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're going to talk about X's Grok. Now, Grok has always done really, I would say, controversial things. It's come out with strange features sometimes, but also has wonderful functionality. It's really good at real-time internet awareness and trending topics. If you say, "What's going on in the world today?" Grok's going to answer that best out of all the tools.
We know that folks are actually using these AI models to search about your practice, and Grok can help you understand what they’re seeing. If you ask a question about what's happening in current events, maybe trends in how patients are looking at practices today online, Grok is going to probably pull up the most recent Google reviews instead of just looking at all the things that are said about you, your doctors, your practice.
Grok is also going to be really good at helping you adjust your website to work better with how patients interact with online resources today because it’s a lot more aware of what's happening in today's environment.
It's not as great for clinical questions. It's less polished for things like that, but it's a great conversational tool. It actually has fun features like Story Time, so if you ever run out of nighttime stories for your children, you can ask Grok to tell you a 10-minute story on any topic and include any of your children's names. I always say these things may not be optometrically related, but at the same time, when things are good at home, things are good at business. Grok is a great one for that, and I hope you have fun using it.
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