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a16z · Mark Cuban on Why AI Could Turn Solo Founders Into Trillionaires
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Will AI Replace Doctors?
Mark Cuban says doctors should not be replaced, and he does not think they ever will be. A person who tries a new personalized medicine and gets sick still needs a human in the room, with all five senses, who can see a crying parent or child and add that to the context. A video or a robot is behind the moment. The model has latency, and someone still has to know which questions to ask and which variables matter.
Julie Yoo says abundant care advice will make more people demand a real visit, so the country will need more doctors, and the work can look more like a physician-scientist dealing with data that exists for one person and not yet for a population. Mark Cuban says the sharp change is
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Does AI Replace Jobs?
Mark Cuban says the healthcare workforce looks the same as any other industry, and AI does not replace jobs. People who know how to use AI replace the jobs of people who do not know how to use AI.
Over the next five years, companies still have to hire entry-level people. The minute a model is released, it is already behind, and every model has latency. New hires stay aware of what is going on, create context, act as the human in the loop, and understand the consequences. They grow with the organization and carry the history of each implementation. The same enablement has to reach the rest of the white-collar staff. The larger step is teaching the C-suite how AI works: how agents work, how t