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Re: Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot

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Maybe it's just me, but everything about this announcement feels very I, Robot... and not in a good way.

> allowing the entire fleet to upload terabytes of data for continuous learning and improvement

Ugh.

Edit: Yes, I meant I, Robot the film. U.S. Robotics and the like.

Re: Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot

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post #2

Maybe it's just me, but everything about this announcement feels very I, Robot... and not in a good way. > allowing the entire fleet to upload terabytes of data for continuous learning and improvement Ugh. Edit: Yes, I meant I, Robot the film. U.S. Robotics and the like.

Robotics AI has a massive "training data bottleneck" issue. If you aren't using your deployed robot fleet to get more real world training data, you're just stupid.

Re: Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot

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What does your life around your house look like when you can shamelessly leave a mess everywhere? It almost makes the uncomfortable with the amount of laziness it enables. At least with a human maid you still feel shame leaving a mess, but a robot?

If you believe that thankless, pointless busywork is a virtue, then surely, Sisyphus must be the most virtuous man of them all.

Re: Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot

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What does your life around your house look like when you can shamelessly leave a mess everywhere? It almost makes the uncomfortable with the amount of laziness it enables. At least with a human maid you still feel shame leaving a mess, but a robot?

Should I feel bad to use a dishwasher or a washing machine?

Also one of the chores I hate doing the most is folding clothes. If I could have a machine that does it well every time, I'd buy it.

Re: Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot

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What does your life around your house look like when you can shamelessly leave a mess everywhere? It almost makes the uncomfortable with the amount of laziness it enables. At least with a human maid you still feel shame leaving a mess, but a robot?

If you believe that thankless, pointless busywork is a virtue, then surely, Sisyphus must be the most virtuous man of them all.

Cleaning is pointless?

Re: Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you believe that thankless, pointless busywork is a virtue, then surely, Sisyphus must be the most virtuous man of them all.

Cleaning is pointless?

If there's an automated system to do it for you conveniently, it becomes.

Re: Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot

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What does your life around your house look like when you can shamelessly leave a mess everywhere? It almost makes the uncomfortable with the amount of laziness it enables. At least with a human maid you still feel shame leaving a mess, but a robot?

How much of a difference is there really between someone who lives in the west and is tidy and someone who isn't when things like carbon emissions, landfill consumption, and microplastics production are the same?

You can wash the dishes and tidy up after every meal, rinse and sort your recycling but you're still trashing the planet more or less the same as the person who does none of those things.

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