>> If robotic surgeons get really good, will tomorrow's surgeons be in the same boat as today's musicians? This requires AI on the level of humans or higher. C

>> If robotic surgeons get really good, will tomorrow's surgeons be in the same boat as today's musicians? This requires AI on the level of humans or higher. Can you really imagine a robot pediatrician playing with a child to assess developmental milestones, gagueing caregiver behavior for signs of abuse, or patiently asking questions of toothless Grandma who can't describe the symptoms without telling her whole life story? I can certainly imagine a computer taking ultrasound images and lab values as input and detecting cancer more accurately than humans can. But that's the sort of narrow task we know how to program for. I think we'll never see AI on the "replace doctors" level, but those who think we will refer to it as a "singularity", after which predictions are useless. If we ever get robot overlords, I doubt they'll want your data. Meanwhile, any job demanding hard-to-script actions will be safe.