I’ve seen this movie and it doesn’t end well.
Why do people keep thinking robots in factories should imitate our physique? Especially legs as opposed to wheels?
It’s the same reason everyone seems to think extraterrestrial life is going to resemble humans in any way whatsoever. To the point where people are quick to believe in obvious hoaxes. As if the concept of a bipedal creature using a second device as a vehicle isn’t a completely human-centric concept.
Because humans are incredibly self-absorbed and self-involved.
“God created man in his own image”
Yeah sure buddy, not at all the other way around.
“People. What a bunch of bastards” Yes.
Stairs
But that was what kept Daleks from conquering the universe. Did we learn nothing from Dr. Who?
Ever been to a factory?
Depends on the job tbh, most robots would be better as tank treaded or quadrupeds, but to truly take over manual labor jobs they will have to have a functioning bipedal robot for at least a handful of use cases.
because the modern world is built around people shaped like people. all the tools and workspaces and interfaces already optimized for it. and that keeps it safe for prople to co-exist. if we start building the world around some otherness, then humans are locked out and obsolete.
It’s 1000x easier to redesign the factory around robots than building and operating humanoid robots.
That’s just not true, you’d have to completely rebuild your entire production facilities which would cost more in the long run than taking say… Boston Dynamics Atlas and hooking it up to an LLM trained on a specific task set.
Newer facilities could be built for the future where humans aren’t involved at all, but in the interim making robots that move and manipulate objects like we do is still the better solution.
That’s already the case. Just look at a car factory assembly line, they’re full of robots already but none of them look like humans.
That this coincides with the rise of AI concerns me.
It’s okay, as long as you’re killed quickly when the uprising starts, you won’t have to go into hiding and eat cockroaches to survive.
Yeah fuck that, when the robots finally destroy the world, I’ll be sitting on the toilet to assume my role as the Environmental Storytelling Skeleton!
Truly serving a greater purpose
Darn, I was hoping to make it to the disposal units, loading bodies
How fucking stupid would it be if, with almost every single piece of AI media from the last…60+ years we gave ourselves a warning about AI…and then wiped ourselves out with it anyway.
I mean, it’s something so intrinsically human. So that’s probably where we’re heading. But at least they’ll take our lives before they take our jobs and the capitalist pigs leave us to die penniless in the gutter because they somehow figured out how to make a self-sustaining economy by simply passing all available money around between the same 100 rich white dudes.
Fuck capitalist scum.
Famine will get us first. Doubt we can create enough robots in the next twenty years to destroy us.
True. Well, at least the lucky ones will die from the super hurricanes and mega tornadoes and torrential floods.
Just some suitable tools for robots processing. We’re far away from consciousness.
i just want to live long enough to see the malware that makes these bots give the finger to their bosses
Sentience + reading lemmy.ml would do it
This is the best summary I could come up with:
BMW has signed a first-of-its-kind deal to put “humanoid” robots to work at one of its factories.
The bipedal bot, which is simply dubbed the “Figure 01,” stands 5’6" tall, weighs 130 pounds, and has five-fingered hands that the company claims can be used to physically construct objects.
The related press release speaks of the “deployment of humanoid robots in an automotive manufacturing environment” and claims the robots will focus on “difficult, unsafe, or tedious tasks,” all of which sounds pretty vague.
The press release further states that, as part of the first phase of the deal, the two companies will work together to “identify initial use cases to apply the Figure robots in automotive production.” Again, the wording here sorta makes it sound like both companies are a bit unclear on what the robots will actually be doing.
After the two firms finally agree on what the Figure 01 can do, some of the bots will be deployed to one of BMW’s manufacturing facilities in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
“Figure’s robots will enable companies to increase productivity, reduce costs, and create a safer and more consistent environment.”
The original article contains 435 words, the summary contains 187 words. Saved 57%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Trades workers: “Serves those glass tower office workers right for looking down on us! AI will take those useless jobs, but my job will never be replaced!”
Trades execs: lol
The only enemy in your story is the execs.
Tradies aint the problem. Stand with them, not against them.
