It may sound a bit unbelievable, but it’s actually easier to replace doctors than nurses with robots and AI. The doctor’s job is to examine, obtain test results to arrive at a diagnosis and then prescribe treatment. All these tasks can be accomplished quickly and effectively with trained AI. Of course, nursing may eventually go robotic as well.
Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari:
“Similarly, to judge by their pay, you could assume that our society appreciates doctors more than nurses. However, it is harder to automate the job of nurses than the job of at least those doctors who mostly gather medical data, provide a diagnosis, and recommend treatment. These tasks are essentially pattern recognition, and spotting patterns in data is one thing AI does better than humans. In contrast, Al is far from having the skills necessary to automate nursing tasks such as replacing bandages on an injured person or giving an injection to a crying child.
Another common but mistaken assumption is that creativity is unique to humans so it would be difficult to automate any job that requires creativity. In chess, however, computers are already far more creative than humans. The same may become true of many other fields, from composing music to proving mathematical theorems to writing books like this one. Creativity is often defined as the ability to recognize patterns and then break them. If so, then in many fields computers are likely to become more creative than us, because they excel at pattern recognition.”