Everyone is trying to make it possible, without thinking if they actually should. I wonder how they expect people to work, to be able to buy all the junk they put out.
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Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots
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#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'll take it one step further - we have a 2-year-old toddler and recently I realized that I was spending a full, solid, real 1-1.5 hours per day doing the same kitchen & play area clean-up. Every day. No matter how hard I tried, the daily chaos of my wife & I working from home, preparing meals, and our family spending time in this part of the house meant it just needed this work. I hired a lovely person recently who…
The real cause is that you and your wife never learned how to keep house. I'm in the same boat. My house is cluttered. Not like hoarder bad but stuff just piles up. I've been a guest where the house is always neat and everything is put away. The hosts just never let anything get out of place. Everything they own has a place and it always goes back there immediately after its used. They maintain this organized well ke…
Those people are just talking the 1-1.5 hours that this person described and have spread it out rather than doing it at the end of the day.
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#193I've always found the idea of letting strangers clean my home strange. Maybe I grew up in the wrong tax bracket. I see cleaning your own home, as well as other chores (dishes, laundry) as an act of self-hygiene. If you want a robot to do your chores, that gives me the same feeling as desiring a robot to bathe you, wipe your bottom and genitals after the toilet, brush your teeth for you etc. Of course these are not ap…
I am quite similar but this will be inevitable when I get old:
> desiring a robot to bathe you, wipe your bottom and genitals after the toilet, brush your teeth for you
My (EU) country is heading demographic catastrophe, so either I die in my feces or robots help me with hygiene.
Meanwhile I plan to downsize my home to reduce todays chores.
Re: Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots
#194Related/unrelated? Airbnb host alleges $12k in damages after SF startup tested a robot in his house https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48317093
Re: Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots
#195Looks to me like they want to get in on 3D mapping homes that haven't already been mapped by a Roomba or other similar bot. There is plenty of money to be made selling home layouts to police. At the same time the customer's home is being cleaned, all objects can be scanned to data-mine the customer's shopping preferences. Maybe training AI and bots is part of what they're trying to accomplish, but I just can't help w…
There is plenty of money to be made selling home layouts to police Is there?
Came here to post exactly this. Is there, really?
Re: Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots
#196Training robots will require data they won't be collecting. All in all a pointless waste of money driven by hype and a fundamental lack of technical knowledge.
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#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
> don't use dry cleaning services I agree with the rest of your comment but fuck dry cleaning services. Who does dry cleaning regularly?
I could be completely wrong about this, but I think a lot of women causal clothing specifically recommend dry cleaning, compared to men (unless you are in a field that wear suits everyday).
This is maybe sort of true, but few garments that say "dry clean only" actually need to be dry cleaned. This has typically more to do with laziness on the part of the manufacturers.
Things like lining, interfacing and structure are often strong indicators that a garment actually has to be dry-cleaned. I think those are at best only very slightly more common in women's casual clothing.
Re: Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots
#198Looks to me like they want to get in on 3D mapping homes that haven't already been mapped by a Roomba or other similar bot. There is plenty of money to be made selling home layouts to police. At the same time the customer's home is being cleaned, all objects can be scanned to data-mine the customer's shopping preferences. Maybe training AI and bots is part of what they're trying to accomplish, but I just can't help w…
There is plenty of money to be made selling home layouts to police Is there?
They'd save money if they knew exactly which spot of the wall to shoot through to kill the innocent sleeping person next door, that's at least a few dollars a week in bullets alone.
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you rent out your place and don’t take any photos before?
I’m sure Airbnb operators get comfortable turning it over every few days without having to constantly take photos. Most guests don’t bring robots in to smash up the dishwasher and dent the walls
Sure but taking a photo of everything in its “good” state seems reasonable.
You don’t need to constantly update the photos if nothing gets smashed.
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
This sounds like a decent deal for the segment of customers who are happy to have their shopping preferences mapped (which seems to be almost all) and don’t care if a 3rd party has their home layout.
My home layout was approved by the local council, and is freely available for anyone to see. I get personal belongings, but who cares about home layout?
You are conflicting room layout to home layout. In genreal, blueprints or something similar are available. Where your bed, sofa, and tables are located isn't.