Elon Musk Comments

[dudadurela3]

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On the Moonshots podcast Elon Musks advises against going to medical school. As a practicing physician I can already see the changes AI is bringing. What's the attitude at colleges these days? Are people genuinely considering another career path due to Elon Musk comments? He is correct. Question is what the timing will be.

 

[SilentCavalier]

Wrong subpage for this. I don't think anyone who belongs in medicine is taking anything Elon is saying seriously. Maybe diagnostic radiology, but human connection is a necessary facet of health and healing.

 

[JPace24]

On the Moonshots podcast Elon Musks advises against going to medical school. As a practicing physician I can already see the changes AI is bringing. What's the attitude at colleges these days? Are people genuinely considering another career path due to Elon Musk comments? He is correct. Question is what the timing will be.

Elon is right? Maybe it's time hang up that stethoscope doc. Step aside for the new gen.

 

[mouseling101]

I think AI will definitely have an increasingly more prominent role in medicine, but I really cannot see AI overtaking medicine in any sort of near future. Even if it has the capabilities to function as a physician, neither myself nor nobody I know has an interest in seeing a robot vs a human physician, especially if there's a major medical concern. AI can have access to all the information in the world, but it lacks the intuition and creativity that define human-driven medical success. There are also a ton of legal challenges to wrestle with, especially in surgery: if an AI program/robot screws up, who is to blame? As someone who will start med school next year, I at least have no qualms with my chosen career path - I just can't see (in the foreseeable future) enough of the population willing to make that transition that will render human physicians useless. That's just my opinion!

 

[Snazzy_iceberg]

When AI replaces physicians, many other jobs will be replaced by AI as well. So it won't be happening for a while. Also, the majority of people don't want to talk to a robot instead of a human when discussing health, medicine, surgery, etc.