This article is a brilliant piece of work and the video is well worth watching…

[Bob Cole]

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[Ron Lindeboom]

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[Bob Cole]

Ron, eight days ago I had deep abdominal surgery via Da Vinci – and a human being.

The day after surgery, he stopped in my room, and I told him about this debate. Yes, he said, the machine can record everything that he does. Yes, it has a better memory than humans. Yes, some day, AI might do it all. “BUT” … He believes that the big problem will be “vision.” Every single human he has operated on, he said, was “a snowflake.” Each one is different. And the Da Vinci’s vision is not yet acute enough to interpret what it “sees,” since it cannot possibly have seen it before.

He was already in his scrubs, being called into the OR for his next patient, and I was on some very dreamy pain meds, so that is as far as our dialog went. I don’t understand enough to interpret it in any way. Just reporting what he said. Vision, and snowflakes.

I suspect that this is a “horses for courses” argument. Some surgeries – AI will be great. Some ASPECTS of almost all surgeries – yes.

Others – not for a very long time.

[Ron Lindeboom]

Thank you Bob for at least acknowledging the conversation and addressing it with actually salient points. I almost felt like I was talking to myself for a while. I do not doubt that the future is going to see far more than we do today and that today the options are limited. But anyone who has followed the path of technology over the past 30 or 40 years, knows how fast it has grown and expanded. Thank you for leaving some room for some well documented historically vindicated expansion.

Best regards,

Ronald Lindeboom
CEO, Creative COW LLC

Creativity is a process wherein the student and the teacher are located in the same individual.