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Nvidia Wants to Replace Nurses With AI for $9 an Hour (gizmodo.com)

submitted 9 months ago by Awa to c/health

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One page of the company’s website compares a human nurse’s $90 per hour salary to an AI agent’s $9 an-hour running costs. Hippocratic claims its AI nurses outperform human nurses regarding bedside manner, education, and narrowly miss on satisfaction, according to a survey.

I don't know of any tele-triage nurses that get paid $90 an hour. Moreover bedside manner does not equal telephone/video demeanor.

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[–] Badeendje 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but the pricing is then calculated on underlaying costs and estimates. And with that 90 an hour for a nurse is not weird as a basis for calculations. The nurses will get about a third of that ...I guess

[–] jeffw 1 points 9 months ago

Not really, with wages and benefits, it’s close to 90