There is an AI hospital already.

https://www.roboticsandautomationmagazine.co.uk/news/healthcare/worlds-first-ai-hospital-with-virtual-doctors-opens-in-china.html

SpaceHodler

That's a good point, especially since some people really let dental issue fester, even more than standard medical ones. 

StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears

I guess we will have to wait and see how accurate this robot is. 


Satosora

Obviously wouldn't want to be a test subject, but automation very quickly matures to be less prone to error than a person... not to mention people that let issues fester due to capacity/cost

The only solution to the healthcare crisis worldwide is when you go to a hospital and 99 times out of 100 never see or talk to a person at all



justin_shocknet

Give the tech a few weeks to mature and it will make fewer mistakes than humans.

tech

Fully-automatic robot dentist performs world's first human procedure

Can you imagine if it makes a mistake?
Drills out the wrong tooth? 
ouch..