• @[email protected]
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    157 hours ago

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

    Well, often times not Tesla.

  • @Nuke_the_whales
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    149 hours ago

    Similar to the company who just dressed up models as robots for their presentation

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

  • Deez
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    9712 hours ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      6912 hours ago

      That’s basically what happens right now. Remember Amazon’s smart grocery store? It was just people in India watching cameras. Computer vision wasn’t capable of it.

      • @essteeyou
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        65 hours ago

        That’s not true at all. I personally know a person who worked on that technology.

        Human beings got involved only when necessary. Do you really think Amazon wants to pay humans to be cashiers?

        • @[email protected]
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          54 hours ago

          Do you really think Amazon wants to pay humans to be cashiers?

          No but if they spend a bunch of money and time designing it, spend a bunch of time and money retrofitting stores, and then a bunch of time and money marketing it and the technology doesn’t actually work when it’s ‘showtime,’ I can easily see a company with deep pockets like Amazon faking it all by hiring dirt cheap labor to make it seem like it works rather than the alternative.

          • @essteeyou
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            But the technology does actually work.

            You don’t come up with an idea, announce it to the world, and then start figuring out how to implement it.

      • @orl0pl
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        219 hours ago

        AI (Anonymous Indians)

        • @vzq
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          68 hours ago

          It sounds like the best way to bootstrap a machine learning system. You generate the data the system will be seeing in production along with the proper labels. Then in a later stage you can start doing reinforcement learning.

          The problem is the lying about it.

      • Deez
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        3712 hours ago

        Makes me wonder how much of Tesla’s “Full Self Driving” is just some dude playing GTA VR with you in the passenger seat.

          • @[email protected]
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            97 hours ago

            Have you seen humans drive? Now imagine them driving with significant visual and steering input latency, distorted wide angle cameras, and the lack of steering and acceleration feedback. Unless they are used to sim racing, I bet most people would drive worse than Tesla’s FSD if done remotely.

        • @indomara
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          311 hours ago

          Well, I think the self driving taxis across the us apparently need human interaction every 6 minutes on average… So are they self driving? I don’t know.

          We can’t use our phones and drive, but someone can have a screen and drive 6 cars at the same time…

  • @filister
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    2411 hours ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      67 hours ago

      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…

  • @[email protected]
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    3411 hours 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    4512 hours ago

    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.

  • @Num10ck
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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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    39 hours ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      127 hours ago

      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.

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

    • @skyspydude1
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      See: the cyborg soldier subplot of Metal Gear Rising: Revengence

    • @[email protected]
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      411 hours ago

      The real reason for the brain implant chips company… brains in jars controlling robots.

  • @itsathursday
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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

    • @Dasus
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      He [Elmo] referred to these as “your own personal R2D2 C3-PO,” and that in the long term, these robots would cost less than a car – specifically, ~$20k-$30k. A video also described them as an “autonomous assistant, humanoid friend” which could be used for basically any task you can think of.

      Perhaps don’t market things as something they’re not?

      • @quafeinum
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        58 hours ago

        Imagine paying 30k$ so that some guy in India gives you regular handjobs 🤦

        Now imagine that’s your job 🤦

      • @[email protected]
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        They’re not marketing them as something they’re not. They’re marketing them as something they will be

        I mean that’s probably false also, but my point stands.

        It’s incredibly misleading to just omit the fact that they’re remote controlled but misleading is very on-brand for Tesla.

        • @pivot_root
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          They’re marketing them as something they will be

          That is false advertising—which is illegal.

        • @Dasus
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          You’re pretending as if he’s just honest and this is just the most reasonable ways of doing things.

          You’re completely ignoring the intentional misrepresentation of the capabilities of the technology. The main point of the robots is to be autonomous, which they’re not.

          It’s like if I were making some waterproof product and then made a huge presentation in which I have to avoiding getting any water on the product, while pretending they’re immersed in water.

        • @SlopppyEngineer
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          In this instance he is marketing what the final product is meant to do

          He’s been doing that with full self driving for the last decade and the event showed it might be a decade more. It doesn’t give much confidence.

        • bufalo1973
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          2415 hours ago

          Is Tesla selling their fully autonomous driving cars yet?

          A promise from Melon means nothing.