Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy

Re:Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy by PlatoIsADisease on Sunday January 18, 2026 @12:47PM (#46670122)

Your analogy doesn't work.

This patient saw 6 doctors over 2 years and they all misdiagnosed them. They were taking incredibly strong medication for the wrong diagnosis.

GPT3 in 30 seconds gave 10 diagnosis and a doctor looked up the ones they didn't know. Saw one that fit, did the confirmation test, and the patient got the surgery needed.

Cheaper and better.

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Re:Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy by shaugen on Sunday January 18, 2026 @06:26PM (#46673273)

The doctor did the diagnosis using the language model as a tool then. Impressive, but I think it’s false to imply GPT did the diagnosing.

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Re:Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy by PlatoIsADisease on Sunday January 18, 2026 @06:42PM (#46673372)

The doctor had never heard of the diagnosis prior. It was outside this doctors scope.

Like a heart doctor figured out a skeletal abnormality.

This happened with GPT3 and they were an early adopter. The patient would have gotten this in 2026 easily.

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Re:Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy by kamyarg on Sunday January 18, 2026 @07:46PM (#46673778)

Any chance you can link to the reference I can read further about this?

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