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The Optimus robots at Tesla’s Cybercab event were humans in disguise (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 months ago by just_another_person@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.ml
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[–] shapesandstuff@feddit.org 48 points 2 months ago (3 children)

People are already jumping to defend it as "a preview on where technology is headed".

How would they know? Musk and his minions keep lying about their technology.

[–] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

Musk is a pathological liar

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

That's like if i made a presentation and showed back to the future 2 and said: well, that's how our hoverboards will look and function

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 8 points 2 months ago

Only a couple years away man! Self driving cars, living on Mars, so close!

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 30 points 2 months ago

How is this any different than fraudster Trevor Milton of Nikola showing footage of Nikola vehicles using gravity to go downhill, but pretending that they were a functioning concept and running on their own power?

[–] fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 months ago

All that money and engineering to have a human still needed to do the job of a human lol.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The fact that this obvious liar and fraudster is the worlds richest human has just broken my brain. My god humans are stupid.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, that's how you get there. Lying and harming people.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 1 points 2 months ago

oh, I get it. the target of my ire isn't just elmo, it's the fact that so many smoothbrains can't see the naked truth.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Not sure why Elon didn't just call them 'Drones' instead of 'Robots' - since it's a given that drones are human controlled with varying levels of process automation now.

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The video on the article is even funnier. They didn’t even mask the person’s voice, so it just sounds like a dude talking through a speaker. And he fumbled pronouncing “autonomous”.

[–] Khrux@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 months ago

To be fair, modern AI voices sound pretty real. Making it artificial would have been a tell in it's own right.

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Didn't the Chinese already did this a few months back? XD

[–] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

It bugs me just saying "the Chinese" did it. It was the Chinese company Ex-Robot.

[–] Tamo240@programming.dev 7 points 2 months ago

They were humans pretending to be robots, these are actually robots that are being remotely controlled, rather than being fully autonomous.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

Lonnie is a liar. TLDR.