• Dolores [love/loves]
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        112 years ago

        the mechanical turk, despite being our rhetorical refrain for this, was waaaaay more mechanically impressive than the tech-company “smart” devices that function off oblique remote third world labor.

        you can set up a wifi-connected remote drone in an afternoon, the mechanical turk was a bespoke and sophisticated illusion, that relied on a talented and discreet staff

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    342 years ago

    “Machines and AI stay within their parameters. But there needs to be an extra level and layer of safety control when a human takes over,” Sottar said. “And why do you need extra training to know not to run into someone?”

    Computers do exactly what you tell them. They’ve become so complex, doubly so when dealing with black-box neural nets, LLMs, and “AI”, that there are few if any people on earth who really understand what we’re telling them anymore.

  • supafuzz [comrade/them]
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    302 years ago

    if there’s nobody in the same country who can catch an assault charge for this, the system should be illegal

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    212 years ago

    So…

    So how do…

    How do self defense concepts apply to autonomous robots?

    Idk how to even kill a burrito-delivery bot.

    • TheCaconym [any]
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      I don’t know about these but for that police robot in the US at least there’s already a guide.

      Mind you these delivery ones look like this, a good bonk on the top should do it.

      Can always grab one straight into a mobile Faraday cage and get disassembling at your leisure too I guess. They could even be repurposed.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        152 years ago

        Remember back when you could just pop open the covers on e-scooters, flash the firmware, and have your very own e-scooter?

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        True. Spot’s going to get up-armored pretty quickly, even if it’s just anti-tampering stuff instead of actually protecting against weapons.

        Also, the delivery robots should be required to be safety green or orange, and have hazard stripes, more reflectors, and probably some kind of readily acessible, labelled emergency kill button.

    • oregoncom [he/him]
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      112 years ago

      Lift it up somewhere high. They’re light enough that most non-disabled people could lift it up.

      • LeZero [he/him]
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        82 years ago

        Shotguns are pretty common, even in countries with strong gun control, and I’d wager a 12ga slug to the center of mass would have adverse effect on the bot

  • wahwahwah [none/use name]
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    192 years ago

    Those things shouldn’t be allowed to use public roads and sidewalks. I’m sick of tech bros using public infrastructure for free while pretending that their shitty inventions would ever be able to replace it.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    132 years ago

    In my mind’s eye I can imagine the IDF is testing it out. But they need it armored with machine guns so they can use it to “deliver humanitarian aid”.

  • @SteveTech@programming.dev
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    72 years ago

    Is anyone else concerned that the driver was ‘given additional training’ and not simply fired? Like surely don’t hit people comes under common sense, right?

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    42 years ago

    I’ve got family living in MK and they’ve never been a problem, they’re rather likeable to be honest. This seems like a pretty far outlier instance of a single operator being a dangerous dickbag and I suspect this person would also be a dangerous dickbag if they were delivering in person instead of via robots.

  • @ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml
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    12 years ago

    I like them because they are a convenient place to take a shit when on the go. It’s like a port a potty delivered straight to you. And the best part is, somebody else pays for it!