Hi, everyone. Great to be here. My name is Dr. Masoud Nafey, and I'm here to talk to you a little bit about the most common AI models or large language models. These are platforms that you can use either for free or use the pro versions for roughly $20 a month. That’s pretty much the standard fee for all these models.
With the pro versions, you will get faster processing power, the latest and greatest models, and more functionality. You'll have more features available to you, and you'll be able to use the model’s computational power more. You’ll be able to process more data, and you won't get that error message saying you ran out of usage. So all of these that I'm going to speak about have a free version you can use, but the pro versions with those additional features are about $20 a month.
Next we have Anthropic's Claude. Claude is a recent takeover. A lot more people are using it, and some people have dropped their subscription from ChatGPT and moved over to Claude. These are arguably the 2 most popular large language models today. Again, there's a free version and a pro version, and you get a lot of great features with that pro version that is roughly $20 a month.
Claude is best for research, deep thinking, and strategic goals that you may have. So I would say if there's a strategy that you're struggling with for your practice or a problem you really want to solve, I'd get on Claude and start asking it questions and asking it to ask you questions to learn more about your practice and then hopefully come up with some great ideas; maybe 3 best ideas about how to tackle this problem in your practice. It's exceptional at reading anything with a lot of data in it. This could be PDFs, clinical studies, legal documents, things like that. It's best-in-class at absorbing a lot of information and summarizing it for you.
Claude also has a couple of really powerful features in the pro version. One is Projects, which can actually organize workspaces, so you can create staff training, workflow, employee handbooks, and then collaborate through it.
The pro version of Claude also has another feature called Cowork that functions like a collaborative research assistant. It allows you to synthesize information and manage multistep tasks. Cowork can literally take over your laptop and start doing things. If you try Cowork, you’ll find that it’s an amazing assistant, but you don't want to give it full access to everything on your laptop. I wouldn't trust it like that either. So just be careful about what you select and how you use it.
Claude generally has great structured reasoning. I always say the logical people of the world love Claude. An example of what you could do is just say, "Here's 5 glaucoma studies. I want you to look at and summarize clinical consensus," and then "How would I treat these types of patients based on these 5 studies?" It's really good at something like that.
It's not as creative as ChatGPT, however. Claude is a little more cautious, but it's very good at strategy and business strategy, putting together different things that you might have problems with or struggle with in your practice that you need a true consultant to help you with. It's really an intelligent research associate.
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