Fantastic vision of a #PatientsUseAI future: "Howard, my healthcare agent"

Heart patient Hugo Campos has used LLMs for a year now. Here's his vision.

The fantasy image above comes from the phenomenal post “Howard, my healthcare agent” published yesterday by heart patient Hugo Campos. (Go read it. It’s only about 4 minutes.)

Hugo’s been using generative AI products (lots of them) for more than a year, so when he fantasizes about a possible future, he knows what he’s talking about. His vision is based both on what he wants to do (and can’t, yet) and on how such tools think.

The image above was (of course) generated by AI, specifically Dall-E, which is now built into ChatGPT. It shows a guy Hugo’s age interacting with an AI-based health advisor, which by the way is (in this future world) able to connect to his doctors’ systems. The whole story is in his post.

I’ll have a lot more to share here about how Hugo has already used AI to manage his own health and care, in partnership with his clinicians. For now, get a feel for his personality and his thinking by reading the above post.

About Hugo

Hugo Campos is a graphic designer in Oakland, California. He is highly motivated to be on top of his health status, because he has hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a genetic condition that might kill him at any moment. (Seriously. It’s motivating.)

So he has an implanted defibrillator wired into his heart, and instead of stopping there, he wants to know everything he can understand about what’s going on day by day and year by year. Because, like, he doesn’t want to die at any moment - right? And rather than expecting the docs to bear the burden of his survival, he wants to do what he can to contribute. (That’s what we call doctor-patient collaboration, partnership, participatory medicine…)

Isn’t that a great vision?

p.s. Pro tip: if you like what he wrote, say so in a comment or question over there. Bloggers love interaction!