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Remember the painful scene in Star Wars when Padme was giving birth to Luke and Leia while Anakin was being affixed with the metallic Vader suit? In both scenes, the miserable protagonist and antagonist were assisted by robots. Their pain and screams fell on deaf ears while the AI doctors and nurses performed unemotional actions on their bodies. 

Now imagine if those scenes turned to reality? How fast would your teeth shudder and crack? 

Well that’s what Nvidia proposed earlier last week when it announced a partnership with Hippocratic AI, a startup offering AI nurses.

So far these nurses will only stick to pre-op or post-discharge or non-diagnostic care. A promo video shows an AI nurse offering a “patient” advice about how to take her prescriptions and optimize recovery following an appendectomy.

But what was wrong with regular, human nurses? 

Hippocratic claims its AI nurses are far cheaper, priced at $9/hour compared to human nurses who charge anywhere between $35 to $90/hour. Plus, the AI nurse could help alleviate a nationwide nursing shortage.

Nurses are also overworked. The Nurses’ union National Nurses United says that the shortage isn’t about pay, but understaffing, which has led to nurses leaving the field and widespread strikes.

So while AI can solve these problems for now, who knows if these AI nurses can evolve into AI doctors or GPs in the near future. 

If that does that, humans would surely be uncomfortable discussing medical issues with a phlegmatic machine. A Pew Research Center survey found that 60% of Americans would be uncomfortable with medical professionals using AI, while 79% said they don’t want AI in their mental health care.

Reddit began trading on the NYSE last week, becoming the first social media platform to go public since Pinterest in 2019. Investors were clearly excited as the stock closed 48% above the initial offering price.

But this excitement and confidence in Reddit seems a bit extra-surprising if we consider the real stats of the company. 

• For starters, Reddit isn’t profitable. In fact, it has been reporting a loss every year since its founding in 2005 (to the tune of $91 million last year). But its losses are shrinking, slimming by 43% between 2022 and 2023.
• Reddit currently monetizes its users at a fraction of what industry giant Meta achieves. Last quarter, Meta reported making $12+ for every one of its global daily active users across its Family of Apps... while Reddit reported a more modest $3.42 of revenue per daily active user. 
• Lastly, Reddit could get memed by its own users. There has already been talk on WallStreetBets about short-selling the stock.

On Friday, DoorDash announced it was testing drone delivery for orders at a Wendy’s in Virginia.

Sure a single experiment in Virginia won’t override your entire food delivery sitch overnight, but it is a sign of something you can expect soon enough — especially considering how far platforms would go to stay afloat in the highly competitive world of speedy logistics.

And if this system takes hold, your food orders might get more expensive.

Delivery platforms like DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub make money by charging delivery fees — basically a certain percentage of their in-platform sales. That percentage has already been on the rise in recent years owing to inflation and the need for 10-minute deliveries. 

So it’s easy to imagine DoorDash being able to charge restaurants and hungry customers a larger fee as its delivery system gets more efficient with a fleet of drones whizzing burgers, noodles, and pizza at 65mph.

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