stupsnon

stupsnon t1_jbe8f8y wrote

Reply to [D] I'm a dentist and during my remaining lifetime I would like to take part in laying groundwork for future autonomic robots powered by AI that are capable of performing dental procedures. What technologies should I start to learn? by Armauer

There are so many ways to tackle this, I guess I would start with a use case. Since I know absolutely nothing about dentistry, let me ask the question - what is the absolute dead simple work that seems like it could be automated? Knowing nothing, I suspect that things like teeth cleaning could be performed by a machine for most cases. You can imagine in your home having some kind of thing you stick your face in, open your mouth and a large amount of data is collected visually about your teeth. If there is a way to see plaque and calculus, ML would highlight that and say, “remove?” And you would say yes, then it would gently pick at your teeth, visually inspecting the whole way. You are probably pressing some kind of trigger the whole time, and seeing the machine work the whole time. This is so you have some sense of control and in an emergency you could just release the trigger. Of course this would only work for the standard cases, anything else would need to see a human specialist. Eventually in 40 years no one would trust the human - all use cases covered.

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stupsnon t1_izea4nw wrote

Reply to comment by blueSGL in ChatGPT will put us all out of jobs soon enough! by fayad-k

Everyone and their dog is making large models. Well, everyone who can build and train multimillion dollar models which is like 6 companies. The point is, it’s going to be intense competition. People can smell the future money, and that means it’s going to be very cheap or free for a long while as the dominant player emerges. As this is a platform play, there probably isn’t room for more than a couple winners in this market.

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