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by quantumduck 1438 days ago
While DALL-E might seem like something out of the world, what it outputs at the end of the day is pretty basic: a 2D image.

To run a high-fidelity simulator of human body that is useful for surgeons, you need a LOT more. And I doubt it can be data-driven. Data-driven simulators for things like autonomous cars are just coming up, and these are way simple as the agent (the autonomous car) doesn't directly change the environment when it's driving around (as in, you don't have to simulate the car colliding into a traffic pole and then breaking it, etc.)

To simulate a human body, you need to be able to capture the material properties of different layers, some of which are fluids, and then also the interaction between them and how different organs react to a surgical operation. It's a very hard problem.

Why do all that when you have animal corpses readily available? There's no need to create a problem that doesn't exist.