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I mean, shoot me down here, but is it that bad of an idea? If you're going to have an assistant or a taxi driver, and you start off at the base position of "AI
by wokwokwok 2y ago
I mean, shoot me down here, but is it that bad of an idea?
If you're going to have an assistant or a taxi driver, and you start off at the base position of "AI is totally unreliable", then having a fully remote gig-worker remotely piloting your robot...
I mean, it doesn't seem like a massive stretch from what Uber does.
...and heck, having a 'remote robot body' is pretty cool tech.
I guess. As long as you don't use it to pretend its just AI for the meaningless purposes of generating hype about your AI that really isn't actually any good.
- FactKnower69 2y ago>but is it that bad of an idea? yes, operating any kind of heavy machinery over a shaky wireless WAN with hundreds of milliseconds of latency and multiple percentage packet loss is, in fact, a bad idea
- darth_avocado 2y ago> Is it that bad of an idea? Driving at 60mph with shaky internet connection? Absolutely. Piloting a robot to fold laundry? Maybe not. Allowing random people to pilot robots in your house with children around? Absolutely horrific.
- xyzzy123 2y agoIt seems like there's considerable demand for human labour "below the API" that you don't have to talk to. It's kind of sad but people seem to get comfortable with it very quickly.
- kortilla 2y ago> Allowing random people to pilot robots in your house with children around? Absolutely horrific. Your risk analysis on this is completely wrong. If there is some vetting here this is fine. No different than a babysitter or a handyman off the Internet
- defrost 2y agoYou're saying then that tools exist to scan and ping all babysiters and handymen across the globe, fingerprint them for version, lookup zero-days, apply them to matching staff, exploit that to monitor children remotely, and take control over home assistants function to shepard children out the door to a "party van" ? That's the ecosystem that surrounds most actual IoT devices - I can't see home robots being any different.
- nneonneo 2y agoThe Pied Piper, in robot form.
- jazzyjackson 2y agoWho gets a babysitter off the Internet?
- oblio 2y agoApparently at least everyone who keeps this website going, at least: https://www.babysits.org/ https://www.babysits.org/
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- darth_avocado 2y agoMy “vetted” Doordash/Ubereats drivers sometimes end up eating part of my meals.
- nnurmanov 2y agoThere are FPV drones, although I am not sure about their precision
- foobiekr 2y agoThe problem is it was presented in the most manipulative and deceptive way possible.