Reminds me of the scene from Robocop 2 when they are introducing new robocop models and one literally rips his helmet off and his skull just screams. As a kid I found it both funny and scary at the same time.
This is why I know Elon won’t get that ridiculous bonus. He has to sell a million of these robots.
What is even the point of these robots? Like, will he provide the operators as well? Do I have to employ someone to work my robot? Am I supposed to use a robot as a proxy? I don’t get what’s being sold.
The idea is that a robot + guy in india to run it is cheaper than hiring and American
What’s being sold is the illusion that the robots are completely autonomous based on AI or something.
Buy it now, get the full AI self-walking update in
twothreesevenfifteensome years.It worked for Tesla cars, so why should the same strategy not work on the same idiots with robots?
The robots are supposed to be autonomous, not driven by an operator, but no one can make robots except Boston Dynamics and even they have struggled.
Even if they aren’t autonomous you could argue that the dexterity of these bots could be very useful for a human operator to work in a hazardous environment where the human being present directly is harmful.
Now selling them as fully autonomous while pulling off an Amazon checkout is total bullshit.
There’s a singular perfectly awesome use case for a robot you can drive as your proxy. Here it is:
Of course, the chances on Elmo being able to deliver anything even approaching this minimum level of usefulness are well into the negatives.
Given that his cars break from rain, and his rockets always explode, I wouldn’t put much stock in these, no.
Oh god, you’re right. One million robots in ten years. That’s impossible and hilarious.
On the other hand it’s good for the economy. They will have to employ one million people working full time to control them. Musk is such a good socialist.
Why it look like whoever was controlling it just took their headset off? User takes viser off robot falls from lack of user controls? Tell me this was not actually just another mechanical turk.
It was AI – Actually Indians
Anonymous Indians since we’ve never met them
i read that omg seems its always just a room full of exploited humans.
Pretty sure in that case, the Indians were the ones doing the exploiting.
Well at least it’s not Turk?
Look, the mechanical Turk was a good chess player at least… and his operator had to literally hide beneath the table…
Thr question is can that thing jack me off and can it look much less creepy?
Did you see the water spray out the bottle at the end? You’re losing it if it grabs anything
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The Indian operator just finished his shift
He meant AI as in Affordable Indians
https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/the-company-whose--ai--was-actually-700-humans-in-india.html
I was gonna post a joke but nothing will top this lol
My optimist: surely Musk will not be able to get away with being caught in this obvious lie.
My realist: he’s gonna get away with it again.
The optimistic take is that no one is that stupid.
The realistic take is that musk fanboys will claim that the robot is so advanced, that it thinks it’s alive and mimics someone taking his headset off, because it has seen it.
I’m sure we’ll see, “the AI was trained on human operator recordings - which unfortunately included headset removal actions, Tesla is now working to filter that from the model”.
The operator typically goes straight to sleep after removing his helmet as it’s a very taxing job. Nothing unusual.
They’re actually shot in the head when their shift is over and they remove the headset - to prevent leaks of Optimus being a charade.
Sadly it’s not even limited to fanboys, just the completely oblivious. I was kinda shocked recently to explain to a work friend how idiotic musk is with receipts. He was perplexed, “… But he’s that smart tech billionaire, right?” Just taking the world at face value.
Just taking the world at face value.
I remember coming into my actualization in my late 20s and making the horrific realization that the vast majority of people never go through that.
If we wanted to to do that we’d say it wasn’t taking headphones off, it was throwing up its arms in panic that it was having a stroke. See the immediate collapse
Remember those Tesla solar roof tiles? Fake. Made by a prop company in LA.
Tesla solar still exists, but they just install typical panels, because PUTTING SOLAR TILES IN THE SHADY ROOF SIDE WAS STUPID.I’ve seen a local installation of the tiles. I asked the contractor all about them as they went in. They are real.
While I really don’t want to defend that flop, they didn’t. Their goal was to create identical tiles so the roof looked consistent but only some would be the more expensive solar tiles
Yeah but they delivered fuck all.
I know theyre banned in my town, fire marshal and electrical inspector said fuck that.
Theres actually a guy who has them on his roof. Hes not allowed to turn the system on, even islanded to make power, and he eats a decent yearly fine just for having them on his roof, which is deemed a hazard by the fire marshal, should he have a fire.
Are you sure? I remember seeing other legitimate roofing companies selling solar roof tiles too. I think I even remember watching an installation video. They weren’t rigid tiles, they were flexible and nailed down similarly to shingles.
What is this from?
It’s a scene from 1990’s RoboCop 2.
Oh sh— I gotta check that out.
What I thought of immediately.
Excellent.
I came here expecting to post it myself, delighted to not have to put in the effort.
Kind of what I hoped happened, without the corpse. Could have been cool to see it rip its head off.
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Be funnier if the robot ripped its own head off.
I kinda clicked into here expecting that outcome
Robocop 2 is a hell of a movie.
Precisely the scene I thought of too.
He doesn’t shoot them off, he tears them off.
2025 version of the mechanical turk
Indeed, a case for Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, a service that is shamelessly and deliberately named after its historical model. The principle has not changed after all this time: poorly paid people do the work to make it look as if machines could perform the task - as if it were an unprecedented technological breakthrough, as if it were some kind of magic.
It is a very popular thing among all the companies that claim that “artificial intelligence” was the future.
Edit: However, this does not appear to be a demonstration of autonomous technology.
Edit edit: Apparently, this was actually intended as a demonstration of autonomous technology - any source other than Reddit would be more credible.
They’ve already demonstrated time and again that these robots only exist so the rich can have slaves without actually having to see or interact with the slaves. They even had their robot strength nerfed so that there could be no uprising.
I thought Mturk was primarily used for labeling data for ML models, i.e., “here’s data. Look at it and give it a label according to our specifications”. Do they have a component of Mturk for piloting devices?
It existed before that use case was prominent. Basically it was for whatever trivial for people but hard for machines task you could have people do over the Internet.
I can’t answer that competently, but I can well imagine it, because there is demand for it.
Mecha Türk intensifies
Elon Musk once again proving that he’s more of a Justin Hammer than a Tony Stark (who was already a problematic figure, but at least had talent and SOME sense of right and wrong)
Elon Musk was in Iron Man 2 because he was the closest thing to Tony Stark. And then Lex Luthor looked and sounded like Elon thinks he does, because he’s the closest thing to Lex Luthor.
Problematic? He was a Genius, Billionaire, Playboy, Philanthropist and the Hero that saved the world!
Everything about Elon Musk is a scam.
Upside: Service workers can now work from home
Reality: Prisoners can and will be required to work as service workers from their prison cells.
I, for one, can’t wait for the inevitable robot murder committed vicariously via a murderer controlling a robot from their cell.
It’s called capitalist innovation, sweaty
There is no need for name calling. It’s a glandular problem you monster.
With 24h surveillance prisons are not needed, just the mandatory work.
Oh no. There could be a whole revolution in sentencing people to house arrest work programs. Just think of the cost savings of making inmates pay for their own housing, and the surveillance potential to keep the neighbors “safe.”
ah god damnit that’s fucking bleak and i know you’re right…
Well shit….
If I send in my robot does that mean I don’t need to commute?
I want to see footage of the backroom where the controllers are located so badly. Imagine how silly it must look, just a room full of people wearing VR headsets while trying to make their movements look as robotic as possible.
Also notice how it crushes the water bottle? Not safe to be around.
First thing I noticed. This is like standing next to a manufacturing robot, except without the black and yellow safety square that tells you how far its reach is.
