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by SamPhillips 3563 days ago
Sure, but there are those 30,000-50,000[0] times a year that humans get it wrong too.

Would you rather have surgery from a human with a 90% success rate but a 0.0001% of a heroic save, or a robot with a 98% success rate, with the bonus that the robot will only be getting better with more adoption.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i...

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Please provide a reference to your comment about where robots are used completely unsupervised in surgery so we know the comparison is similar. The marketing message from autonomous car makers is that you can not only take your hands off the wheel and your eyes off the road, but also that you can put your full attention to a completely different task.