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Elon Musk’s preposterous and possibly harmful prediction about robotic surgery

Gary Marcus
Wednesday at 22:19
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Elon Musk’s preposterous and possibly harmful prediction about robotic surgery

The idea that robots will be the best surgeons on earth anytime soon is absurd, and I challenged him about it on X:Why did I bother to offer such a bet? Here are three reasons.Elon’s timeline predictions are notoriously, and to my mind, obviously, bad, yet all too often reported as gospel. I have used bets as a way to get people to take them less seriously. The last time I offered him a million dollar bet (offer raised to $10M by Damion Hankejh) was back in April 2024, after Musk claimed that AI would exceed the intelligence of all people by the end of 2025. That of course didn’t come to pass. Indeed, in his recent interview with The Economist Musk himself quietly backpedaled to 2031, shades of his regular re-predictions...

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