• Deez@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

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

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      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.

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        1 month 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.

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          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…

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        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?