Telesurgery

Apple Intelligence (AI)

---

1. A Chinese surgeon has performed the world’s first live transcontinental remote robotic prostate removal – an operation that was carried out in Rome on a patient in Beijing. The long-distance operation – also known as telesurgery – used a surgical console connected remotely across 8,000km (about 5,000 miles) to a set of robotic arms with the help of a 5G network and fibre-optic connections. “Telesurgery is one of the most important development directions in the future of surgery,” said Zhang Xu, director of urology at the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) General Hospital, who performed the surgery, according to a report from the PLA’s official news site. (Source: scmp.com)

---

2. Interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook:

Josh Tyrangiel: What are the most immediate benefits an Apple customer is going to get from more AI?

Tim Cook: I think they’re going to save time. Things are going to become more efficient. If you think about Siri as an example, you can now have a conversation with Siri. It can perform essentially multiple steps with one request, where today it takes multiple requests for that to occur. Writing tools: I get so many emails, and I realize everybody’s not on email, but everybody writes. And to have an assistant proofread to make things more professional or more entertaining, or whatever you want to do, is a big thing. The idea that it’s private, I think, is a very big idea in today’s world. People want to know in some kind of way that [AI] is personal to them, but also private. And these two things generally haven’t gone together very well. We found a way to thread the needle. (Read the rest. Source: washingtonpost.com)

---