Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and Neuralink, sparked a heated debate in the medical community with a recent post on X.
According the CEO, robots will surpass skilled human surgeons within a few years and the best human surgeons within five years.
The post quoted a recent report about Medtronic’s Hugo robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) system, which demonstrated a 98.5% success rate in 137 urologic surgeries.
Musk’s recent prediction comes in light of Neuralink’s significant achievement: allowing Brad Smith, a nonverbal ALS patient and the third individual globally to receive a Neuralink brain implant, to communicate through his brain signals.
Musk’s Neuralink uses robotic technology to achieve precision in brain-computer electrode insertion, a task he says is “impossible” for humans due to the required speed and accuracy.
CEO of Microsoft Bill Gates, also in a recent interview with Harvard professor Arthur Brooks, elaborated on AI’s potential in diagnostics, noting that its ability to process vast amounts of information surpasses human cognition.
He stated, “The machine will probably be superior to humans because the breadth of knowledge that you need to make some of these [diagnostic] decisions really goes beyond individual human cognition.”
