Finally, AI is being used exactly the way it should be.
A 48 year old man named Rhys Hibbert collapsed on a walk in December 2024 and had a seizure. Doctors found a tumor sitting on his pituitary gland, an area the size of a marble packed with the blood vessels and nerves that control vision. Miss by one millimeter in that spot and you get blindness, stroke, or worse.
This week at University College London Hospitals, surgeons removed that tumor with an AI system watching the live camera feed in real time, not old scans from before the operation, the actual feed as the surgeon's hands were moving.
It flagged the danger zones as they came into view and helped the team cut as close to the tumor as physically possible without touching the wrong millimeter.
Hibbert volunteered to be the first patient on Earth to have this happen live.
He said when he woke up, he could see everything in the room clearly.
For the first time in his life, a machine watched a surgeon's blade move in real time and kept a man's eyesight in the room with him.
That is not a productivity hack.
That is a miracle with a frame rate.
What do you guys think about this?