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Wake up babe, new Therac-25 just dropped.
oof, I expected the article to NOT be about a medical operating room.
This article is pretty frustrating to read because it conflates many different kinds of so-called AI.

The AI plan involving LLMs and generative AI is conflated with a bunch of medical devices that are using stuff that has absolutely nothing to do with the new AI wave.

Are you saying deep learning is not AI anymore, unless it's used to train Gen AI?
No, really? I am SHOCKED.
That could probably be one failure mode.
Yea, so what is the base rate of botched surgeries?

So if the base rate is 1 out of 100 botched, and with whatever this AI stuff they are using is 3 out of 100, eh, that doesn't look good.

But if base rate is 1 out of 100 botched and 1 out of 100 with AI is botched this is a tempest in a teapot just trying to use AI outrage to get you mad without thinking.

3 years 7 instances.5 years at least 100 instances. This is in the 2nd paragraph of the article. If you have at least average reading levels you could probably read the article faster than you can make an uninformed comment.