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We haven't even got started on the AI thing. This is a long term thing. There will be dips. There always is. But the future is robots and AI. May not be the future we want, but it's the future we're going to get.
Absolutely. I agree 100%.
 

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But the future is robots and AI. May not be the future we want, but it's the future we're going to get.
i can assure you it is absolutely NOT the blue zone future I want

but yeah... here we go!
 
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i can assure you it is absolutely NOT the blue zone future I want

but yeah... here we go!
yes. yes. YES!

@casa_mugrienta sorry I have to downvote you on the Leibowitz segment - he's the type of guy who doesn't get invited to barbecues. Edit: I know a guy who went to college with him and had him at his wedding. He looks 20 years younger than Leibowitz who looks 70-75 there.
 
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Just Walk Out merely presents the illusion of automation, with Amazon crowing about generative AI and the like. Here’s where the smoke and mirrors come in. While the stores have no actual cashiers, there are reportedly over 1,000 real people in India scanning the camera feeds to ensure accurate checkouts.
:poop::Good Morning, Sars

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:poop:: SAR, PLEASE STOP GRAZING. YOU MUST COMPLETE PURCHASE BY EXITING DA PREMISES BEFORE EATING DA FOOD

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:poop:: NO NO NO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
 

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I've always wondered if these chatbots were just some flow chart that routed you to India. Now we know.
I don't have a grill as I live in a bug-fed cuckbox, but if I knew about this months ago, there's basically no way I could resist going to Whole Foods wearing a shirt from a corpo slaughterhouse or the Pakistani cricket team and buying like 20 lbs of beef and stocking up on soap and deodorant and toilet paper, all the while putting items in my cart as if I was trying to disguise what I was doing.
 

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This guy is full of crap - AI is going to Change the World (TM), like blockchain. I denounce this sort of thing completely. Anyways, here it is.

 
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How long ago was it they released their first video? 10 years?

Doesn't seem like much progress.

I'm guessing the price of one of these starts in the 7 figures. The first use-case that comes to mind is wellness checks.
 

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This one starts at $74.5k
What do I use it for?

https://www.reddit.com/r/robotics/comments/2x3q58
Looks like the price of the humanoid ones is down by a factor of 2 to pi in 10 years.
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Of course, upgrades cost money.