Technology

without human help

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responded to and learned from voice commands from the team

🤨🤔

So... Judging by recent trends in AI, this will be used to devalue the labor of surgeons and be provided as the only option available to people who are not rich. People will die from what would get a human charged with neglegent homicide but, it will be covered up and, when it comes to light just how dangerous it is, nothing will happen because all of the regulatory agencies have been dismantled.

Oh good it’s voice controlled. Because that technology works amazingly all the time.

Not fair. A robot can watch videos and perform surgery but when I do it I'm called a "monster" and "quack".

But seriously, this robot surgeon still needs a surgeon to chaperone so what's being gained or saved? It's just surgery with extra steps. This has the same execution as RoboTaxis (which also have a human onboard for emergencies) and those things are rightly being called a nightmare. What separates this from that?

I want that thing where a light "paints" over wounds and they heal.

thank you for removing my gallbladder robot, but i had a brain tumor

so this helps with costs right? right? 🥺🤔🤨

So are we fully abandoning reason based robots?

Is the future gonna just be things that guess but just keep getting better at guessing?

I’m disappointed in the future.

This was a new word for me, so I had to look it up: It's an... interesting choice of words to describe the success of a robot.
Of course a robot would perform the job unflappably, it is emotionless by design. I'm pretty sure it would go right ahead and murder the patient unflappably as well. The robot "keeping its cool" is not even a question.

That said, this does sound very impressive, even if I think there's some pretty crazy risks involved. Hopefully they have more respect for the problem then self-driving car companies.

Really hope they tried it on a grape first at least.

Naturally as this kind of thing moves into use on actual people it will be used on the wealthiest and most connected among us in equal measure to us lowly plebs right.....right?

"OMG it was supposed to take out my LEFT kidney! I'm gonna die!!!!!!"

"Oops, the surgeon in the training video took out a Right kidney. Uhh... sorry."

Okay but why? No thank you.

If we go by that logic, some worker from your supermarket should be able to do surgeries

Doctors have to learns this much so they can handle most really unusual stuff, not because they have to know this for a standard surgery.

so theoretically they could make sex bots and train them on.... so they perform 'unflappably'!

SurgeonGPT?

My son's surgeon told me about the evolution of one particular cardiac procedure. Most of the "good" doctors were laying many stitches in a tight fashion while the "lazy" doctors laid down fewer stitches a bit looser. Turns out that the patients of the "lazy" doctors had a better recovery rate so now that's the standard procedure.

Sometimes divergent behaviors can actually lead to better behavior. An AI surgeon that is "lazy" probably wouldn't exist and engineers would probably stamp out that behavior before it even got to the OR.

Hold on 3P0...you gotta little piece of human stuff stuck on your right end effector clamp top hinge pin. There, all good! Continue!

It does until it doesn't