I work in a warehouse loading trucks. Any package that is hazardous material, oddly shaped, oversized, or over 70 lbs is not allowed on the conveyor belt system and is required to be put on a cart. These carts, which handle like a shopping cart that weighs 500 lbs, are carried by automated trolleys that look like this.
Normally these work fine. However, occasionally the "gps" navigation or the radar collision system malfunction and the unit ends up not moving because it doesn't know where it is, or it thinks that the support column that has been there for 10 years is a person and it triggers the emergency stop.
When this happens, we have to get onto it and manually drive it to the next checkpoint, or if the malfunction is really bad, get the maintenance guys to tow it away. Regardless, these automated trains keep coming, and when one breaks down it causes a backup, and if it breaks down in the wrong place it ends up causing gridlock for both the trains and the package trucks.
Computers are not smart. They are fast at doing things, but they are not intelligent. It never ceases to make me roll my eyes at normies who think that "A.I." is actually intelligent when it is essentially a talking box blindly throwing salami at the wall hoping it hits the right target.
Our AGV robots in the warehouse already fuck up multiple times per shift, in a building with pre planned routes and guidance markers. There is no way that shit is replacing a human being in a semi truck who can react to changing conditions on the fly.
I work in a warehouse loading trucks. Any package that is hazardous material, oddly shaped, oversized, or over 70 lbs is not allowed on the conveyor belt system and is required to be put on a cart. These carts, which handle like a shopping cart that weighs 500 lbs, are carried by automated trolleys that look like this.
Normally these work fine. However, occasionally the "gps" navigation or the radar collision system malfunction and the unit ends up not moving because it doesn't know where it is, or it thinks that the support column that has been there for 10 years is a person and it triggers the emergency stop.
When this happens, we have to get onto it and manually drive it to the next checkpoint, or if the malfunction is really bad, get the maintenance guys to tow it away. Regardless, these automated trains keep coming, and when one breaks down it causes a backup, and if it breaks down in the wrong place it ends up causing gridlock for both the trains and the package trucks.
Computers are not smart. They are fast at doing things, but they are not intelligent. It never ceases to make me roll my eyes at normies who think that "A.I." is actually intelligent when it is essentially a talking box blindly throwing salami at the wall hoping it hits the right target.
Our AGV robots in the warehouse already fuck up multiple times per shift, in a building with pre planned routes and guidance markers. There is no way that shit is replacing a human being in a semi truck who can react to changing conditions on the fly.