Just imagine it’s a static analyzer or something deterministic that you know reduces bug rate

OpenAI just discovered close to 1000 LPE's in Linux, yet nobody is wondering why kernel developers are still employed or what they bring to the table.

What more needs to happen before you accept that human review does not catch all the bugs that AI does?

Are you comfortable writing a C application that handles internet traffic on the internet? Well that’s the feeling I have now, if humans were reliable programmers there would be no bugs. AI is already able to pick up most mistakes, by humans and by machines. And I can tell you we all make a lot of mistakes! Be humble and use the tools at your disposal to make that better. This is not infantile, this is what a professional programmer has always done: we had static analysis, type checking, lots of tests. Would you ship code without those? If not, add AI review to your tool belt and you will see it’s probably more valuable than your other tools combined.

It was technically surgery, but my dentist asked ChatGPT which antibiotic I should take.

Amusingly, I did the same and it told me there's no point in taking more than a single dose in my uncomplicated case (prophylactically).

In some amount of future time you won't let a human near your injured kid. How else does this play out?

Potentially. Probably not in my lifetime, but it's not impossible given how most sci-fi works depict it. You can argue we had a bit of that paradigm shift already with specialized machinery. I'm sure people can still do hand surgeries, but existing tools and sensors increase the precision.

it is a bit sad comparing that to "I can't check for bugs without an AI", though.

Unlike what many programmers like to think, programming is not a skilled work on the level of surgery. And besides, many doctors probably would benefit their patients by having AI assist in their work. This has already been experimentally shown for e.g. medical imaging diagnosis.

Yes, definitely. If an android nails your procedure while you doing it manually drops it into the low, say, 60s survival rate, what would you expect? I fully expect all human workers becoming dependent very quickly once the clankers get good enough.

I sure hope so!

Imagine we had an AI system that could monitor 38 different patient signals (from blood pressure electrical activity in the brain) during a surgery and give the surgeon warnings whenever these drifted out of the expected range. It feels plausible to me that using such a system might improve surgery outcomes by, say, 20%.

I would prefer to have a surgeon who used the AI assistant rather than a surgeon who chose not to.