The collaboration was announced at Nvidia's 2024 GTC Conference, where the company also released new AI chips, Blackwell, and expanded partnerships with several partners, including Google Cloud. Despite the potential benefits of AI in healthcare, the introduction of AI healthcare agents comes at a time when the nursing industry is facing worker shortages and strikes. Hippocratic AI's technology is not yet sufficient to make diagnoses and is trained to engage a human when necessary.
Key takeaways:
- Nvidia announced a collaboration with Hippocratic AI, a healthcare company that offers AI nurses who work for $9 an hour, significantly cheaper than human nurses who can cost $90 an hour.
- The AI nurses offer medical advice to patients over video calls in real-time and can report back information to the patient's real human doctor.
- The introduction of AI healthcare agents comes at a time when the nursing industry is dealing with worker shortages, and over 32,000 nurses went on strikes around the country in 2023.
- Despite the collaboration with Hippocratic AI, Nvidia also made other significant announcements including the release of new AI chips, Blackwell, and expanded partnerships with several partners, including Google Cloud.