How the f**k do we have functional AI that speaks like a human and solves general problems on the level of a university student, but somehow household chores are still done with tech that was invented 50-100 years ago?! Why isn’t there just a hole in my kitchen counter where I can dump dirty dinnerware, pots, pans; the machine sorts it out, washes it, and returns it to the cupboard? Why doesn’t my washing machine sort by color, wash, dry, fold, and stack my clothes? Why do I still have to clean surfaces in my house by manually rubbing a wet sponge at them for hours?
I’ll tell you what I think: inequality. Women did house chores, men invented shit that was fun and useful to them. Maybe as the world moves, hopefully, toward more equality we will find that people who shares their time between chores and inventing stuff will start to actually tackle the problem of simplifying boring chores.
I mean washing machines and dishwashers are already a very huge simplification on those tasks.
The problem with the automatically putting away and folding is that those are much harder problems or rather very expensive compared to someone just doing it.
Because AI and robotics are completely different thing. AI is software, so it can just use the well developed computer hardware we have, has no intrinsic material cost, can be taught by YouTube videos and be made by anyone with some technical knowledge and a computer.
Whereas moving objects around requires robotics which, while mu h more accessible than it used to be, still requires specific parts, which can cost quite a lot and denying on the project night have to be custom made, and you need an actual lab/workshop to do anything remotely high end or reliable. And then when you have a design for your dish washing robot you jave to pay the material costs and labour for each one you want to make, whereas an AI you can send the binaries of the bot around for free and run it on existing hardware people have.
I mean… Have you seen the growth of consumer tools, compared to the growth of consumer appliances? I really think it is sexist. Modern appliances treat the end user like a bimbo. Older appliances allowed a lot of room for negotiation. Now I ask, Ryobi, Dewalt, Stanley - where is your answer? Where is the bimbofication of men?
Wait but… I do too. And yet appliances do have worse features and do have more planned obsolescence thrown in for good measure. Buying with your wallet gets harder the more meaningful it is to the capitalist.
How the f**k do we have functional AI that speaks like a human and solves general problems on the level of a university student, but somehow household chores are still done with tech that was invented 50-100 years ago?! Why isn’t there just a hole in my kitchen counter where I can dump dirty dinnerware, pots, pans; the machine sorts it out, washes it, and returns it to the cupboard? Why doesn’t my washing machine sort by color, wash, dry, fold, and stack my clothes? Why do I still have to clean surfaces in my house by manually rubbing a wet sponge at them for hours?
I’ll tell you what I think: inequality. Women did house chores, men invented shit that was fun and useful to them. Maybe as the world moves, hopefully, toward more equality we will find that people who shares their time between chores and inventing stuff will start to actually tackle the problem of simplifying boring chores.
I mean washing machines and dishwashers are already a very huge simplification on those tasks.
The problem with the automatically putting away and folding is that those are much harder problems or rather very expensive compared to someone just doing it.
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I go downstairs in my house, take the old off and throw it into the washing machine right away and grab fresh crap from the dryer.
My dresser has been empty for close to a year now and just tasked up space. Laundry baskets are also useless.
Granted this won’t work for multiple people in a house or those with crotch goblins but yeah…
Laundry is no issue now. Lol
crotch goblins? come the fuck on, they are kids man, don’t be a cunt to them.
Oh hey its the first time I’ve recognised a lemmy poster in the wild!
Thanks for single handedly making reddevils worth visiting mate :) x
well I just don’t have a life and I want lemmy to thrive so I share the news.
I’m not. I’m being a cunt online where they should be monitored but aren’t, making them crotch goblins.
Because AI and robotics are completely different thing. AI is software, so it can just use the well developed computer hardware we have, has no intrinsic material cost, can be taught by YouTube videos and be made by anyone with some technical knowledge and a computer.
Whereas moving objects around requires robotics which, while mu h more accessible than it used to be, still requires specific parts, which can cost quite a lot and denying on the project night have to be custom made, and you need an actual lab/workshop to do anything remotely high end or reliable. And then when you have a design for your dish washing robot you jave to pay the material costs and labour for each one you want to make, whereas an AI you can send the binaries of the bot around for free and run it on existing hardware people have.
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Buddy. The appliances appeal to the woman’s husband.
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I mean… Have you seen the growth of consumer tools, compared to the growth of consumer appliances? I really think it is sexist. Modern appliances treat the end user like a bimbo. Older appliances allowed a lot of room for negotiation. Now I ask, Ryobi, Dewalt, Stanley - where is your answer? Where is the bimbofication of men?
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Oh yeah its my fault for buying what’s on offer, not capital’s fault for making decisions for consumers. Vote with your wallet, they said.
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Wait but… I do too. And yet appliances do have worse features and do have more planned obsolescence thrown in for good measure. Buying with your wallet gets harder the more meaningful it is to the capitalist.