Will AI replace the medical profession that so many of us no longer trust? Will AI be trustworthy? From Ben Bartee at armageddonprose.com:
Dr. Oz: AI to replace doctors in Medicare, Medicaid provision
“An apple a day keeps the robot white-coats away,” went the received wisdom from my Midwestern Irish-Catholic grandmammy, which she used to serenade me with through puffs of Virginia Slims.
She had polio as a kid, she often reminded me, and seemingly ended up just fine.
Via Wired (emphasis added):
“Dr. Mehmet Oz, the new administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), spent much of his first all-staff meeting on Monday promoting the use of artificial intelligence at the agency and praising Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again Initiative,” sources tell WIRED.
During the meeting, Oz discussed possibly prioritizing AI avatars over frontline health care workers.
Oz claimed that if a patient went to a doctor for a diabetes diagnosis, it would be $100 per hour, while an appointment with an AI avatar would cost considerably less, at just $2 an hour. Oz also claimed that patients have rated the care they’ve received from an AI avatar as equal to or better than a human doctor. (Research suggests patients are actually more skeptical of medical advice given by AI.) Because of technologies like machine learning and AI, Oz claimed, it is now possible to scale “good ideas” in an affordable and fast way.”
I’m of two minds on this.
But Average Intelligence won’t make cutesy dance videos during the Black Death 2.0? (honk)
Nursed myself back from stroke 2.0 with apples and yogurt.
Couldn’t make it out of the end of the neighborhood tree line when I first got out, now I’m walking all over.
Blessed with professor doctor that I don’t see again until next month.
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