Re:FDA permits marketing of AI-based device to detect diabet...
by SilasX on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @02:47PM
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In practice? Pessimistic answer:
a) Usage still requires the presence of the Doctor.
b) The doctor does nothing but relay the AI’s message.
c) The doctor continues to charge the same and treat the same number of patients.
d) Everyone who expresses “hey isn’t the doctor redundant now? Shouldn’t we be treating more patients for cheaper” gets ridiculed as “one of those people”.
e) Edit: Also, the doctors’ association devotes significant resources to come up with memetically virulent reasons why the world would end if we took doctors out of the loop.
I mean, that’s how a lot of obviated jobs are currently treated...
a) Usage still requires the presence of the Doctor.
b) The doctor does nothing but relay the AI’s message.
c) The doctor continues to charge the same and treat the same number of patients.
d) Everyone who expresses “hey isn’t the doctor redundant now? Shouldn’t we be treating more patients for cheaper” gets ridiculed as “one of those people”.
e) Edit: Also, the doctors’ association devotes significant resources to come up with memetically virulent reasons why the world would end if we took doctors out of the loop.
I mean, that’s how a lot of obviated jobs are currently treated...