Is medical school pointless because AI robots will take over their jobs?

[Emjay24]

I read a news today where Elon Musk, said "Medical school is now pointless because AI robots will replace human surgery". This is the source: https://phoenix-browser.com/HSohXEDRE9E It reminds me of some articles and discussions about AI robots taking over people's jobs in the future.

I don't know if it's about me alone but I cannot connect to being operated upon by a programmed robot. I believe this is just another big talk by Musk to validate the efficiency AI and the future he projects where AI would be inclusive in every profession but AI itself has limitations and needs a human who understands the processes to be validating it's results.
Without such in place, I cannot fully trust it's output and it's surely not operating on me.

[Roseline492]

I read a news today where Elon Musk, said "Medical school is now pointless because AI robots will replace human surgery". This is the source: https://phoenix-browser.com/HSohXEDRE9E It reminds me of some articles and discussions about AI robots taking over people's jobs in the future. I'm wondering if this should be a concern for professionals who depend on their professions to earn money to survive? If AI takes over the Jobs of drug prescriptions and robots takes over surgeries should there be a good reason to still go to medical schools when robots can do your jobs more accurately?

Somebody who is fully into AI or inventing it would definitely hype what AI would do in the future so that they would promote there business and also make people to start looking into AI. So don't digest all the things they say about it so longs as is something that has not started or seen working. Medical is a very sensitive sector in education and is not easy for something to just come and take over without needing a human help, AI can only be a very helpful tools or innovation on the medical field but the main work is going to be done by people, so this is the only important role it will do.

[Hewlet]

If AI takes over the Jobs of drug prescriptions and robots takes over surgeries should there be a good reason to still go to medical schools when robots can do your jobs more accurately?

I am looking at a scenario where i am looking for prescription from a doctor and do not quite understand what i am going through. i go to an AI to explain it and because it is AI, it just work based on what i tell it and not based variables like the way i look as a person and the way a physical observation can open up things that ordinary statement can not reveal.

No matter how many jobs AI can take, their are sectors like the medical sector, engineering sector and some other sectors that no AI can replace the people in those sectors. even if i can easily take up an online course, i would still opt for a physical course as a better option that aids my learning because it is quite practical to learn in a physical environment that doing it remotely.

[Agbamoni]

Medical school will forever be important to humankind. AI can carry out surgeries on humans which came from a prompt that a human gives the AI. The only difference here is that AI will reduce the number of nurses and doctors employed. Meaning, medical students will be needed, but not as many as they are right now. To be sincere, I can't trust my life to AI. Because AI robots can have mechanical failure, which might lead toan accident during the surgical process. This is the reason why a human with expertise must be there to oversee the process.

[JeromeTash]

The so-called AI is still far from even being perfect and you expect to trust it with saving human lives?

Medical school is not pointless at all and being a medic is not all about skill only but also experience. I have tried to use these AI chatbots for simple tasks and most of the responses are not accurate. Same happened when a group of guys tried to use AI to trade. So many people expected the LLM to be very accurate in executing trades but most of the models did not do well

When it comes to real life experiences, Human input is still very important. AI could just help compliment but I don't thin we can relay on it 100% right now.