JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for May 12, 2024

Imagine a mechanical / electronic doctor anywhere in the United … no in THE WORLD … having the skills of the greatest human doctor ever to exist in every field of medicine and it never gets tired, never gets sleepy, never has a hangover, or a tremor or the shakes, and can work faster than any human to boot.

I had robot assisted surgery in 2017. When I read that it had tremor control, I was sold. And later when I was talking to my cardiologist about the system, the first thing he said was, “It has tremor control!”

Keep jobs to humans.

All you gotta do to be terrified is to remember who PROGRAMS the AI stuff!

I read a story about a person who passed away unexpectedly; a week later, his former coworkers were cleaning out his desk, joking about who was next in line for the job – while his family was deep in mourning. You are irreplaceable only to your loved ones.

Soon enough, medical school will be a thing of the past.

Would we dare to dream AI will sort out heath care insurance? Perhaps with quantum computers.

I thought she said she didn’t watch TV.

I guess I gotta be “that guy”: It’s not “Ai”; it’s “AI”, for Artificial Intelligence.

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Also remember that an algorithm cannot care about you, any more than a math equation written on a chalkboard can. Let tools be tools, used by people.

I know about AI, but what is Ai? (I could see the argument for the wierd spelling because in a sans-serif font a lower case ‘l’ and and upper case ‘I’ look the case , but Robb Is using a serif font.)

Technology can blind doctors and is expensive. Auscultation requires nothing more than a good stethoscope but modern doctors resort to ultrasound. Nurses could detect not only that a wound was infected but also the infecting agent by smell, but doctors waste time by waiting for results to come back from the lab.

I already have a doctor who doesn’t listen to me. (Haven’t been able to find a replacement for a great one that died.)

I think it would be cool to have a device that could scan your body and tell you what you need for you body.

A.I. has ups and downs. Hard to decide sometimes which is best.

On a related note, I’d totally watch a T.V. show called Beyond the Quantum Veil.

I am accountant with older clients and only one business client left (handful of clients in total) – the owner of same is her 80s (a child survivor of the Holocaust. She does NOT use a computer and, in general, when she has a problem with anything financial related she calls me for help.

She owns the family retail business. She had a problem with the company which handles her credit card acceptance and was confused and called me for help. She only had a web address for help so I contacted them for her. Everything involved in getting an answer went too perfectly. It was only a week or so later that it hit me – it was probably AI and not a live person I was emailing with.