{"id":185864,"date":"2024-03-23T22:24:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T03:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/nvidia-announces-ai-powered-agents-to-replace-nurses-in-hospitals"},"modified":"2024-03-23T22:24:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T03:24:51","slug":"nvidia-announces-ai-powered-agents-to-replace-nurses-in-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/nvidia-announces-ai-powered-agents-to-replace-nurses-in-hospitals","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia Announces AI-Powered \u201cAgents\u201d to Replace Nurses in Hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yg0m8eR7k24?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Because we live in a dystopian healthcare hell, AI chip manufacturer Nvidia has <a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/644f377bcdcff95fb90fd4a5\/t\/65f89c4397bc677dfc91227f\/1710791747565\/Press+Release_NVIDIA+Partnership.pdf\" class=\"\">announced<\/a> a partnership with an AI venture called Hippocratic AI to replace nurses with freaky AI \u201cagents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These phony nursing robots cost hospitals and other health providers $9 an hour, a fee that barely falls above the US minimum hourly wage, and far below the average hourly wage for registered nurses (RNs.) <\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/644f377bcdcff95fb90fd4a5\/t\/65f89c4397bc677dfc91227f\/1710791747565\/Press+Release_NVIDIA+Partnership.pdf\" class=\"\">press release<\/a>, Hippocratic AI described the disturbingly cheap nurses as part of an effort to mitigate staffing issues. The company also claims that the agents won\u2019t be doing any diagnostic work, and will instead be doing \u201clow-risk,\u201d \u201cpatient-facing\u201d tasks that can take place via video call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because we live in a dystopian healthcare hell, AI chip manufacturer Nvidia has announced a partnership with an AI venture called Hippocratic AI to replace nurses with freaky AI \u201cagents.\u201d These phony nursing robots cost hospitals and other health providers $9 an hour, a fee that barely falls above the US minimum hourly wage, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}