Testing An AI Robot After It Watched All Of My Videos

I’ve answered hundreds if not thousands of your medical questions on this channel, and I’m getting burnt out. So I thought I’d build a Doctor Mike robot, teach him to speak and think like I do, and see if he could answer questions for me. The results were… mixed. Today we talk about acne scars, passing out at the sight of blood, diabetes, stitches, breast milk for bodybuilding, LEGOs, medical school, therapy, helium, natural deodorant vs. aluminum, how to sleep, fever reduction, sunscreen, ringing ears, staring at your phone, and some sicko who wants to buy Bear.

This video isn’t one big joke, we actually pulled this off for real. I got in contact with a software engineer who specializes in Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3, an autoregressive language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text. We took the caption files of all of the videos on the Doctor Mike channel, fed them into this learning program, and it used those words as the foundation for artificial intelligence. The program is also capable of responding to questions, so after it “learned” how I speak, we fed it actual questions you have sent in and these were the responses. Each question resulted in 5-10 responses, many of which were nonsense and unintelligible. However, there was at least one clear response for each question, which is what you see in this video today. Seeing how this robot responds using my language gives me some job security that AI won’t take over medicine any time soon, but I would be curious to see how the robot would respond if you fed it several medical textbooks, as it seems lots of my natural human speech about non-medicine over the years likely threw the robot for a loop.

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[Michael-blxh]

Robot did not say: "Chest compression, chest compression, chest compression", get your money back Dr. Mike.

[bambinocinefilo]

I feel Robot Mike is the guy who writes the medical dramas…

[ElementalLeaf]

More of these please. The idea of a Chaotic evil Robot Mike answering questions and then you having to jump in to correct them is hilarious.

[костячачба]

"What's the best part of med school"
"You need a lot of therapy"
That may not be the best or intended result of med school, but the robot is right

[FORSTHILLS]

"It works 100% of the time. Maybe not for everyone, but for me." Wow Robot Dr Mike what a mood tbh

[FireCracker]

I once had a doctor who diagnosed _everything_ as a Sinus Infection. He was actually known as the "Sinus Infection doctor" in the local medical community. Robot Mike may have been his Medical School professor.

[myself]

Dr robot Mike is the type of doctor to forget a pair of scissors in someone's body after surgery.

[bwp_photography_]

It took me a while to realise Dr Mike was reading the robot answers and making himself into a robot. I was trying so hard to figure out what the hell was happening.

[adrianabrown]

Looking at the title:

Me: if this AI doesn’t mention Chest Compressions, no way it can duplicate Dr. Mike

[suger]

This had me laughing so hard. I totally lost it at “beans”.

[tigermanify]

"There is a rare condition where you can actually hear your own body sounds" - Me late at night listening to how my heart beats and getting annoyed cause it's keeping me up

[TouchTheStars]

"Used dogs" could be dogs at a shelter that had previous owners but for whatever reason ended up at the shelter. Good for the bot! Advocating adopting through a shelter :)

[debratoto]

Imagine Robot Mike suggest defibrillator rather then chest compressions.
Dr. Mike: “you’re done👆🏼you’re done👆🏼”

[miriam]

I would definitely recommend buying a used dog. Shelter dogs are wonderful!

[literatureandgaming-yt]

Reasons Why Doctor Mike Should get rid of Robot Doctor Mike:
1.) HE FAILED to say Pee WooP!
2.) No signs of chest compressions!!!

[MissesWitch]

Doctor AI Mike should be your comedy partner from now on. He's hilarious!! Haha.

He's like your best friend who's purposely saying hilarious stuff.

[rizqmadani]

pls do more of this! IT WAS SO HILARIOUS, one of my favourites vids so far 😁

[dark_knight]

What's interesting is that the AI actually does a pretty decent job of mimicking Mike's speech patterns and vocal tics, even as it's spouting nonsense.

EDIT: Since there seems to be some confusion about this, I'm talking about word choice and sentence structure; I'm fully aware that the video/audio is just Mike reading the output.

[Sid]

Ah, I think I see the problem. The AI must have taken in everything from your videos. Including the medical memes, tiktoks, and inaccurate medical dramas. Now everything makes sense.

[igirlgeek]

Dr Mike: What is a used dog? 😂
Me: A dog from an animal shelter that was given up. 🥺 It's kinder to adopt than buy from a breeder 😊