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
“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.
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.
i don't really know the most efficient protocol, but my gut says to treat it like a cop car or even a cop: open it up with whatever is handy and take a dump inside it.
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
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.
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?
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.
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!