Amazon Picking Challenge
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Amazon Picking Challenge
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#2It is kind of sad to see the animated gif at the bottom of the page. Robots are coming for his job.
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#3It is kind of sad to see the animated gif at the bottom of the page. Robots are coming for his job. http://amazonpickingchallenge.org/kivapick2.gif
It's sad that any of us has to have jobs. Can't wait for the day all of the humans are served by Robots (Yes.. reading too many Asimov novels of late :) )
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#4There appears to be a stray object replacement character (U+FFFC) in the title (right after the 'n' in Amazon). Perhaps someone can edit it out?
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#5Something that seems really odd is they are working off the false assumption that current picking bins are suitable for the job. It seems every team was effectively competing against the bins, not devising an efficient way to put a subset of objects in storage into a container.
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#6It is kind of sad to see the animated gif at the bottom of the page. Robots are coming for his job. http://amazonpickingchallenge.org/kivapick2.gif
"The chief aim of their constitution and government is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time and energy from the service of the body, and devote themselves to the freedom and culture of the mind. For that, they think, is the real happiness of life."
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#7It is kind of sad to see the animated gif at the bottom of the page. Robots are coming for his job. http://amazonpickingchallenge.org/kivapick2.gif
It's sad that any of us has to have jobs. Can't wait for the day all of the humans are served by Robots (Yes.. reading too many Asimov novels of late :) )
The economic and societal forces that require having a job will not, on their own, magically change over upon the arrival of better robots. Without those changes, all you've done is taken away somebody's source of income.
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#8First prize is $25,000 USD. Doesn't seem worth it given that it appears one must upload their code, eg: https://github.com/amazon-picking-challenge
In comparison, Netflix gave away $1,000,000 for a better recommendation algorithm.
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#9It is kind of sad to see the animated gif at the bottom of the page. Robots are coming for his job. http://amazonpickingchallenge.org/kivapick2.gif
I was about to write the same thing. He's the last guy at the factory. Surrounded by other robots impatiently waiting on this slow human.
I used to think Amazon was great when they sold books. Now I'm not so sure.
but I suppose it's too late. Once humans are removed, they can drop prices lower than anyone with humans could possibly provide. yikes.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's sad that any of us has to have jobs. Can't wait for the day all of the humans are served by Robots (Yes.. reading too many Asimov novels of late :) )
The economic and societal forces that require having a job will not, on their own, magically change over upon the arrival of better robots. Without those changes, all you've done is taken away somebody's source of income.
The question is will we iteratively destroy each job until 5% of the current workers still can afford an opulent living while the other 95% are crushed by misery and accusations of inadequacies, or will we, as a society, realize that we can suppress the need for work altogether and try to make the smoothest transition possible?
This is not a technical question but a political one. Seeing how most politicians paint unemployed as subhumans that barely deserve to live, I am not that optimistic :-/