There have been many theories among politicians on all levels of government on how to make health care more accessible and affordable for Americans, but there is one idea that hasn’t been brought up: artificial intelligence.
On March 18, AI company NVIDIA announced a collaboration with Hippocratic AI as a health care company that offers AI nurses who work for $9 an hour, Gizmodo reported. The catch is the $9 fee is a tenth of the cost of a human nurse, who could cost $90 an hour. The AI nurses can offer medical advice to patients over video calls in real time.
“Voice-based digital agents powered by generative AI can usher in an age of abundance in health care, but only if the technology responds to patients as a human would,” Kimberly Powell, vice president of healthcare at NVIDIA, said, according to a press release.
In a YouTube video from NVIDIA, an actor speaks to the nurse on her iPad. The conversation mirrors a typical one from a normal nurse visit — although the cadence and tone of the nurse are more robotic and the nurse looks like a character from a video game like Grand Theft Auto or Fortnite as opposed to an actual human.
The AI nurses specialize in multiple fields from colonoscopies to breast cancer care management for slightly more than the federal minimum wage, which is $7.25.
