Doctors at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London
carried out the world's first real-time AI-assisted neurosurgery to remove a
pituitary tumor; the patient has recovered. Prof Hani Marcus said the AI was
trained on several hundred pituitary procedures—more than most surgeons perform
in a career—and can act as a reliable extra pair of eyes. He said the long-term
goal is a surgeon-facing ChatGPT to provide on-demand guidance in the operating
room, which surgeons could choose to accept or ignore.