Theodore Schwartz: belief

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…But as you say in your book, the neurosurgeons with less than five years’ experience — on average, they’re not as good. If we shorten the earlier process, you’ll end up with many more neurosurgeons who have, say, 11 years of experience. If someone tells me, “Your surgeon — he raced through everything in six years, but he has 13 years’ experience doing this operation, and here’s his track record,” I’m going to be just delighted. I’m not going to say I want someone who went through 16 years — some of which was hoop jumping — and he has only four years of doing this operation. I don’t disagree with you. Again, I’m not arguing with the training part. I think we could do it much more quickly, for sure. But as I mentioned, there’s a certain amount of maturity involved in making the decisions that we make that plays in. It’s not just years that you’ve been doing it, but it’s also wisdom. Wisdom comes with age as it does with experience. As you know, for ordinary medical diagnosis — and I do mean ordinary — even GPT-4 does slightly better than human doctors, on average. Are there parts of neurosurgery — and I don’t mean moving around your hand and making decisions on the spot — but where you think an AI model soon will just do better than the humans?…

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