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.

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.

  • The Snark Urge@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    1 month ago

    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.

  • greedytacothief@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 month ago

    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.

  • 🅿🅸🆇🅴🅻@lemmy.worldEnglish
    105·
    1 month ago

    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.

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
        11·
        1 month ago

        I’m now questioning if it is. It shouldn’t be but we’ve scene some silly tech blunders.

    • Entropywins@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      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

  • SomeGuy69@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago

    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.

    • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
      3·
      1 month ago

      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%.

  • Baggins@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    1 month 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!