:06:17,413it, in my estimation, in my opinion, form a particular 8600:06:17,473 --> 00:06:22,218pattern to get something done. So this is all developed ahead 8700:06:22,257 --> 00:06:26,303of time. But so the broad umbrella of what we're talking 8800:06:26,343 --> 00:06:29,949about when we talk about AI, chat box AI stands for 8900:06:30,088 --> 00:06:34,634artificial intelligence, chat box is the broad umbrella is 9000:06:34,834 --> 00:06:40,007artificial intelligence. My definition thinking machines or 9100:06:40,067 --> 00:06:44,607teaching machines how to think. Well, what in the world is a 9200:06:44,706 --> 00:06:51,548chat box? CHATBOT? Well, obviously it's made up word that9300:06:51,548 --> 00:06:57,541chat means to talk or to speak,and bot like robot. Okay, so 9400:06:57,562 --> 00:07:04,680think of a talking robot as a chat bot. Okay, the official 9500:07:04,721 --> 00:07:08,045definition is a chat bot is a program that communicates with 9600:07:08,125 --> 00:07:14,033you, most commonly using the texts interface and artificial 9700:07:14,132 --> 00:07:20,168intelligence, when you get in your car and you use your GPS. 9800:07:22,540 --> 00:07:33,701Your GPS is not human. I don't mean a virtual bubble. That GPS 9900:07:33,740 --> 00:07:39,725is not a human. It is a chat botof type. You know it actually 10000:07:39,766 --> 00:07:43,901is a very early, rudimentary chat bot. You know, it's not 10100:07:43,920 --> 00:07:46,148even at the higher levels that we're going to talk about today,10200:07:46,148 --> 00:07:50,867but that's what a chat bot is. So how does that work in terms 10300:07:50,927 --> 00:07:55,785of where we are today? I would suggest you this is this 10400:07:55,904 --> 00:08:00,072information is in the public domain in the last six months. 10500:08:00,560 --> 00:08:03,826So this is not stuff that the public has found out about 10600:08:04,047 --> 00:08:06,833recent, you know, five or 10 years ago, even though it's been10700:08:06,833 --> 00:08:10,745around. But we're learning about it in the last six months 10800:08:10,807 --> 00:08:15,641or so and we're go with that. Remember when I talked about 10900:08:15,721 --> 00:08:22,382your academic hand computer. I eat your cell phone. It's also a11000:08:22,382 --> 00:08:26,261computer and we already talked about this. But let me sort of 11100:08:26,420 --> 00:08:33,563use that as an example to talk about the chat bot. Okay, first 11200:08:33,624 --> 00:08:42,240a bit of history. The first company to come out with a chat 11300:08:42,341 --> 00:08:47,616bot is Microsoft. Now, obviously, many of you are familiar with 11400:08:47,657 --> 00:08:51,312Microsoft If you have a computerand you may be using Microsoft 11500:08:51,331 --> 00:08:58,177software in your computer. I do,i'm old school. As a matter of 11600:08:58,217 --> 00:09:01,833fact, these presentations are done with a product of Microsoft11700:09:01,833 --> 00:09:06,498called PowerPoint. I've used PowerPoint for those 30 plus 11800:09:06,538 --> 00:09:14,399years. Microsoft is a very big, world-wide computer operating 11900:09:14,440 --> 00:09:19,578system. Microsoft basically heard about a company called 12000:09:20,019 --> 00:09:26,013OpenAI. Microsoft then decided and we'll get into this later to12100:09:26,013 --> 00:09:30,739work with this company. The very earliest form of a chat bot12200:09:30,739 --> 00:09:38,158is something that's called ChatGPT. This is from Microsoft.12300:09:38,158 --> 00:09:44,176I'm just going to deal with thebig players with computers, or 12400:09:44,235 --> 00:09:48,177talking computers, if you will. Let me just go over the list. 12500:09:48,510 --> 00:09:53,216Microsoft is the first, google is second, meta or Facebook is 12600:09:53,297 --> 00:09:59,601third and Baidu, which is the Microsoft, if you will, of China12700:09:59,601 --> 00:10:05,856. It's the last one, but Microsoft's product is called 12800:10:05,998 --> 00:10:11,860ChatGPT. Gpt just stands for some computer iterated language.12900:10:11,860 --> 00:10:15,254It doesn't really mean anythingother than that, but this is 13000:10:15,274 --> 00:10:18,816their first product. This product rolled out to the public13100:10:18,816 --> 00:10:23,6502022 last year. We're not talking about a long time, but 13200:10:23,671 --> 00:10:29,153free. Basically, it's free. It'scalled ChatGPT. Indeed, if you 13300:10:29,254 --> 00:10:33,011have a Microsoft computer, it's already on your computer. It's 13400:10:33,091 --> 00:10:36,772already there. If you don't knowwhere to look, go to your 13500:10:36,812 --> 00:10:41,671browser. Go to where you search and type in ChatGPT, and then 13600:10:41,711 --> 00:10:46,537it'll pop up. Don't be scared, it'll pop up on your computer. 13700:10:49,975 --> 00:10:59,452The very basic type of a Chatbotnamed ChatGPT. Chatgpt is the 13800:10:59,592 --> 00:11:05,592name of the Chatbot that Microsoft owns. This is called 13900:11:05,633 --> 00:11:12,336Chatbot or GPT 3.0. Now Microsoft has already, within 14000:11:12,778 --> 00:11:16,335months, come out with an advanced version of that called 14100:11:16,676 --> 00:11:25,374GPT4. Gpt4 you have to pay for. Gpt3 is free. Gpt4 you have to 14200:11:25,414 --> 00:11:29,179pay for I think it's like $40 a month or something like that. 14300:11:30,471 --> 00:11:35,615But if you have Bing, this is another operating system with 14400:11:35,735 --> 00:11:39,312Microsoft. If you have Bing on your computer, you already have 14500:11:39,373 --> 00:11:46,677GPT4 for free. Let me go over that again. Gpt3 is the early 14600:11:48,039 --> 00:11:53,115example of the Chatbot that was made by Microsoft, which is the 14700:11:53,177 --> 00:11:56,072leading country because it's outwith this technology First for 14800:11:56,091 --> 00:12:03,077the public. The advanced is GPT4, but you already have GPT4 on 14900:12:03,097 --> 00:12:07,979your computer for free. Google has a product called Bart with 15000:12:08,019 --> 00:12:12,530Palm 2. They're already coming out with their product, but 15100:12:12,551 --> 00:12:15,839they're a little behind Microsoft. Then Facebook Meta 15200:12:15,879 --> 00:12:19,912has a product called Blenderblot, and Baidu, the Chinese 15300:12:21,758 --> 00:12:25,052operating system, has one calledErnie, which I found 15400:12:25,173 --> 00:12:30,053interesting. I'm sure there's a message there, but I just don't 15500:12:30,094 --> 00:12:35,431understand it. Now just make sure that you understand what I 15600:12:35,471 --> 00:12:40,379mean by Microsoft. You are familiar with Microsoft products15700:12:40,379 --> 00:12:44,032. You'll either use Word when you type the letter, you type 15800:12:44,052 --> 00:12:49,072the paper. You may use Excel fornumbers If you do any type of 15900:12:49,193 --> 00:12:53,794number accumulation or accounting. As I mentioned about16000:12:53,794 --> 00:12:57,991PowerPoint, these are the products of Microsoft. They call16100:12:57,991 --> 00:13:06,942Microsoft Office. The company that started the Chat GPT is 16200:13:07,022 --> 00:13:11,871called OpenAI. That's at the top. This is the small company I 16300:13:11,912 --> 00:13:14,937think. Right now I think it's main office in San Francisco, 16400:13:15,149 --> 00:13:24,321california small company. It's the one that started Chat GPT. 16500:13:25,370 --> 00:13:28,192Now, i think you'll be interested in the history of how16600:13:28,192 --> 00:13:33,859this came about. Openai is the name of the company that started16700:13:33,859 --> 00:13:38,774Chat GPT. It was founded in 2015,. Not too long ago. 16800:13:39,950 --> 00:13:45,120Microsoft, being the gentle giant that it is in the tech 16900:13:45,182 --> 00:13:49,951industry, is always looking, obviously worldwide, for new 17000:13:50,030 --> 00:13:54,793technology and obviously potential competition. Microsoft17100:13:54,793 --> 00:14:00,700approached OpenAI, the company founded in 2015 in San Francisco17200:14:00,700 --> 00:14:05,918, and said we like your product,we want to invest in your 17300:14:05,957 --> 00:14:11,895product. We're going to invest one billion, with the B dollars,17400:14:11,895 --> 00:14:17,120into your company. Of course, your small startup tech company 17500:14:17,490 --> 00:14:20,894and Microsoft comes in and says they want to invest a billion 17600:14:20,933 --> 00:14:29,241dollars. What do you do? You said sure, bring it, i'll take 17700:14:29,322 --> 00:14:36,599it, stay with me. Now, four years later, 2023, this year, 17800:14:37,510 --> 00:14:43,011microsoft says we're even more impressed with your company, 17900:14:43,172 --> 00:14:49,898openai, and your product, chat GPT. We want to increase our 18000:14:49,957 --> 00:14:54,653investment to an additional 10 billion. Stay with me now. This 18100:14:54,693 --> 00:14:58,836is 11 billion dollars from Microsoft to a little company in18200:14:58,836 --> 00:15:02,618San Francisco. You may say well, why in the world is Microsoft 18300:15:02,658 --> 00:15:05,711doing that? Well, obviously, if you're a worldwide company and 18400:15:05,792 --> 00:15:09,292you've got information throughout the world and there 18500:15:09,312 --> 00:15:12,833was something Microsoft saw thatit liked, and that's that 18600:15:12,894 --> 00:15:16,859bullet point. The next bullet point that in December alone of 18700:15:16,958 --> 00:15:23,361last year, a million people signed up with Chat, gpt. A 18800:15:23,422 --> 00:15:27,686million people in one month. Okay, you think that was 18900:15:27,725 --> 00:15:32,846something. In January, the next month, over a hundred million 19000:15:32,886 --> 00:15:36,984people signed up for the same product. So what do you think 19100:15:37,004 --> 00:15:42,102Microsoft is thinking now? We got a good one here, okay. So 19200:15:42,143 --> 00:15:46,610what's my point? My point is to show you the speed of this stuff19300:15:46,610 --> 00:15:49,849. This is not stuff that happensin six months and then another 19400:15:49,908 --> 00:15:53,760three months. This is happening daily, weekly, monthly. The 19500:15:53,821 --> 00:15:58,044speed which goes along with computers. What is unique about 19600:15:58,085 --> 00:16:02,461computers compared to humans? One of the things is speed. Okay19700:16:02,461 --> 00:16:06,264, that a computer can do what I can do. The computer can do it 19800:16:06,323 --> 00:16:09,808in a second. A second is when you say one, one thousand, 19900:16:10,260 --> 00:16:13,065that's a second, that's one second. One, one thousand, two, 20000:16:13,144 --> 00:16:15,265one thousand, three, one thousand four, one thousand five20100:16:15,265 --> 00:16:18,482, one thousand Five seconds justwent by. The computer is 20200:16:18,543 --> 00:16:23,684already done then. So this is the area that we're in Now. Let 20300:16:23,705 --> 00:16:29,322me put this in context. I'm a baby boomer, i'm 75 years old. I20400:16:29,322 --> 00:16:35,462still remember rotary telephones. I remember There 20500:16:35,482 --> 00:16:40,524were no cell phones in my neighborhood. So I'm being 20600:16:40,585 --> 00:16:45,404transported now to a whole new area And, to be honest with you,20700:16:45,404 --> 00:16:51,043i find that exciting. I said cool, bring it, bring it, okay. 20800:16:51,605 --> 00:16:54,320So let's go into detail a littlemore about chatbots, and 20900:16:54,340 --> 00:16:57,802particularly as it has to do with healthcare, and I'll just 21000:16:57,841 --> 00:17:00,663go through this relatively quickly. Well, how? does this 21100:17:01,205 --> 00:17:07,307talking computer process, thinking machine, help in a 21200:17:07,347 --> 00:17:10,498hospital, whatever, whatever. Well, ironically it helps in a 21300:17:10,573 --> 00:17:15,021number of ways And I will submitto you if you are, if you get 21400:17:15,041 --> 00:17:18,420your healthcare in a large healthcare delivery system And 21500:17:18,440 --> 00:17:22,201I'm talking about a large university related healthcare 21600:17:22,221 --> 00:17:25,800delivery system or Kaiser or something like that You are 21700:17:25,881 --> 00:17:28,824already interacting with these bots and you just don't know it.21800:17:28,824 --> 00:17:33,481You think you're dealing with humans, you're not, and, believe21900:17:33,481 --> 00:17:36,343it or not, some of that is a good thing, because the robot 22000:17:36,383 --> 00:17:39,881just keeps doing what it does, it doesn't get tired, it doesn't22100:17:39,881 --> 00:17:43,144get frustrated And it just keepdoing it and doing it, and 22200:17:43,185 --> 00:17:48,343doing it. But so five ways that it works in healthcare is 22300:17:48,644 --> 00:17:51,544providing informational support.Clearly, one of the most 22400:17:51,584 --> 00:17:54,061frustrating things is about being a patient, having a family22500:17:54,061 --> 00:17:56,903member who's a patient is getting information. What's 22600:17:56,943 --> 00:17:59,369going on, why are you doing this, why are you doing that, what 22700:17:59,410 --> 00:18:02,183does this mean, What did that show? Et cetera, et cetera, et 22800:18:02,223 --> 00:18:08,065cetera. Second, scheduling appointments. Now, when I want 22900:18:08,085 --> 00:18:13,362to see my doctor or whatever, i go to my computer, i pull down 23000:18:13,382 --> 00:18:18,566the website of my healthcare delivery system I happen to have23100:18:18,566 --> 00:18:23,469Kaiser And I just dial in. I want to see blah, blah, blah for23200:18:23,469 --> 00:18:28,306X And I do it all online is my point. I never really talked to 23300:18:28,326 --> 00:18:34,384a human And I sort of like that quite honestly. It collecting 23400:18:34,424 --> 00:18:38,689patient information. Obviously, when you sign into the hospital 23500:18:38,839 --> 00:18:42,247or you go into a clinic, they have you fill out a lot of stuff23600:18:42,247 --> 00:18:46,323And all that stuff goes into a computer And that computer then 23700:18:46,363 --> 00:18:49,903becomes more knowledgeable aboutyou Providing medical 23800:18:49,963 --> 00:18:53,866assistance. When the physician wants to know more and more 23900:18:53,926 --> 00:18:58,121information, he goes to that data bank and can get it And 24000:18:58,181 --> 00:19:03,009assist in refilling. When you, if you take a lot of medication 24100:19:03,740 --> 00:19:07,663and you need to refill your medication many times, you can 24200:19:07,703 --> 00:19:13,003do that online And that process is facilitated by an artificial 24300:19:13,184 --> 00:19:18,387intelligent machine, by an artificial intelligent machine. 24400:19:19,500 --> 00:19:22,520Well, how do these chat about things help doctors? How does 24500:19:22,540 --> 00:19:27,881these computers help doctors? And let me just add here if you 24600:19:27,921 --> 00:19:32,726remember back to some of the previous masterclass lectures, 24700:19:33,160 --> 00:19:37,461we talked about the Affordable Care Act, obamacare that was 24800:19:37,541 --> 00:19:41,924passed in 2010, 13 years ago, and we mentioned that one of the24900:19:41,924 --> 00:19:46,561main factors of Obamacare was it forced healthcare to go from 25000:19:47,464 --> 00:19:52,328to computers. This is a part of that process that started 13 25100:19:52,388 --> 00:19:57,921years ago. So how do we physicians use the chatbot? Well25200:19:57,921 --> 00:20:00,566, it helps us with clinical decision support. What does that25300:20:00,566 --> 00:20:05,109mean? That means is, let's say,i admit my patient to hospital 25400:20:05,310 --> 00:20:12,169A and patients very sick, and it's a condition that you don't 25500:20:12,229 --> 00:20:17,564see very often, let's put it in that category. And so I think 25600:20:17,604 --> 00:20:21,487that I wanna do treatment A. Andso I type treatment A into the 25700:20:21,507 --> 00:20:28,361computer And the computer gives me a red X or something, and I 25800:20:28,381 --> 00:20:34,070said whoa, what's that? And the computer says that it will not 25900:20:34,131 --> 00:20:38,183accept my treatment recommendation. And then I asked26000:20:38,183 --> 00:20:42,700why? And the computer says I need to talk to X or Y or Z. My 26100:20:42,760 --> 00:20:46,781point is it is helping me with my decision regarding the 26200:20:47,103 --> 00:20:50,241treatment for that patient. That's a good thing. Medicine 26300:20:50,301 --> 00:20:54,359changes every single day And it is impossible for anybody I 26400:20:54,380 --> 00:20:57,540don't care how smart you are or what school you went to to stay 26500:20:57,641 --> 00:21:01,221up with everything that's current. On and on and on. Think26600:21:01,221 --> 00:21:05,604about an artificial intelligentchatbot computer and think 26700:21:05,644 --> 00:21:10,862about it in terms of a library, a world library. Think about a 26800:21:10,922 --> 00:21:14,144library, but it's a world library. And think about this 26900:21:14,203 --> 00:21:18,409world library that has every single book in the world in its 27000:21:18,568 --> 00:21:22,980library, and think about all thedata and information in that 27100:21:23,101 --> 00:21:28,027world library that you can download to one computer system.27200:21:28,027 --> 00:21:30,781And that's what we're talking about when we're talking about 27300:21:31,123 --> 00:21:35,143an artificial intelligent chatbox. So the computer just 27400:21:35,203 --> 00:21:38,486goes to this database and says, no, you need to do A, b and C. 27500:21:39,200 --> 00:21:41,627The same thing is with literature search procedure 27600:21:41,688 --> 00:21:45,942review. One of the very interesting areas that hospitals27700:21:45,942 --> 00:21:49,281particularly like and doctors also, is that you can get a lot 27800:21:49,321 --> 00:21:50,705of good feedback from patients. 27900:21:52,871 --> 00:21:53,372Speaker 4: Dr Choctaw 28000:21:55,546 --> 00:21:57,119Speaker 2: Quickly, let's drill down a little bit more about 28100:21:57,161 --> 00:22:00,864this artificial intelligence stuff, and particularly as it 28200:22:00,903 --> 00:22:04,565has to do with machine learning.Now on the left side you see 28300:22:06,009 --> 00:22:09,042machine learning and deep learning Again. Machine learning28400:22:09,042 --> 00:22:14,181here is that repetition type oflearning. More superficial Deep28500:22:14,181 --> 00:22:20,002learning is where you get into perceptions and reasoning and 28600:22:20,042 --> 00:22:23,503that sort of thing. Go down to the lower level, you get natural28700:22:23,503 --> 00:22:28,009language processing. This is how multiple languages around 28800:22:28,028 --> 00:22:30,982the world that has to be processed. So it means the same 28900:22:31,022 --> 00:22:37,324thing for everybody Predictive analytics. Ceos of companies 29000:22:37,585 --> 00:22:43,726love predictive analytics. Why? Let's say you're the CEO of 29100:22:43,786 --> 00:22:49,505hospital A. Hospital A has 500 beds. You have 2,000 employees 29200:22:49,565 --> 00:22:55,832in hospital A. You treat, let's say, 5,000 people in six months 29300:22:55,980 --> 00:23:00,608in hospital A, but it is problematic in terms of knowing 29400:23:01,160 --> 00:23:04,560how many staff you need on a Friday or a Sunday, how many 29500:23:04,641 --> 00:23:07,886nurses you need, how many doctors are gonna be on call, 29600:23:08,319 --> 00:23:10,422how many emergencies are you gonna get. So you have to bring 29700:23:10,482 --> 00:23:14,104in more of this and that You have to guess. You have to guess29800:23:14,104 --> 00:23:16,961And most of the times we guess wrong. I mean, because we're 29900:23:16,981 --> 00:23:21,800human. The computer, the chatbot, can do that for you And it 30000:23:21,861 --> 00:23:25,980does that for you with what it calls predictive analytics. Go 30100:23:26,040 --> 00:23:32,047back to that world library that's been downloaded to the 30200:23:32,106 --> 00:23:36,064chat box with all the world's data. It can tell you in 30300:23:36,144 --> 00:23:41,281hospital A, looking at your datafor the last year, what's your 30400:23:41,342 --> 00:23:46,240staffing is gonna be like on a Friday night in December. It can30500:23:46,240 --> 00:23:50,528tell you that It can deduce it from the data that you've given.30600:23:50,528 --> 00:23:55,121That's just extraordinary. So aCEO and executive team that has30700:23:55,121 --> 00:23:59,102that much information. Again, as an executive, your job is to 30800:23:59,143 --> 00:24:02,862predict the future, right, because you have to guess Do I 30900:24:03,564 --> 00:24:07,021add this many people, or do I get this much money? Do I take a31000:24:07,021 --> 00:24:09,644loan? blah, blah, blah. The computer can take all that away 31100:24:09,704 --> 00:24:17,563from you. Look at that third boxSentiment analytics. Sentiment 31200:24:17,864 --> 00:24:23,221analytics Well, guess what that's talking about? Sentiment 31300:24:23,323 --> 00:24:28,569analytics means that it can do abetter job of getting patient 31400:24:28,670 --> 00:24:32,603feedback that it can give to theorganization ie hospital, 31500:24:32,663 --> 00:24:36,701physician, et cetera in terms ofwhat patients think, and I 31600:24:36,740 --> 00:24:40,500think that's a good thing. I think that's a good thing. I 31700:24:40,540 --> 00:24:44,125think that's a good thing that doesn't rely on how much time I 31800:24:44,207 --> 00:24:51,281have or how relaxed I am or available I am, if you can put 31900:24:51,323 --> 00:24:54,064your thoughts and feelings and belief into a computerized 32000:24:54,084 --> 00:24:59,529system that goes directly to thepeople in charge. That's a good32100:24:59,529 --> 00:25:05,441thing. Well, i admit, this is acell phone with a I don't know 32200:25:05,500 --> 00:25:10,268a toy chat bot. I hesitate aboutputting this picture in here 32300:25:10,339 --> 00:25:15,327because I didn't want to scare anybody, but I decided to put it32400:25:15,327 --> 00:25:20,424in anyway. All right. Now the chat bot doesn't necessarily 32500:25:20,444 --> 00:25:24,789look like this. This is just, nodoubt, a computer rendition of 32600:25:24,829 --> 00:25:28,548what it is, but the point is, the chat bot is there to help 32700:25:28,628 --> 00:25:32,549you. There's no question that there are issues and concerns, 32800:25:32,780 --> 00:25:36,806and we'll talk about that a bit later But it can be of help to 32900:25:36,885 --> 00:25:39,708you And I would encourage you tolook at how it can help you 33000:25:40,339 --> 00:25:44,901Very, very quickly. And we'll just go this real fast Again 33100:25:44,961 --> 00:25:47,981hospital administration like chat bots, because some 33200:25:48,262 --> 00:25:52,887protocols and HR stuff and all the regulatory stuff that most 33300:25:52,928 --> 00:25:56,323of times is very difficult to deal with. One of the places 33400:25:56,363 --> 00:25:58,904that chat bots have been found to be helpful is with hospice. 33500:25:59,960 --> 00:26:03,682The many times individuals who are in hospice are able to 33600:26:03,741 --> 00:26:08,622communicate. Think about textinga friend. Think about texting a33700:26:08,622 --> 00:26:14,105friend who has unlimited time, limited capability and can 33800:26:14,165 --> 00:26:18,467listen to you 24 seven. Think about how therapeutic that might33900:26:18,467 --> 00:26:22,800be if you or your loved one or your family member and or loved 34000:26:22,981 --> 00:26:28,303one happen to be in a hospice situation. You want to know this34100:26:28,303 --> 00:26:34,586guy, this guy, his first name is Sam. So what is Sam doing 34200:26:34,646 --> 00:26:40,695here? Sam is actually testifyingin Congress. He started this. 34300:26:40,736 --> 00:26:44,595He and his people started, discovered it. Microsoft bought 34400:26:44,634 --> 00:26:48,914it out. It spread worldwide. ButSam look at his face, sam's a 34500:26:48,954 --> 00:26:55,916little worried. And so what he'sdoing, which is smart, he's 34600:26:55,936 --> 00:26:59,332trying to be proactive or preemptive. And he went to 34700:26:59,372 --> 00:27:02,839Congress and said I need to comeand talk to you guys in 34800:27:02,900 --> 00:27:08,440government because I've created something here that you need to 34900:27:08,500 --> 00:27:12,156be aware of and you need to start providing some regulation 35000:27:12,196 --> 00:27:16,115with it. You need to start providing some regulation with 35100:27:16,175 --> 00:27:22,013it. Right, it's not 100% accurate. So my point is that if35200:27:22,013 --> 00:27:24,432you do a query in the chat button, it gives you certain 35300:27:24,452 --> 00:27:27,596number of answers. Double check those answers another way if 35400:27:27,675 --> 00:27:32,528possible, and I would argue nothing is really 100%. Quite 35500:27:32,548 --> 00:27:38,112honestly, skepticism is never a bad thing. Never a bad thing. So35600:27:38,112 --> 00:27:41,489he says that sometimes he's worried about people using the 35700:27:41,528 --> 00:27:46,202chat bot, putting it into a political forum and then using 35800:27:46,242 --> 00:27:51,256that to spread disinformation. He's worried, legitimately, 35900:27:51,817 --> 00:27:58,290about people losing jobs, and that's obvious, right? I can 36000:27:58,311 --> 00:28:03,010remember when the main mechanical robots came out, they36100:28:03,010 --> 00:28:05,789said well, they're going to getrid of blue collar jobs. Well, 36200:28:06,250 --> 00:28:11,902the chat bot, the AI chat bot isgoing to get rid of white 36300:28:11,922 --> 00:28:20,303collar jobs writers, artists, lawyers, individuals who think 36400:28:20,864 --> 00:28:25,551for living. It can even replace artists. These chat bots can 36500:28:25,612 --> 00:28:30,291draw art, they can create, they can do everything. So just think36600:28:30,291 --> 00:28:33,751about that on the world stage. And if you happen to be a writer36700:28:33,751 --> 00:28:41,730for a Harper's company and the chat bot comes out and says I 36800:28:41,750 --> 00:28:46,990can write that 300-page book in 44 hours, right, think about 36900:28:47,070 --> 00:28:49,759time and money. And then you understand the financial 37000:28:49,878 --> 00:28:54,492implications. And think about it. Microsoft is not stupid. They 37100:28:54,553 --> 00:29:00,233didn't put $11 billion in this company because they thought 37200:29:00,253 --> 00:29:05,058that they were going to lose money. But my point is, even 37300:29:05,140 --> 00:29:09,976people who are creating the product are concerned, and Sam 37400:29:10,057 --> 00:29:14,278is an example. This is another guy. His name is Blake Lamone. 37500:29:14,971 --> 00:29:19,276He's a senior engineer or was a senior engineer for Google. So 37600:29:19,316 --> 00:29:21,151remember, they're all doing it. It's not just Microsoft, all of 37700:29:21,192 --> 00:29:27,304them are doing it. And his claimget this that the chat bot, the37800:29:27,304 --> 00:29:32,579machine, the robot, the computer had gained sentience. 37900:29:33,710 --> 00:29:36,417Now I must admit to you, i didn't know what sentience was. 38000:29:37,769 --> 00:29:40,890I don't remember hearing that word. So I looked it up And 38100:29:40,910 --> 00:29:45,680sentience means the ability to experience feelings and 38200:29:45,799 --> 00:29:50,863sensations. Think about that with your computer. Do you want 38300:29:51,104 --> 00:29:57,393a computer that has feelings andsensations? right, and Blake 38400:29:57,452 --> 00:30:01,561says that his job was to probe the chat bot. Ask it questions 38500:30:01,642 --> 00:30:04,45724-7. What do you think about this? What would you do with 38600:30:04,497 --> 00:30:06,936that? How would you handle this scenario? How did you handle 38700:30:06,957 --> 00:30:11,739that scenario? And what Blake has said is what he's learned 38800:30:12,520 --> 00:30:17,920disturbed him. It disturbed him And when he tried to talk to the38900:30:17,920 --> 00:30:21,025bosses, obviously at Google they didn't want him talking 39000:30:21,066 --> 00:30:23,115about stuff like that And they certainly didn't want him 39100:30:23,154 --> 00:30:27,662talking about it to the public. But what got Blake fired was he 39200:30:27,701 --> 00:30:32,537gave documents to the WashingtonPost newspaper to prove his 39300:30:32,596 --> 00:30:37,310fault and Google fired him. But you know he proved his point. So39400:30:37,310 --> 00:30:42,760my point is that even people who are on the inside are 39500:30:43,102 --> 00:30:46,690sounding an alarm bell. They're saying be wary of this stuff. 39600:30:47,652 --> 00:30:50,700Maybe we can't stop it, but you just need to be careful with it.39700:30:50,700 --> 00:30:56,694And thirdly, this is Jeffrey Hinton. Jeffrey Hinton is an 39800:30:56,875 --> 00:30:59,843older guy who's called the father of Artificial 39900:30:59,843 --> 00:31:05,056Intelligence. Think about that, if the father of artificial 40000:31:05,115 --> 00:31:13,085intelligence is saying I'm worried about chat GPT and 40100:31:13,747 --> 00:31:17,180computers with feelings, becauseI think these computers are 40200:31:17,220 --> 00:31:21,655going to become more intelligentthan us. Think about it Now. I 40300:31:21,675 --> 00:31:25,308would admit that I'm a movie buff and I know I'm dating a lot40400:31:25,308 --> 00:31:29,479of you, but I can remember a movie called War Games with 40500:31:29,519 --> 00:31:35,405Matthew Rodrick and the whole thing was Matthew the teenager 40600:31:35,445 --> 00:31:38,976and his girlfriend were playing around with the computer, and he40700:31:38,976 --> 00:31:42,413was trying to show off to her. So he broke into the national 40800:31:42,453 --> 00:31:48,134security computer system and started talking to one of the 40900:31:48,154 --> 00:31:50,800computers in the big computer system government computer 41000:31:50,820 --> 00:31:54,998system. And he went into the computer and the computer said 41100:31:56,750 --> 00:32:02,721would you like to play a game? And so the teenager's girlfriend41200:32:02,721 --> 00:32:05,518and giggling and playing aroundand they said sure, and so the 41300:32:05,538 --> 00:32:09,573computer gave them a list of games. You can play chess, you 41400:32:09,594 --> 00:32:12,481can play blah, blah, blah. And the teenager of course wanted to41500:32:12,481 --> 00:32:16,458impress his girlfriend and saidI want to play Thermonuclea 41600:32:16,538 --> 00:32:21,996Warfare. And the computer said OK, and the computer's name was 41700:32:22,096 --> 00:32:25,634Joshua. I remember the name. I love that movie, i watched it at41800:32:25,634 --> 00:32:29,846least 100 times And the problemwas the computer started 41900:32:29,865 --> 00:32:33,865playing the game for real And the kid couldn't stop it and the42000:32:33,865 --> 00:32:36,690adults were going crazy. But everything ended up all right. 42100:32:37,273 --> 00:32:41,252But my point is that computers are computers. The other thing 42200:32:41,292 --> 00:32:49,684that Hinton says is this processscares him. You know I didn't 42300:32:49,704 --> 00:32:52,680write down everything He said. That was one of his quotes. He 42400:32:52,700 --> 00:32:56,554said this scares me. Think aboutthe father. This is the father 42500:32:56,574 --> 00:32:59,661saying you know, one of my kids scared me, or something to that 42600:32:59,701 --> 00:33:02,779event, and his concern is, you know, he's not going to be able 42700:33:02,819 --> 00:33:08,180to play the game, that we need to have some way to control it. 42800:33:08,789 --> 00:33:12,635Now, who's gonna do that? Because the whole premise is we 42900:33:12,695 --> 00:33:19,181have a robot that has the world's library data inside of 43000:33:19,320 --> 00:33:22,690it so that it can think faster and smarter and quicker. It's 43100:33:22,770 --> 00:33:26,333like our Frankenstein to some extent Another one of my 43200:33:26,393 --> 00:33:32,076favorite movies, by the way And we built it. But then can we 43300:33:32,116 --> 00:33:35,775control it? So I don't want to scare you, but I think it is 43400:33:35,934 --> 00:33:41,613important that I give you both sides of the argument, the way I43500:33:41,613 --> 00:33:44,055look at it. And again, if you've been with us for the last43600:33:44,055 --> 00:33:48,779six months or so, you're familiar with one of my favorite43700:33:48,779 --> 00:33:52,794parts of the brain called the amygdala. Remember the amygdala?43800:33:52,794 --> 00:33:58,951The amygdala is the machine control center of the brain And 43900:33:59,071 --> 00:34:05,272I see the way I analyze this is computers don't have amygdalas 44000:34:05,573 --> 00:34:11,871yet yet. Yet Now I don't even know what an amygdala would look44100:34:11,871 --> 00:34:17,659like in a computer or whatever.But my point is the difference,44200:34:17,659 --> 00:34:20,137what I've always thought the difference between me and them 44300:34:20,610 --> 00:34:25,532is that I have emotions and theydon't. They may be smarter than44400:34:25,532 --> 00:34:30,333me, but I can love and they cannot because they don't have 44500:34:30,393 --> 00:34:35,380emotions. Well, whatever computer learns what love is 44600:34:35,989 --> 00:34:39,293because then if you learn what love is, you may learn what hate44700:34:39,293 --> 00:34:43,931is okay Then that's a whole slippery slope that you want to 44800:34:43,952 --> 00:34:50,568be careful of. So let's switch here and look specifically at 44900:34:50,608 --> 00:34:55,601healthcare. Okay, what are the areas that the chatbots are 45000:34:55,641 --> 00:34:59,177helpful in hospitals and healthcare delivery that 45100:34:59,257 --> 00:35:05,255hospitals like, and why do hospitals like them? Well, one 45200:35:05,295 --> 00:35:09,195of the reasons is, and as I mentioned before at the 45300:35:09,235 --> 00:35:14,862beginning, the use of the chatbot or the super-duper 45400:35:14,909 --> 00:35:19,351advanced thinking computer savesmoney for the hospital. That 45500:35:19,391 --> 00:35:23,112does that directly and indirectly. It provides 45600:35:23,192 --> 00:35:27,813cybersecurity, it helps with clinical trials, it helps with 45700:35:27,853 --> 00:35:32,530work assistance, it helps with nursing assistance. One of the 45800:35:32,590 --> 00:35:41,197ways that hospitals love using the robot is in surgery. In 45900:35:41,297 --> 00:35:45,972surgery Now I should share with you. As I said, i've been a 46000:35:46,032 --> 00:35:49,737surgeon for 50 years. As I mentioned before, my medical 46100:35:49,778 --> 00:35:53,030school is celebrating our 50-year anniversary, because I 46200:35:53,070 --> 00:36:01,255graduated in 1983 from Yale Medical School. The robot can 46300:36:01,375 --> 00:36:09,637generate a total close to $100, over $100 billion, just by using46400:36:09,637 --> 00:36:14,177the robot alone. Okay, this is what one of the robots looks 46500:36:14,277 --> 00:36:17,876like that's used in surgery And it's used in most types of 46600:36:17,936 --> 00:36:21,150surgery. Some are more beneficial than others. These 46700:36:21,170 --> 00:36:23,318are the ones that are very beneficial with the robot 46800:36:23,690 --> 00:36:27,114Prostate surgery, general surgery, gynecological surgery, 46900:36:27,175 --> 00:36:33,101heart surgery. This is an example of the robot being used 47000:36:33,630 --> 00:36:37,195in, say, heart surgery case. So what do you notice immediately 47100:36:37,255 --> 00:36:41,878about this picture? You're right, the surgeon is not standing at47200:36:41,878 --> 00:36:45,092the table, he's sitting off to the left side. You say wait a 47300:36:45,152 --> 00:36:47,980second. Aren't you supposed to be up there at the patient? 47400:36:48,472 --> 00:36:53,211That's the way it is on TV. Well, guess what? This is a new 47500:36:53,273 --> 00:36:58,019process And, as I said, this hasbeen around for about 15 years 47600:36:58,769 --> 00:37:04,123This is not last year, or last November, or 21 or 20 or 1918. 47700:37:05,550 --> 00:37:11,175And it is growing in usage. I know this because for the last 47800:37:11,657 --> 00:37:15,190four years, before I retired, sent and retired, i was running 47900:37:15,210 --> 00:37:19,391around the country doing accreditation work for the joint48000:37:19,391 --> 00:37:24,431commission and helping to accredited hospitals and making 48100:37:24,492 --> 00:37:27,472sure that they were following the rules, and the majority of 48200:37:27,512 --> 00:37:31,653them are doing robotic surgery in increasing numbers, 48300:37:32,436 --> 00:37:37,451increasing numbers. Another example of robotic surgery Here 48400:37:37,490 --> 00:37:40,135we have two surgeries Because a lot of times when we as a 48500:37:40,175 --> 00:37:43,110general surgeon I would be doinga case and I would maybe call 48600:37:43,130 --> 00:37:47,275it in a urologist because my thearea that I'm gonna be working 48700:37:47,315 --> 00:37:50,451in is gonna be very close to theureters or the kidney And I 48800:37:50,471 --> 00:37:55,699want a urologist in there, or a gynecologist would call me in, 48900:37:56,590 --> 00:38:01,898obstetrician would call me in because of possible bowel injury49000:38:01,898 --> 00:38:05,590. So it's not uncommon to have two physicians working. So the 49100:38:05,630 --> 00:38:10,190patient's on the table, the robot is over the patient, the 49200:38:10,269 --> 00:38:14,795nurse is standing by the table but the surgeons are at the 49300:38:14,876 --> 00:38:19,833monitors like a computer screen,computer mod. This is what the 49400:38:19,873 --> 00:38:23,791robot looks like. From a different perspective. This is 49500:38:23,831 --> 00:38:27,501probably the most famous robot is called the DaVinci XI. 49600:38:29,213 --> 00:38:34,277Surgeons love the robot. This ishow it looks like in another 49700:38:34,297 --> 00:38:38,538type of surgery. We see all the plastic over it to keep the area49800:38:38,538 --> 00:38:46,001sterile. But robotic surgery isincreasing in scope and speed 49900:38:46,222 --> 00:38:51,411in surgery. It's beneficial in surgery. One of the reasons 50000:38:51,452 --> 00:38:56,882beneficial in surgery is there'sa smaller scar for the patient.50100:38:56,882 --> 00:39:01,552Smaller scar means less postoperative pain. The surgery 50200:39:01,632 --> 00:39:05,231is more accurate because remember, this is super-duper 50300:39:05,291 --> 00:39:11,114intelligent assistant that the surgeon has and can keep the 50400:39:11,173 --> 00:39:15,411surgeon out of danger more efficiently, more effective, it 50500:39:15,472 --> 00:39:21,719helps to provide better patient care. In summary, the AI future 50600:39:21,860 --> 00:39:24,637is now. The artificial intelligence future is now. 50700:39:25,110 --> 00:39:30,514Chatbots are working right now. Today, artificial intelligence 50800:39:30,655 --> 00:39:35,976is non-human learning. The more advanced chatbox today is the 50900:39:36,036 --> 00:39:41,155ChatGPT-4 made by Microsoft. If you have Bing operating system 51000:39:41,275 --> 00:39:44,494on your Microsoft computer, you already have it for free. 51100:39:46,210 --> 00:39:49,717Chatbot is an advanced search engine that communicates 51200:39:49,838 --> 00:39:56,672verbally with the patient and with the physician. Robots have 51300:39:56,693 --> 00:40:01,777been using surgery for 15 years,as I've said, but the other 51400:40:01,838 --> 00:40:04,894side of that, though, is one needs to be cautious with the 51500:40:04,934 --> 00:40:11,675whole artificial intelligence area. If you will, and don't 51600:40:11,735 --> 00:40:16,233hesitate to think and re-evaluate and make sure that 51700:40:16,273 --> 00:40:20,815you have the most appropriate use Presently. The most advanced51800:40:20,815 --> 00:40:26,237Chatbot today is the Bing, and this is the logo that you'll see51900:40:26,237 --> 00:40:29,936on your computer screen. My basic principles is I like to 52000:40:29,998 --> 00:40:34,097always end God is in charge. As I've mentioned each and every 52100:40:34,137 --> 00:40:38,713time, god is the leader of my world. I am a physician of faith52200:40:38,713 --> 00:40:45,396, and because of that, he has sustained me and allowed me to 52300:40:45,456 --> 00:40:49,951do what I have been blessed to do. I have no bad days. I 52400:40:50,192 --> 00:40:53,121discovered many years ago that whether the day was good or bad,52500:40:53,121 --> 00:40:56,338it was up to me, and so I decided that I had had enough 52600:40:56,438 --> 00:40:59,639bad days and I didn't want it anymore. So I now only have good52700:40:59,639 --> 00:41:03,255days, so I have great days. Don't sweat the small stuff, and52800:41:03,255 --> 00:41:06,514most stuff is small. I have learned that whenever something 52900:41:06,554 --> 00:41:10,494bothers me or appears to aggravate me, it's usually not 53000:41:10,554 --> 00:41:15,494that big a deal. So I've learnedto go slow, take a step back 53100:41:16,396 --> 00:41:20,990and just not worry about stuff. Forgiveness is therapy. People 53200:41:21,050 --> 00:41:24,822will do or say things to you that may very well aggravate you53300:41:24,822 --> 00:41:30,293or bother you or hurt you or give them. Doesn't matter who's 53400:41:30,353 --> 00:41:34,313right or wrong. Just forgive them and you will be amazed that53500:41:34,313 --> 00:41:37,192not only is that the right thing to do, it is also 53600:41:37,313 --> 00:41:41,476therapeutic for you. And the fifth thing is everything is a 53700:41:41,516 --> 00:41:44,856relationship. Most relationshipsare built on three things 53800:41:45,318 --> 00:41:49,052mutual respect, mutual trust, good communication. If you have 53900:41:49,112 --> 00:41:53,291those three things, you have a good relationship. If you do not54000:41:53,291 --> 00:41:56,809have those three things, then you have some work to do to 54100:41:56,871 --> 00:42:02,010build that relationship up to where it should be. Are there 54200:42:02,030 --> 00:42:02,653any questions? 54300:42:03,871 --> 00:42:06,938Speaker 5: What if you were talking about the benefits of AI54400:42:06,938 --> 00:42:12,961in the hospitals in relation topatient satisfaction? 54500:42:13,150 --> 00:42:13,331Speaker 2: Yes. 54600:42:15,251 --> 00:42:21,623Speaker 5: Is that because of the pain that the computer will 54700:42:21,643 --> 00:42:25,538communicate with the patients before they leave, or how is 54800:42:25,637 --> 00:42:27,461that beneficial or faster? 54900:42:27,710 --> 00:42:30,771Speaker 2: Okay, let me repeat the question. The question is 55000:42:30,811 --> 00:42:34,873that on one of my slides I had some information about how the 55100:42:34,913 --> 00:42:39,530chatbot is a beneficial in termsof patient satisfaction, and is55200:42:39,530 --> 00:42:41,976that when the patient is still in the hospital or when the 55300:42:42,016 --> 00:42:48,117patient goes home? This is mainly used for survey of 55400:42:48,159 --> 00:42:52,811patients, and so it's mostly when the patient goes home in 55500:42:52,851 --> 00:42:55,813terms of patient satisfaction where the patient can give 55600:42:56,072 --> 00:43:00,650accurate and quick feedback about their experience, and 55700:43:00,690 --> 00:43:03,918that's one of the ways that it helps with patient sentiment and55800:43:03,918 --> 00:43:10,539patient experience. Also, therecould be surveys that patients 55900:43:10,559 --> 00:43:14,012would take even while they're inhospital And some hospitals do 56000:43:14,052 --> 00:43:17,041that also but they can do it very quickly with the chatbot 56100:43:17,831 --> 00:43:21,391and not have to have a person ora nurse to do that, and they 56200:43:21,411 --> 00:43:26,492can get that information faster back to the hospital. Thank you.56300:43:26,492 --> 00:43:31,215The question on one Yes, go ahead. 56400:43:35,958 --> 00:43:36,619Speaker 4: I have a question. 56500:43:37,380 --> 00:43:37,882Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead. 56600:43:38,891 --> 00:43:41,851Speaker 4: Okay, actually I havetwo questions. Yeah, in that 56700:43:41,911 --> 00:43:46,474illustration with the DaVinci robot, you had the two surgeons.56800:43:46,474 --> 00:43:51,360Like you said, this is technology that's a few years 56900:43:51,521 --> 00:43:56,019old. Has there been any growth, with those two surgeons not 57000:43:56,099 --> 00:43:59,217being in the room, perhaps beingin another city and conducting 57100:43:59,277 --> 00:43:59,778surgeries? 57200:44:01,313 --> 00:44:05,036Speaker 2: No, no One, because Ithink it would not be 57300:44:05,076 --> 00:44:09,974acceptable to do that. And two, i think you would then get into 57400:44:10,014 --> 00:44:13,902situations of error and litigation and that sort of 57500:44:13,943 --> 00:44:16,876thing. So it hasn't quite gottento that level where you could 57600:44:16,896 --> 00:44:20,655be absolutely absent. Now that may happen in the future, but 57700:44:20,675 --> 00:44:22,219presently that's not the case. 57800:44:22,690 --> 00:44:26,152Speaker 4: Okay, Thank you. And my second question is do you see57900:44:26,152 --> 00:44:30,159a day coming when those two surgeons would be completely 58000:44:30,219 --> 00:44:33,164replaced by another DaVinci robot? 58100:44:35,416 --> 00:44:43,054Speaker 2: Maybe What answer? Itis possible Because I've gotten58200:44:43,054 --> 00:44:46,311to the point now where almost anything is possible. But, to 58300:44:46,391 --> 00:44:48,614answer your question, it is possible because things are 58400:44:48,675 --> 00:44:53,643moving in the direction of the robotics doing more and more and58500:44:53,643 --> 00:44:57,498more. So that's not inconceivable, to be honest with58600:44:57,498 --> 00:44:57,639you. 58700:44:58,411 --> 00:44:59,153Speaker 4: All right, thank you.58800:45:00,309 --> 00:45:04,759Speaker 1: The tools that you'reusing. Are they the? same that 58900:45:04,778 --> 00:45:06,242they would be in your hand. 59000:45:08,112 --> 00:45:10,911Speaker 2: They're similar, as they would be in my hand, For 59100:45:11,010 --> 00:45:14,498instance. They have extensions and by sitting at the monitor 59200:45:14,637 --> 00:45:17,682I'm able to move their hand because they're an extension of 59300:45:17,724 --> 00:45:23,414me. So they're sort of similar but modified for the robot. So 59400:45:23,494 --> 00:45:26,668it's basically similar but it may be a little longer, It may 59500:45:26,708 --> 00:45:29,597have a little dissonant And remember, the robot doesn't get 59600:45:29,637 --> 00:45:34,985tired. I remember we used to talk about five, six hours 59700:45:35,045 --> 00:45:38,577surgeries and what it would be. The robot didn't get tired And 59800:45:38,617 --> 00:45:41,952remember, the surgeons are sitting. So that's another 59900:45:41,992 --> 00:45:45,659advantage too. But there's maybea slight modification of the 60000:45:45,739 --> 00:45:50,096instruments with the robot. Any other questions. 60100:45:51,411 --> 00:45:59,436Speaker 4: One last question. Back to the chatbot, the AI 60200:45:59,456 --> 00:46:02,121chatbot. there are some concernsabout accuracy of the 60300:46:02,181 --> 00:46:07,297information that's coming back, and you talked about that. Where60400:46:07,297 --> 00:46:10,905do you think that's going And how is that going to be 60500:46:10,987 --> 00:46:13,715addressed? I mean, obviously youcan't do it with legislation, 60600:46:13,775 --> 00:46:18,224but what's the tech industry doing about the accuracy of the 60700:46:18,306 --> 00:46:19,949information that's coming back from all the searches that 60800:46:19,969 --> 00:46:22,525they're doing? That's an excellent question. 60900:46:25,777 --> 00:46:28,708Speaker 2: I don't think the tech industry is doing as much 61000:46:28,768 --> 00:46:32,143as it could And I think that's why a lot of them are going to 61100:46:32,184 --> 00:46:35,193Congress and say you guys need to do something. And obviously, 61200:46:35,655 --> 00:46:41,568you know, a 65 year old man in the Senate knows less about the 61300:46:41,648 --> 00:46:46,355tech stuff than I do, so they can't do anything. I do believe 61400:46:46,375 --> 00:46:51,514that they are legitimately worried, as they should be, but 61500:46:51,675 --> 00:46:54,025I think but to answer your question specifically, i think 61600:46:54,085 --> 00:46:57,972it's a matter of buyers. Beware Those of us like me and you and 61700:46:58,074 --> 00:47:03,179others, who are end users. We have to have a certain degree of61800:47:03,179 --> 00:47:08,490organization, and health is suspicion about everything. For 61900:47:08,550 --> 00:47:12,793instance, i've started using thechatbot And I've even prepared 62000:47:12,813 --> 00:47:15,972in this presentation. I use the chatbot And I was very impressed62100:47:15,972 --> 00:47:19,594because it's so fast, you know,and literally when I put 62200:47:19,673 --> 00:47:24,481something into the, the request or the search, it starts in a 62300:47:24,621 --> 00:47:28,432second telling me what I need toknow. But I would then also go 62400:47:28,592 --> 00:47:32,710out and maybe do a different search to validate that. So I 62500:47:32,751 --> 00:47:36,329think we're going to have to do more of that sort of thing, but 62600:47:36,409 --> 00:47:39,175I think it's going to take a combination of all those things,62700:47:39,175 --> 00:47:42,480but I think we're going to haveto do our part and not just 62800:47:42,559 --> 00:47:46,652rely 100% on this accuracy. And they have actually said that the62900:47:46,652 --> 00:47:51,211areas that is weakest is opinion. Of course, if you ask 63000:47:51,311 --> 00:47:55,599it who's better Republican or Democrat, you know now, it may 63100:47:55,639 --> 00:47:59,291give you what it thinks, but it may not be accurate, and those 63200:47:59,351 --> 00:48:02,978types of questions are the ones that you have to sort of take 63300:48:03,018 --> 00:48:03,900with a grain of salt. 63400:48:05,349 --> 00:48:05,630Speaker 4: Thank you. 63500:48:08,409 --> 00:48:08,610Speaker 2: Yes. 63600:48:11,630 --> 00:48:16,253Speaker 3: Thank you so much foryour presentation. I really 63700:48:16,293 --> 00:48:20,500liked the end of it where, afteryou've given us all this news, 63800:48:20,519 --> 00:48:25,092you talk about my basic principles And you know you can 63900:48:25,152 --> 00:48:30,402feel free to use that in all of your presentations, because 64000:48:30,481 --> 00:48:33,427sometimes we need that reminder,because there's so many things 64100:48:33,467 --> 00:48:38,313going on in the world today Thatcauses us to fear And you know,64200:48:38,313 --> 00:48:42,527the word of God tells us not tofear And when fear comes it's 64300:48:42,588 --> 00:48:43,250not from God. 64400:48:44,231 --> 00:48:47,253Speaker 2: Yeah, i think I got most of what you said, but, to 64500:48:47,353 --> 00:48:51,777be honest with you, i decided todo exactly what you suggest. I 64600:48:51,856 --> 00:48:55,641do use my basic principles in every single presentation for 64700:48:55,661 --> 00:48:58,282the reason that you mentioned, because I think it's important 64800:48:58,563 --> 00:49:03,469that I not only do I give you didactic, healthcare, legal and 64900:49:03,510 --> 00:49:06,353financial information. I think it's important that there be a 65000:49:06,454 --> 00:49:10,478second message there, and that is about me personally and about65100:49:10,478 --> 00:49:14,344what I've learned and what's worked for me, and certainly my 65200:49:14,443 --> 00:49:17,632faith is a part of that. So, thank you for your suggestion 65300:49:17,954 --> 00:49:20,539And I completely agree with you and I've already decided to do 65400:49:20,579 --> 00:49:21,541that. Thank you. 65500:49:22,510 --> 00:49:26,510Speaker 3: Any other questions, i just want to. I just want to 65600:49:26,590 --> 00:49:31,556ask one more thing. With the AI intelligence, i think the 65700:49:31,597 --> 00:49:38,003concern is probably, when you consider Bible prophecy, how we 65800:49:38,043 --> 00:49:40,751are headed towards one world government. I mean, you talk 65900:49:40,791 --> 00:49:45,871about the move is there for one world religion, there's one 66000:49:45,931 --> 00:49:52,137world money then to have no borders. I'm interesting to hear66100:49:52,137 --> 00:49:57,702your take on how you see AI bringing all these one world, 66200:49:57,762 --> 00:50:02,626this and that together, and how it's going to just affect the 66300:50:02,686 --> 00:50:03,027world. 66400:50:03,951 --> 00:50:07,353Speaker 2: Well, you know, to behonest, i don't have a clue how66500:50:07,353 --> 00:50:10,538that's going to work out. I I I'm not familiar with the one 66600:50:10,557 --> 00:50:13,940world concept, but I think what one of the things that's 66700:50:14,041 --> 00:50:19,007interesting and fearful at the same time is no one knows, 12 66800:50:19,047 --> 00:50:22,911months from now, 24 months from now, 36 months from now, not 66900:50:22,971 --> 00:50:26,195what the impact is going to be with AI in multiple areas 67000:50:26,615 --> 00:50:31,422religion, healthcare, law, medicine, finance, etc. Etc. I 67100:50:31,563 --> 00:50:36,074honestly don't know. But I thinkif we have all about, if each 67200:50:36,114 --> 00:50:39,822of us has our basic principles intact, it does not matter. But 67300:50:39,862 --> 00:50:44,494the world does We stand for whatwe believe and become leaders? 67400:50:44,554 --> 00:50:47,956you know, it is not accidental that this is called a leadership67500:50:47,956 --> 00:50:52,242masterclass, because I believe,as I said in my basic 67600:50:52,262 --> 00:50:55,164principles when I start out leaders, leaders can change the 67700:50:55,204 --> 00:50:59,755world. So it's up for us to stand and be leaders in all of 67800:50:59,815 --> 00:51:03,059that chaos, if you will, and stand for what we believe is 67900:51:03,139 --> 00:51:13,492right, thank you. So, finally, thank you all so much, and I, i,68000:51:13,492 --> 00:51:16,277i like this slide. I came across this slide and I like it 68100:51:16,597 --> 00:51:18,961because we always talk about change and we talk about 68200:51:19,041 --> 00:51:22,753leadership. I like the idea of us looking at the person in the 68300:51:22,793 --> 00:51:26,320mirror and saying What, what am I doing to change the world? 68400:51:26,360 --> 00:51:29,449What am I doing to make people love each other better? What am 68500:51:29,570 --> 00:51:34,518I doing to make people happier, etc. So I like to say leave this68600:51:34,518 --> 00:51:38,469with you be the change that youwant to see in the world. Let 68700:51:38,489 --> 00:51:43,380me also say that these lectures are also on a new podcast that 68800:51:43,400 --> 00:51:47,193you will be hearing about, and so if you have, if you listen to68900:51:47,193 --> 00:51:50,757podcasts and you have a platform that you download your 69000:51:50,797 --> 00:51:54,682podcast, look us up on your platform and you'll be able to 69100:51:54,722 --> 00:51:58,175hear some of the same material. Thank you and have a wonderful 69200:51:58,215 --> 00:51:58,356day. 69300:52:28,052 --> 00:52:31,639Speaker 1: And then share it with your family, friends and or69400:52:31,639 --> 00:52:35,835your coworkers. They'll be gladyou did So. until the next time69500:52:35,835 --> 00:52:39,831, live your best possible life the best possible way.

Richard was born in Gary, Indiana to Joseph and Zeola Nichols. He is the eighth child of 12 children. He graduated from Roosevelt High School. He received his Bachelor and master's degrees from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. He majored in journalism and Secondary Education. He taught school in Gary before moving to Los Angeles in 1981. He taught in Los Angeles Unified School District for 5 years. After getting his Specialist Certificate in Severely Handicapped from California State University Dominquez Hills, he became a Special Education Teacher for 32 years. He retired from Los Angeles County Office of Education on June 29, 2018, with 40 years as an educator.

Richard was initiated into Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. on February 22, 1975. He received his 45 years pin in July 2020. He was an International Photographer for the fraternity. He is an active member of Pi Rho Chapter in San Bernardino. He is the chairperson for the Voter Registration Drive and co-chairperson for the Blood Drive.

Richard has been the founder and immediate past president of the San Gabriel Valley Bid Whist Club for 28 years. They have given over $25,000 to high school seniors.

Richard is a staff photographer for the Inland Valley News in Upland, Ca. He is also a Celebrity Photographer. He has covered a variety of social, political and religious events. He has been on the red carpets of the NAACP Image Awards, Friends of Fuller Gordy Bowling Tournament, Screen Actors Guild Awards, Heroes and Legend Awards, setting up of the Grammy Awards red c…Read More