The robots were just a little too slick.
  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1004·
    1 month ago

    Title reads like tall skinny removed were wearing robot costumes. What they meant to say is that the robots weren’t autonomous.

  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    84·
    1 month ago

    But it was mostly just a show.

    Attendee Robert Scoble posted that he’d learned humans were “remote assisting” the robots

    Serious question: Wasn’t it obvious?

    • ladicius@lemmy.worldEnglish
      277·
      1 month ago

      There was some hate babbling when that robot taxi company in SanFran published that their autonomous cars were assisted by remote drivers who took over when situations were too complex for the robots.

      I think remote support and steering will be the most reliable and practical way those tasks will be handled for the foreseeable future. How much assistance the cars will need may diminish but I don’t think they will ever be able to work without any human assistance.

      • kameecoding@lemmy.worldEnglish
        432·
        1 month ago

        Sure they will, just put then on rails, make them bigger and available to the public, call it Public AI transport or something

        • Jrockwar@feddit.ukEnglish
          2·
          1 month ago

          Sort of. It just depends on how much the person needs to control the vehicle.

          The easiest example I can think of: Imagine lorries traveling along a motorway, and they can do that autonomously because it’s “easy”, and when they get into a city a remote operator needs to drive them manually into the depot.

          Each operator could easily drive 4 or 5 lorries, if only one of those is entering a city at a time. Instead of needing a driver per truck, you only need drivers for the maximum number of trucks that might be entering cities at the same time. For a fleet of 30, that could be 5 drivers.

          For things like mining, where safety regulations mean that you want to avoid having people in the mine as much as possible, even having one driver for every haul truck (so yeah, regular driving with extra steps) could be economically profitable if it means you can reduce some other, potentially expensive safety controls.

          • umbrella@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            1 month ago

            this would work mostly in the us where the majority of the time you are in wide highways. aside from that, i see how it can be useful.

    • vxx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      1 month ago

      Yes

      “Fraud” is any activity that relies on deception in order to achieve a gain. Fraud becomes a crime when it is a “knowing misrepresentation of the truth or concealment of a material fact to induce another to act to his or her detriment” (Black’s Law Dictionary). In other words, if you lie in order to deprive a person or organization of their money or property, you’re committing fraud.

    • underisk@lemmy.mlEnglish
      18·
      1 month ago

      People will still fall for it by treating it like a demonstration of what Elon wants to make, and just an early prototype. The abilities these “robots” displayed are on par with technology that has been available for over 20 years. They don’t realize the parts missing, filled in by human intervention, are the most difficult parts to create and literally cannot be done without a major, generational breakthrough in AI.

  • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    30 days ago

    At Elon’s Tesla robots are secretly humans, and at Elon’s Twitter human users are secretly bots.