Nightmare fuel? Maybe – but in a historic moment for the dental profession, an AI-controlled autonomous robot has performed an entire procedure on a human patient for the first time, about eight times faster than a human dentist could do it.
OHHH NO. NOPE NOPE NOPE. FUCK OFF.
So, they finally found a way to make the robot talk to you the whole time and then scold you for talking during the procedure.
I’m thinking of the eyeball scene from dead space.
Novacaine doesn’t do a very good job of numbing me, especially as I’ve gotten older. Would a robot know to put more on once I start screaming?
Also I hate novacaine, feels bad, then I’m nauseous after.
Do you really think no humans oversee the procedure
Yeah that makes sense, I commented that after being awoken very early by cat pee on my bed.
Asimov’s laws of robotics only work when the robot knows what “harm” is. The shitty LLMs today we call “AI” are nowhere close to be trusted with an answer to “is it safe to eat this mushroom?” let alone with putting a 200000 RPM drill in their hands then let them operate on a human. It’s utterly irresponsible to give dangerous jobs to robots this soon in their development. But hey, quick profits in a PR bubble.
Later edit: All of you are right. In retrospective, my comment was stupid and doesn’t make sense in the context. The robot in question isn’t based on LLM (of course it isn’t) and isn’t general AI either, so the issue of “don’t do harm” doesn’t apply.
I’m fairly certain the machine isn’t controlled by LLMs. What would make you think that?
I’m now questioning if it is. It shouldn’t be but we’ve scene some silly tech blunders.
I mean robots fly our planes, drive our cars and run critical health devices to keep folk alive and sooooo much more that I am probably not aware of…it already happened the time to raise the alarm was a couple decades ago
At this point, the (human) dentist and patient can discuss what needs doing – but once those decisions are made, the robotic dental surgeon takes over. It plans out the operation, then jolly well goes ahead and does it.>
Whether you change your mind or not!
I get that it’s positive to serve multiple patients in the same time, but I don’t care so much about the time, as that it’s done properly.
Also obligatory: “beep boop, done with filling, proceeding with brain lobotomy”
I wonder how they get the correct data for the robot to work with. It would require AI checking xrays I suppose. That seams to be quite a bit away still. But testing will show if it’s better than a human dentist. Maybe it could use smaller instruments and cut away less healthy tooth, etc.
The system, built by Boston company Perceptive, uses a hand-held 3D volumetric scanner, which builds a detailed 3D model of the mouth, including the teeth, gums and even nerves under the tooth surface, using optical coherence tomography, or OCT…This cuts harmful X-Ray radiation out of the process, as OCT uses nothing more than light beams to build its volumetric models, which come out at high resolution, with cavities automatically detected at an accuracy rate around 90%.
Sounds amazing. Thanks
Dentist golfers in the US rejoiced at the news.
I prefer robotic procedures for things where I am under anesthesia, but for awake procedures I think im going to lean more human.
No thanks!
