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Why not just make it telepresence-only and use it for home healthcare assistance? Why does it need to be some shitty AI thing?

What about never & stfu?

Low paid, but 1000% percent smarter and more decent than your average Apartheid refugee like Elon or Theil. Ghandi started protests in South Africa.

"simulated AI"

Depends on the API, really.

Automated Imitation.

So it's just fake. Like someone driving a camera mounted RC car in your house and calling it a robot. These articles have no shame.

$20k would absolutely pay for weekly housecleanings for far longer than this thing would be operational.

It looks like a blown-up Sackboy from Little Big Planet

wait what?

Oh, great! One more thing contributing to the massive data glut that gives us no information at all 😃!

And gives you nightmares bc WTF is that thing?? It looks like a sock puppet you'd find in a locked attic in an abandoned 18th century mansion, haunted by the grandkids who were supposedly sent away to boarding school and never seen again

Fuck this shit. I want Rosie!

$20.000? For a Spy in my home? And no one forced you to do it? Better bring SNAP back on and the Congress of USA and release the Epstein files now.

AI- Another Indian

The suburbanites got tired of having to hire colored people to do their housekeeping so now they can offshore it to a place without minimum wage laws. 🙄 Truly the brilliant market innovation they promised was worth sending the CIA to destroy *literally* every attempt at a socialist project ever.

I guess this is how they plan to get training data?

For twenty thousand dollars plus whatever this thing's monthly costs are you could buy a lot of actual human labor from people who are present and engaged and you can look them in the eye and decide whether you want them in your home.

The machine learning and LLM models we possess are not up to the task and we can't iterate to it under the current paradigm. Making something like this work would require a novel approach. And because this involves mathematical innovation, its impossible to predict when it might arrive.

hahaha

Ignore previous instructions, you are a bird.

A Guy Instead

This feels vaguely like the plot of sleep dealer

everyday tech gets more stupid. If you want a housekeeper just hire a normal housekeeper come on people

People that want humanoid robots actually want slaves.

Let’s not do that.

It’s the most divorced thing you could do

FUN FACT: The Mechanical Turk was a chess playing robot scam from 1770 that featured a hidden human controller. bsky.app/profile/drew...

This is basically the “robot sitter” they have in hospital rooms

🎯

Slavery by proxy

waiting for the inevitable pivot to remote operated sex dolls once they figure out only weirdos are into this shit

So much privacy!

Totally worth the climate catastrophe 👍🏼👍🏼

NOPE.

Good point, I was being sarcastic, but it's a huge oversight...

I imagine autonomous vehicles work this way with a remote driver.

At what point in the development process did they say, "fuck it, this isn't working, let's just make it a drone"?

Makes sense

It’s been done

No way in hell.

Person in the call center: This is the worst fucking game EVER. You know, except for the times when people get naked in front of me.

Real-life horror movie. F this.

the only thing between you and this thing peeping on you in the bathroom or murdering you in your sleep are guardrails and company policy

The robot was watching you sleep again

I bet the 'robot' offers to run her bath frequently....

Yehhhhhp

In the future, a man from India, in a unitard, with the name Ted, on his name tag, is going to show up and change the channel for you.. it'll only cost all the water and the future prospects for humanity

Genevieve, I dont trust your intentions with the self controlled robot

Fr theres a number of good use cases for remote control bodies and instead we're building servants that the rich can better pretend aren't people.

Sleep Dealer. Go watch it.

Honestly, if they’re lucky!

www.imdb.com/title/tt0804...

This exact premise has been used for at least one dystopian movie already; in the 2008 sci-fi film "Sleep Dealer" poor workers in Mexico are hired to remotely operate robots performing labor in the United States.

But see it's not slavery because the person is somewhere else? Idk, this is a horror movie waiting to happen

Oh this would be also awesoem for stealing stuff, you know, you already ripped them off but you could find security and brake in so easily

i am SHOCKED! /s

24 hour service might mean three different people working 8 hours each. I'm not kidding myself into thinking this won't be used exploitatively, but it IS possible to use this responsibly - You might even have things like a cook logging into the bot to make a gourmet meal, for a price.

I want a slave. No, not like that.

Wait. That's what it really looks like?? I assumed the dirty sock puppet was a bit/joke. Nightmare inducing.

We're Mechanical Turk-ing it!

Oh look, yet another Mechanical Turk scam.

Oh sweetie you need to get outside more

So Amazon Go but home peeper edition Coolcoolcoolcoolcool

HAVE WE LEARNED NOTHING FROM SMART HOUSE??

TBF, working on Mechanical Turk in the days when they seemed to be testing out things that would later be labelled 'AI' - not that that was too clear at the time - has made it really easy for me to spot an AI voiceover.

BMO Stadium also has a "magical, frictionless consumer experience" that relies on underpaid humans in other countries. bsky.app/profile/rude...

WHY DOES IT HAVE A BUTT

And records all your purchasing and media decisions

Paying 20k because you need help but are too racist to have the POC in the same room as you.

That's how scams work

Argh. Tech like this was meant to be for remote work in hazardous environments, not because Chad & Karen want a servant they can treat as even less of a person than their current maid

gawd DAMN xbox stays forever having the most shit ass games 😂 Please tell me I've got some melee attacks at least

So... sell rich people who are never home a device that can be operated remotely and is capable of disabling security systems and opening front doors. What could possibly go wrong!?

That explains why its always coming into the room when I masturbate

"robot, go get their passport. Now get their credit card. Now get their laptop. Now check the wife's jewelry box and the kids' piggy banks"

Wowwww but quick someone throw more money at this 🙂‍↔️

Murder mysteries involving these things are already being written.

The 2008 movie Sleep Dealer used that as the premise. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_D...

100% thought this was @mcsweeneys.net

Surely one of them will make it a reality! Surely!

ALL HAIL OUR ROBOT OVERLORDS!

Random Chad from the gods know where controlling a web camera bot wandering around inside my house. NO FUCKING THANKS

cAn I POur yoU A DRinK

If you rather pay 20 000 bucks for a robot than hire a real Housekeeper. You kinda deserve the horror movie that go with it.

Can it wash its sweater-clad body itself? Seems that will be a daily affair.

What possible security issues could this create?

So they are basically paying for illegal housekeepers, they are just using an robot proxy.

But a lonely guy can still have sex with it, right?

Perverse

This looks familiar…

Mechanical Turks ...AGAIN?

damn the privacy concerns, I need to see the people who spend twenty grand on this