> Might be good for the consumer
I find this highly unlikely as well.
I find this highly unlikely as well.
Hypothetical situation:
Healthcare/Surgery could be practically free. You slide into a machine and there is an AI running on the cloud which compares your health data with your prior states and also with billions of other records from other human beings and makes the perfect diagnosis. Then it makes the precise cut into your flesh and gives you the perfect amount of anesthesia and inserts the stent and your heart surgery is done.
You don't need a radiologist, a general practitioner, a cardiologist etc.
It could still be a net gain since vastly more people get the care they need.
Hell, Intuitive Surgcal (makers of the Davinci) already have plenty of data to run procedures automated - but they wont do that yet...
The data from recorded successful surgical procedures executed by robots but driven by human surgeons is extremely valuable data.
That will be an interesting fronteir in med when you can run diffs across thousands of surgeries to smooth out the execution tailored to each particular subject.