Nvidia Wants to Replace Nurses With AI for $9 an Hour

[Morrison71]

Nvidia Wants to Replace Nurses With AI for $9 an Hour

Your health could soon be in the hands of Nvidia-powered AI nurses, and they cost your healthcare provider next to nothing.

gizmodo.com

Nvidia announced a collaboration with Hippocratic AI on Monday, a healthcare company that offers generative AI nurses who work for just $9 an hour. Hippocratic promotes how it can undercut real human nurses, who can cost $90 an hour, with its cheap AI agents that offer medical advice to patients over video calls in real-time.

"Voice-based digital agents powered by generative AI can usher in an age of abundance in healthcare, but only if the technology responds to patients as a human would," said Kimberly Powell, vice president of Healthcare at NVIDIA in a press release Monday.

Nvidia is powering Hippocratic's real-time responses over video calls. In a demo posted by Nvidia, a semi-human-looking AI agent named Rachel verbally instructs a patient on how to take penicillin. The agent then tells the patient it will report back all this information to her real human doctor. Rachel is one of many AI nurses that healthcare providers can choose from, according to one of Hippocratic's product pages. The AI nurses range in specialties from "Colonoscopy Screening" to "Breast Cancer Care Manager," all for less than minimum wage.

Hippocratic directly promotes how it can undercut the living wages of real nurses as a feature, not a bug. One page of the company's website compares a human nurse's $90 per hour salary to an AI agent's $9 an-hour running costs. Hippocratic claims its AI nurses outperform human nurses regarding bedside manner, education, and narrowly miss on satisfaction, according to a survey.

 

[The Tradition]

Nurses are cray-cray. This has to be an improvement.

 

[GOHOX69]

Nurses are cray-cray. This has to be an improvement.

No offense but you're going off the deep end. Wasn't your wife sick recently? Did she not require nursing care?

 

[hawkjt]

The US must try to dominate generative AI field to maintain our status as THE superpower in this world economically and militarily.

Read an article last weekend by a retired USAF general who talked of future warfare with "swarms" of unmanned drones in the hundreds in coordinated attacks on our new 6 billion dollar carrier.
AI will allow for coordination between hundreds of these kamikaze drones that will overwhelm our defenses. Drones cost 20k each.
Brave New World indeed.
This is another good reason for Biden's chip bill. We need to control this technology as much as possible.

 

[Hoosierhawkeye]

Yeah I don't really want an AI nurse.

 

[lucas80]

Nurses are cray-cray. This has to be an improvement.

You don't think AI can easily replace a mid level paper pusher in HR?

 

[Colonoscopy]

Yeah I don't really want an AI nurse.

Depends on the ass

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

The US must try to dominate generative AI field to maintain our status as THE superpower in this world economically and militarily.

Read an article last weekend by a retired USAF general who talked of future warfare with "swarms" of unmanned drones in the hundreds in coordinated attacks on our new 6 billion dollar carrier.
AI will allow for coordination between hundreds of these kamikaze drones that will overwhelm our defenses. Drones cost 20k each.
Brave New World indeed.
This is another good reason for Biden's chip bill. We need to control this technology as much as possible.

Just look at the drone fireworks displays…

 

[Jerome Silberman]

In a nihilistic sort of way, I think it's kind of fun how AI is taking/going to take all of the jobs of the white collar class. I think everyone assumed it would be be a continuation of automation but it pulled a fast one and went right for the creative and data based sectors.

 

[Huey Grey]

I was going to say that at least guys won't be sexually harassing AI Nurses. But let's be honest. Guys will still sexually harass AI nurses.

 

[The Tradition]

No offense but you're going off the deep end. Wasn't your wife sick recently? Did she not require nursing care?

Even at the hospital, the quality of the nurses was a mixed bag. No one knew I knew anything about nursing care. I just watched and observed.

Much like in our nursing homes, some of them were great, and some of them should find a different occupation...

 

[onlyTheObvious]

AI is going to replace a lot of stuff. Especially is once advanced robotics get better.

I will gladly take a AI robot to take care of me in 30 years vs a nursing home.

 

[Colonoscopy]

I was going to say that at least guys won't be sexually harassing AI Nurses. But let's be honest. Guys will still sexually harass AI nurses.

THERE ARENT ENOUGH GENDER DIVERSE AI NURSES

 

[desihawk]

In a nihilistic sort of way, I think it's kind of fun how AI is taking/going to take all of the jobs of the white collar class. I think everyone assumed it would be be a continuation of automation but it pulled a fast one and went right for the creative and data based sectors.

that’s the propaganda from
investors in the field. imo we are nowhere near that happening.

 

[Bank of Hawk]

AI is going to replace a lot of stuff. Especially is once advanced robotics get better.

I will gladly take a AI robot to take care of me in 30 years vs a nursing home.

Let’s be honest, and a nice AI rub and tug in the morning will be a mainstay of AI robotics.

 

[GOHOX69]

Even at the hospital, the quality of the nurses was a mixed bag. No one knew I knew anything about nursing care. I just watched and observed.

Much like in our nursing homes, some of them were great, and some of them should find a different occupation...

Isn't that true in any profession?

 

[Hawk_82]

Ai is fine for check in, but a robot cannot replace a human. Nurses care for the patients. A robot does not provide care, it performs a task.

Sick patients need a person to take care of them, if they don't have this, you will see outcomes drop quickly.

 

[Colonoscopy]

Ai is fine for check in, but a robot cannot replace a human. Nurses care for the patients. A robot does not provide care, it performs a task.

Sick patients need a person to take care of them, if they don't have this, you will see outcomes drop quickly.

Says the human...

 

[Jerome Silberman]

that’s the propaganda from
investors in the field. imo we are nowhere near that happening.

We'll see, but I see no reason to believe that tech is going to stop advancing at an accelerating rate.

 

[Hawk_82]

Says the human...

People are social creatures and we need other humans around us, especially when we are vulnerable and sick.

The hidden Covid-19 health crisis: Elderly people are dying from isolation

The lockdowns and visitor restrictions meant to protect nursing home residents from the coronavirus can also threaten their lives.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[desihawk]

We'll see, but I see no reason to believe that tech is going to stop advancing at an accelerating rate.

agree, no quibbles with that

 

[desihawk]

Let’s be honest, and a nice AI rub and tug in the morning will be a mainstay of AI robotics.

 

[Colonoscopy]

agree, no quibbles with that

hey

 

[EvilMonkeyInTheCloset]

Even at the hospital, the quality of the nurses was a mixed bag. No one knew I knew anything about nursing care. I just watched and observed.

Much like in our nursing homes, some of them were great, and some of them should find a different occupation...

As a kid with a mom (no pics) who was a nurse and eventually administration for a time, I got to hear this every time after doctor's appointments..........

 

[alaskanseminole]

The US must try to dominate generative AI field to maintain our status as THE superpower in this world economically and militarily.

Read an article last weekend by a retired USAF general who talked of future warfare with "swarms" of unmanned drones in the hundreds in coordinated attacks on our new 6 billion dollar carrier.
AI will allow for coordination between hundreds of these kamikaze drones that will overwhelm our defenses. Drones cost 20k each.
Brave New World indeed.
This is another good reason for Biden's chip bill. We need to control this technology as much as possible.

So, Spider-man No Way Home?

 

[mnole03]

AI isn’t going to replace any job that requires comfortable shoes.

 

[FAUlty Gator]

I wish I was smart enough to put a robot silhouette on that curtain there.

So, just pretend I did that and you can laugh.