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The $500,000 robot servant Elon Musk claims will sell 10 billion units by 2040 can barely walk and struggles with questions like 'where can I get a coke?' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] SnuggleButt@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I know someone who does robotics at Amazon, and they tell me their in-house robots are really fucking stupid. They have folders and folders of images where they’ve made ridiculous mistakes that circulate around teams. A lot of them need very clear instructions constantly fed to them through visibly clear floor directions/floor lines/floor QR codes. And these deal with general transportation of neatly shaped objects with the occasional claw machine thrown in. To even conceive that we’re going to get fine tuned robots paired with hallucinating LLMs is both hilarious and terrifying because if they ever do get the fine tuning, you’re going to get I robots who are sprinting home not for an inhaler but for a gun. But hey let’s look forward to them funding mental health services for AI before they do for humans. In a way that’s already the case today I guess