Happy Tuesday!

In todays scoop 🍨 

• 🏥 Move Over, Doc! ChatGPT Just Aced Medical School

• 🌮 Taco Bell's AI Drive-Thru: Would You Like Some Machine Learning With That?

• 🎅 Coca-Cola's AI Christmas Ad: Less Santa, More Silicon Valley

• 🔧 3 Trending AI Tools

🏥Move Over, Doc! ChatGPT Just Aced Medical School

In a plot twist that would make Dr. House drop his cane, ChatGPT just schooled human doctors in a medical diagnosis showdown. And no, we're not talking about a WebMD-style "it's definitely cancer" situation – this was the real deal.

The Showdown

Picture this: 50 doctors walk into a study 👩‍⚕️ (no, this isn't the start of a bad joke). They're given six medical mysteries to solve, competing against OpenAI's ChatGPT-4. 

Here's how the scores stacked up:

• 🥉 Doctors without ChatGPT: 74%

• 🥈 Doctors with ChatGPT: 76%

• 🥇 ChatGPT flying solo: 90%

Dr. Adam Rodman from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, who helped design the study, was "shocked." (Join the club, doc!)

Plot Twist: Doctors Need a Doctor

Here's the kicker – even when doctors had ChatGPT as their sidekick, they barely performed better than their AI-less colleagues. 

Why? Turns out they were:

1. Stubborn as mules (sorry, docs!) – refusing to believe ChatGPT when it contradicted their diagnosis

2. Using ChatGPT like it's Google circa 2005 – typing in basic questions instead of unleashing its full potential

The most entertaining part? Only a handful of doctors figured out they could just dump the entire case history into ChatGPT and let it work its magic. The rest were playing 20 questions with it like they were at a medical trivia night 🧠

Why It Matters?

Before you cancel your doctor's appointment, remember this: ChatGPT isn't replacing your doctor anytime soon. 

Think of it more like giving them a super-smart second opinion – you know, for those times when WebMD tells you your headache is actually a rare tropical disease.

The real question is: How long until we see "ChatGPT, M.D." hanging on office doors? 🤔

P.S. No doctors' egos were harmed in the making of this study (okay, maybe just a few).

🌮Taco Bell's AI Drive-Thru: Would You Like Some Machine Learning With That?

Your late-night Crunchwrap Supreme run is about to get a high-tech upgrade. Yum! Brands, the fast-food empire behind Taco Bell, KFC, and Pizza Hut, is going all-in on AI – and we're not talking about adding artificial ingredients to their secret sauce!

Drive-Thru Gets an Upgrade

Taco Bell is rolling out AI-powered drive-thrus faster than you can say "Fire Sauce." 🔥 They're targeting hundreds of U.S. locations by the end of this year, with over 100 already running across 13 states.

The best part? No more awkward "sorry, can you repeat that?" moments at 2 AM.

But Wait, There's More...

Yum's AI ambitions go way beyond taking your order. Their marketing department is playing 4D chess with AI-driven campaigns that are making traditional digital marketing look like a game of tic-tac-toe.

The results? Double-digit increases in consumer engagement and fewer customers ghosting them.

The Secret Sauce 🤫

According to Yum's digital chief Joe Park, they're using AI to:

• 🍕 Personalize emails based on your ordering habits (whether you order 4 times a week or just show up once a year - they  know about your Super Bowl pizza binges)

• 🌡️ Track everything from weather to time of day for better targeting

• ⏲️ Learn in real-time instead of waiting weeks for A/B test results

The Numbers Game 📈

• 💰️ Digital sales? Nearly $30 billion

• 📱 Digital channels? Over 50% of total sales

• 📊 AI projects in the pipeline? 40+ and counting

What's Next?

Picture this: Drive up to Taco Bell, and the menu board knows your usual order before you do. It's not sci-fi – it's their next move.

They're even testing the tech at select KFC locations, because who doesn't want AI suggesting extra crispy chicken? 🍗

Bonus Fact: Yum's digital business has more than doubled since 2019. Looks like teaching old restaurants new tech tricks is paying off.

Coca-Cola's AI Christmas Ad: Less Santa, More Silicon Valley 🎅💻

Ho-ho-hold up! 🛑 Coca-Cola just dropped their new Christmas ad, and this year, Santa's workshop got a major tech upgrade.

The beverage giant swapped their jolly old film crew for AI, turning their iconic "Holidays Are Coming" commercial into something that looks like it was directed by an algorithm having an eggnog fever dream🎬

Remember the original 1995 ad? Those majestic 40ft trucks with 30,000 light bulbs rolling through winter wonderlands? 🚛 

Well, the 2024 version is giving us... checks notes... trucks with wheels that don't spin and people sized like they've been drinking Alice's "Grow Me" potion from Wonderland.

The best part? Santa got ghosted! 🎅 The big guy only appears as a mysterious hand with a "swollen, rubbery" appearance (their words, not ours) passing out Coke Zero. Apparently, AI Santa was giving such nightmare-before-Christmas vibes that they had to keep him in witness protection.

The tech behind this 15-second masterpiece required THREE AI studios and multiple AI models, including Kling that was brought in last-minute to make humans look... well, human-ish.

One particularly troublesome squirrel took "hundreds of attempts" to get right. (Somewhere, a real squirrel actor is feeling pretty smug right now.) 🐿️

Coca-Cola's European CMO insists consumers "loved" the pre-tested version, but if social media is anything to go by, they might have missed a memo... or two.

Why'd they do it? According to Coca-Cola, it was all about bringing the ad into "today's times." This move has drawn criticism from artists worldwide, who believe that a company of their size should be supporting productions and actors.

This AI-generated winter wonderland was supposedly more "efficient" and cost-effective than traditional filming.

Though we can't help but wonder if running that squirrel scene hundreds of times might have paid for at least one real squirrel's acting career. 💸

But hey, at least the iconic "Holidays Are Coming" jingle remains untouched. Some things are still sacred... for now. 🎅

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