Food Delivery Robots vs Homeless in LA: Guess Who Wins?
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This only works in high trust societies, like Japan and formerly Canada if I remember the hitchhiking bot. In the state America is in now, well, this happens. So high border security if you want your robot maid waifus.
Huh thinking about it, maybe this is why the west get terminators, matrix and I robot in their media because they feel the AI will turn on them while Asia gets Housekeeper and Metropolis where it is our fault and robots only want to help us.
I'm a be real about niggers for a second. If they can't fuck it, or steal it and sell it for a profit, they're gonna bash it.
Western Canada is still high trust. Its just Vancouver that poisons the stability of western Canada. You're probably thinking eastern which is a shithole.
Well it's the closest to New York so that evildoers be a given
At least the western side has a state barrier between them and California.
Seattle is just about as dystopian as Los Angeles.
As someone who works an unskilled labor job in logistics, I fully expect the "AI" rollout for physical labor stuff to be disastrous. I've already seen their attempted replacement of front-end labor (i.e cashiers) be a horrible failure that customers hate, doesn't work properly, yet the corp still tries to force as a thing, because it's an industry mandate.
Ironically AI DOES replace a lot of makework white collar jobs fairly well. It wouldn't surprise me if it ends up displacing more professionals than blue collar workers--but since those professionals have all the pull with politicians and upper crust, they might end up banning it and saving their jobs, whereas coal miners were told to fuck themselves. We already see the beginnings of this with the political moves to "regulate" AI.
Looking far into the future, it actually seems more reasonable to me that we'd have AI overlords managing everything while human labor does everything cheaply, than the reverse. It turns out that the human capabilities when it comes to physical labor are hard to replicate, robots often fuck shit up and cause lots of damage. Imagine a robot trying to do fine detail work of organizing a shelf without knocking down $10,000 worth of merchandise.
The Matrix in reality probably wouldn't be humans hooked up as batteries; it'd be humans serving as slave labor. From an efficiency perspective, the least efficient part of society is the upper crust. The lower rung has already been mercilessly squeezed to be as efficient as possible, with the profits from that efficiency going to the lazy upper rungs of society. If you were an AI looking at the whole of society, what you'd be looking to "trim" as inefficient would be the office workers, upper management, politicians, etc.
There is a nexus of political power within white collar jobs but if we look at the last global recession, they were hemorrhaging white collar workers like no tomorrow. This was also due to the introduction of better office software.
If AI is going to do damage in this field, then it's going to do maximum damage.
They have walking robots, but those are expensive and need to be connected to a cable as far as I've seen. I bet you fewer people would mess with em though if you gave em arms. I don't suppose they'd give them the ability to fight back, but if they did that springing up from laying down thing and ran off, I imagine people would leave them alone out of fear. It would still mess you up if it like landed on you.
Using a tether during testing is just good sense - even if you don't need it, you don't know you don't need it until you've done the test.
Seems like to go a useful delivery distance, they'd need huge batteries, but IDK.
Gonk!
angry beeping
R2D2 swore like a Sailor. They had to bleep out everything it said.
This is why I don't believe in the faggy UBI future where robots/AI will take over all the work, because the gibsmedats will use their plentiful free time to rob the robots. At least humans have a chance of shooting back.
they'll start electrifying the robots
Watch as they return to their ancestral roots and start chucking spears at the food robots like it's a fucking zebra.
If you can't use lethal force to defend your property, is it really your property?
At least they arent using them as mobile toilets. Yet.
IT'S OK TO HIRE HUMANS
We don't need anymore Indians.
He said humans
Rather more Indians than nigs ruining places
Taser probes would go a long way towards training the local wildlife to avoid the rolling box.
The elderly asian crack 'ho riding it like horse was hilarious.
Been playing Death Stranding, so I can't help but feel kinda bad for the poor delivery bots. They don't deserve that kind of abuse.
yeah that stuff only works if it has a self destruction ability or some other means to defend itself.
I'm going to guess this will never be implemented in Philly.