Artificial intelligence (AI) leader NVIDIA, in collaboration with healthcare company Hippocrates AI, has developed a medical robot with capabilities superior to that of a human nurse. The operating cost of this robot is about $9 per hour, a quarter of that of a human nurse.
According to Fox Business, the two companies announced that they are collaborating to create an ’empathetic healthcare medical robot’ powered by NVIDIA and trained with Hippocrates AI’s healthcare-related macro language model. This robot can communicate with humans through ‘ultra-low-latency conversational response’.
The robot has already been tested by more than 1,000 nurses and 100 doctors in the U.S., and dozens of healthcare companies are examining it internally in non-diagnostic situations. According to data submitted by the company, this robot surpasses not only competitor products such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT4 and LLaMA 270B Chat, but also human nurses in all test items. The experimental model outperformed human nurses in identifying the effects of drugs, 79% to 63%, and outperformed human nurses in identifying over-the-counter medications that are not permitted under certain conditions, 88% to 45%.
It was also superior in comparing drug values and reference ranges (96% vs. 93%), and in detecting toxic doses of over-the-counter drugs (81% vs. 57%). The two companies believe that this medical robot will help alleviate the medical workforce shortage in the United States.
“We are working with NVIDIA to continue to improve our technology and alleviate talent shortages by improving accessibility and equity,” Munjal Shah, co-founder and CEO of Hippocrates AI, said in a statement.
The cost of operating this robot is $9 per hour. Based on Bureau of Labor Statistics data, the average hourly wage for nurses in the United States in 2022 was $39.05.