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2025 version of the mechanical turk
Indeed, a case for Amazon's Mechanical Turk, a service that is shamelessly and deliberately named after its historical model. The principle has not changed after all this time: poorly paid people do the work to make it look as if machines could perform the task - as if it were an unprecedented technological breakthrough, as if it were some kind of magic.
It is a very popular thing among all the companies that claim that "artificial intelligence" was the future.
Edit: However, this does not appear to be a demonstration of autonomous technology.
Edit edit: Apparently, this was actually intended as a demonstration of autonomous technology - any source other than Reddit would be more credible.
They've already demonstrated time and again that these robots only exist so the rich can have slaves without actually having to see or interact with the slaves. They even had their robot strength nerfed so that there could be no uprising.
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Remember cyberguy? I like the energy.
With his delicate all these robots move it's nice to see one throwing some weight around. And it's holding up really well, you'd assume a connection would come loose after the first swing.
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Everything about Elon Musk is a scam.
The Indian operator just finished his shift
He meant AI as in Affordable Indians
https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/the-company-whose--ai--was-actually-700-humans-in-india.html
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Elon Musk once again proving that he's more of a Justin Hammer than a Tony Stark (who was already a problematic figure, but at least had talent and SOME sense of right and wrong)
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My optimist: surely Musk will not be able to get away with being caught in this obvious lie.
My realist: he's gonna get away with it again.
The optimistic take is that no one is that stupid.
The realistic take is that musk fanboys will claim that the robot is so advanced, that it thinks it's alive and mimics someone taking his headset off, because it has seen it.
I'm sure we'll see, "the AI was trained on human operator recordings - which unfortunately included headset removal actions, Tesla is now working to filter that from the model".
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I want to see footage of the backroom where the controllers are located so badly. Imagine how silly it must look, just a room full of people wearing VR headsets while trying to make their movements look as robotic as possible.
I was so confused, I thought it had accidentally done a Nazi salute while removing the headset and then it shut down as some sort of rule.
I had no idea that instead of a person standing there doing whatever a person controls it remotely. What a great idea for nuclear waste clean up, fucking terrible for handing out water.
Sorry to disappoint you, but there's no way this thing is usable for nuclear waste cleanup. in comparison, the cleanup crews in Chernobyl wanted to use robots to clear the graphite rubble off the roof of the power plant after the accident because of the high radiation levels there, but the radiation was crashing them pretty much instantly, forcing them to use human liquidators.
Components these days are surely even less resistant to radiation, because of much higher density parts which ensures that the memory and cache in this thing would look like after a blender treatment.
Components these days are surely even less resistant to radiation
I'd disagree, we've had 4 decades to learn how to better harden electronics in high radiation environments. off the shelf stuff? sure that would be fucked. purposely designed:
https://www.jalopnik.com/these-robots-go-into-fukushima-daiichi-so-people-don-t-1850032340/
Yeah I used to work in a chip company many years ago and we had rad hardened chips that had special outer packages instead of the normal consumer ones at a minimum. They're typically used for space stuff. Still not sure how well they'd hold up in Chernobyl in fairness.
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Have NASA design them. They already do radiation hardening for outer space.
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You can know that isn't the case because a Nazi salute would be encouraged by Musk, not shut it down.
Be funnier if the robot ripped its own head off.
I kinda clicked into here expecting that outcome
Also notice how it crushes the water bottle? Not safe to be around.
First thing I noticed. This is like standing next to a manufacturing robot, except without the black and yellow safety square that tells you how far its reach is.
"What is my purpose?"
"You hand out the water"
"Are you kidding me, billions of dollars invested. Countless hours of research. The rare materials inside my chassis cost more than you'll see in your lifetime. You know what -- actually fuck this."
Hitlerbot has left the chat
The robot apocalypse will be teleoperated from a scam compound in Myanmar.
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Upside: Service workers can now work from home
Reality: Prisoners can and will be required to work as service workers from their prison cells.
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This is something that can happen with an autonomous robot if it was trained via imitation learning, which is one of the common ways of doing things when using transformers, and transformers are in vogue right now.
But knowing how tech demonstrations usually work, it's much more likely that this is actually just a robot being remote controlled by another human.
Yeah, Elon's tech demos are usually remote controlled
Thanks I needed that
Droptimus.
Maybe it was trying to end its tortured existence like those prototype replacement models in Robocop II...
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Why it look like whoever was controlling it just took their headset off? User takes viser off robot falls from lack of user controls? Tell me this was not actually just another mechanical turk.
Reminds me of the scene from Robocop 2 when they are introducing new robocop models and one literally rips his helmet off and his skull just screams. As a kid I found it both funny and scary at the same time.
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