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I believe this was back in September/October. That's pretty good, especially so when you consider the last time she had real hands was when she was 15 months old. Not sure what kind of prosthetic she has been using since then till this one. I'll be floored when the day when she can do thumb to index, middle, ring, pinky fingers, backward, forward, random, thumb movement only and other fingers movements only.

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This is probably going to be much more common to have something like a companion bot for check ups, teleprescene etc for the elderly. Main thing I guess is giving them a friendly face and being usable by the elderly. For us we'd be pretty comfortable with something like that but current elderly, who need this tech today, aren't as "digital native" as would be required with some stuff.

Also the "making wrong diagnosis" is something a doctor can do without technology, just your usual luditism. Slight shame they never discussed Watson, though I imagine that its own video altogether. 

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Yeah, the wrong diagnosis concern is the same bullshit "concern" that people have with self-driving cars.  "OMG, it might get in a wreck!"  Yes, because humans never ever crash their cars...

People act like you can't have computers do anything unless they can do it perfectly.  The point isn't whether it's perfect, it's whether it's better than a human.

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Honestly, if I get in a wreck, I want to be able to pin it on the computer rather than myself.

As for doctors. An AI doctor won't fucking tell me that I'm young so I should toughen up and/or I do not know when there is something wrong with my own damn body. It takes out any personal bias or preconceive notions the doctors may have.

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Honestly though, we've already seen from learning computers that they frequently learn the prejudices of society (just like human children!).  Like that FaceApp thing, that learned that people with lighter skin are considered more attractive than people with darker skin, so when you used it to apply the hotness filter it would lighten your skin.  We can try to mitigate those effects, but it's unlikely we'll be able to eliminate them altogether, especially when they're less obvious than "light skin = hot".

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This is a pretty cool concept, and something I've been thinking on for a long while. Atm we only replace limbs and appendages lost, but don't expand those that exist (though exoskeletons are starting to be a thing). A secondary thumb would be pretty cool to have, except when you want to karate chop someone.

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https://www.engadget.com/2017/08/08/Ohio-state-genetic-device-breakthrough-organ-tissue-repair/

A chip that can "inject" genetic code into skin cells, converting from one type to another, it's already been used to restore a mouse leg, and apparently also helped a mouse that had suffered a stroke, pretty cool stuff. :P \m/ \m/

 

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I'll believe it when I see it, though it seems the delivery method is using the newer "nano injection" stuff. Meant to be better for most patients since it doesn't using big ass needles and can apply injections the same way you might stick on a nicotine patch. Uses tech based on nettles I believe.

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Turns out robo jumping is hard on the crotch.

 

Also regarding the above stuff this popped into my view a couple weeks ago. It's okay, main limitation is actually the camera quality (i.e it didn't like my not super well lit room for seeing things)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.tensorflow.detect

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Based on some dismissive remarks by some coding friends it's not as sci-fi land as reports would have you think. But I don't know enough on coding either way, so I'll just nod and go "cool", until something somewhat practical arrives (i.e the promised advances Watson was to give in medical practice)

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