• Deez@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Is the future just having a human slave in a third world country strap into VR and carry your groceries for you?

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    We live in a fucking nightmare. Rich assholes wining and dining with robots while most of the world fucking suffers. It’s actually crazy. We are bringing into our reality what was just a bad dream like 50 years ago. This is just wild man.

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    2 months ago

    Whaaaat? A company whose market valuation is almost entirely built on a perpetual lie about automation they are delivering “someday” lied about their ability to deliver automation??

    I am shocked, I tell you. Shocked.

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    The people apologizing for this sort of behavior, even here, just shows how easy it is to manipulate people.

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    2 months ago

    Every conference/tech showcase is carefully staged to maximize investments.

    Well, often times not Tesla.

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      This is still so weird to me. Couldn’t they even lie right? Use a plastic window just for that car. Apparently it doesn’t matter to tesla customers that the end product is shit.

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    You remember the first time Musk talked about robotaxis? He never delivered. This robotaxi is another vaporware

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      Yeah, Tesla made this claim about the model X being full self driving in 5 years and being able to become an autonomous taxi while you weren’t using it. Still waiting on that one…

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    i’m expecting the first million optimus robots will be remote controlled by armies of ‘trainers’ and elon will claim the ai will use the footage to train itself to do everything later, but we need a trillion+ dollars of compute to achieve that, but the software and hardware required are simply not possible at any budget anytime soon. maybe its good enough to have mass remote slavery for some.

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      2 months ago

      I feel that almost certainly that is where Musk got the idea from, it worked for them, etc!

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    He also said that it would result in an “age of abundance” where the cost of everything would drop dramatically.

    This never, never, ever happens when they say it will happen. It’s always the opposite. Prices go up, jobs disappear, new subscriptions appear, etc.

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    Question - assuming they are human controlled, how do these compare with bots created by competitors like Boston Dynamics?

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      They don’t. They are not competitors. This is not a product that exists as a real purchasable item. Those little robot dog toys are closer to BD than what Elon has done here.

  • Mandy@sh.itjust.works
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    arent tech events always a propaganda show of “what we want it to be” and not what it actually is?

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    I mean if drone pilots are cucking people and blowing them instead of blowing them up, I’ll take that as progress at this point