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by Tadpole9181 324 days ago
By collecting data where you can and further generalizing models so they can perform surgeries that it wasn't specifically trained on.

Until then, the overseeing physician identifies when an edge case is happening and steps in for a manual surgery.

This isn't a mandate that every surgery must be done with an AI-powered robot, but that they are becoming more effective and cheaper than real doctors at the surgeries they can perform. So, naturally, they will become more frequently used.