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em_goldman t1_j6zt5pf wrote

I’m a doctor and not that surprised, the questions are very algorithmic.

Do I think AI could make medical decisions? Absolutely.

At the expense of comparing myself to Paul Atreides, for which I apologize, being a doctor is like wedding the mentat and the Bene Gesserit - your android side is entangled with your emotion witch side.

Do I think AI could de-escalate the delirious dude with meningitis who was trying to flee out the door that I saw yesterday? Nope.

AIs would make amazing matrix doctors of still, sedated patients in tanks.

Do I think that doctors could be replaced by AIs and the role of physician would be taken over by a slightly-higher-trained nurse akin to a charge nurse, and all the other nursing staff would carry out the orders that the AI places? I fuckin hope so, then I would have an excuse to retire

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monsieurpooh t1_j71a647 wrote

I don't think the AI needs nor recognizes the distinction between the emotional vs logical side; it's just optimized for a task, and there's no theoretical limitation from it being optimized for de-escalation given enough time, training data and perhaps robot body if necessary

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