There’s an interesting article on artificial intelligence and medicine at The Conversation:
I studied robotic surgery for over two years to understand how surgeons are adapting. I observed hundreds of robotic and “traditional†procedures at five hospitals and interviewed surgeons and surgical trainees at another 13 hospitals around the country. I found that robotic surgery disrupted approved approaches surgical training. Only a minority of residents found effective alternatives.
Like the surgeons I studied, we’re all going to have to adapt to AI and robotics. Old hands and new recruits will have to learn new ways to do their jobs, whether in construction, lawyering, retail, finance, warfare or childcare – no one is immune. How will we do this? And what will happen when we try?
It’s going to be a major issue over the coming years if only for the same reason that Willie Sutton robbed banks. There’s a lot more pay-off in reducing a surgeon’s hours than a hamburger-flipper’s hours. It doesn’t have any real visibility for me these days but I suspect the pushback will be immense. I sincerely doubt that the 21st practice of medicine will be the sort of medicine that most physicians want to practice or thought they were going to practice. And that isn’t limited to increasing use of artificial intelligence.
