2025 version of the mechanical turk
Elon Musk’s Optimus Robot shuts down after reproducing the gesture of its human operator removing their headset
Submitted 2 months ago by King@sh.itjust.works to videos@lemmy.world
https://v.redd.it/cuwetslmen5g1/CMAF_720.mp4
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bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
DandomRude@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Indeed, a case for Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, a service that is shamelessly and deliberately named after its historical model. The principle has not changed after all this time: poorly paid people do the work to make it look as if machines could perform this task.
It is a very popular thing among all the companies that claimed that “artificial intelligence” was the future.
alekwithak@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They’ve already demonstrated time and again that these robots only exist so the rich can have slaves without actually having to see or interact with the slaves.
scrollo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I thought Mturk was primarily used for labeling data for ML models, i.e., “here’s data. Look at it and give it a label according to our specifications”. Do they have a component of Mturk for piloting devices?
Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Mecha Türk intensifies
Valmond@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Remember cyberguy?
HereIAm@lemmy.world 2 months ago
With his delicate all these robots move it’s nice to see one throwing some weight around. And it’s holding up really well, you’d assume a connection would come loose after the first swing.
victorz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Trial and
ERROR!!!amirite
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Everything about Elon Musk is a scam.
olafurp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The Indian operator just finished his shift
Rooster326@programming.dev 2 months ago
He meant AI as in Affordable Indians
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 2 months ago
I was gonna post a joke but nothing will top this lol
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Elon Musk once again proving that he’s more of a Justin Hammer than a Tony Stark (who was already a problematic figure, but at least had talent and SOME sense of right and wrong)
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
MissJinx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Problematic? He was a Genius, Billionaire, Playboy, Philanthropist and the Hero that saved the world!
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Elon Musk was in Iron Man 2 because he was the closest thing to Tony Stark. And then Lex Luthor looked and sounded like Elon thinks he does, because he’s the closest thing to Lex Luthor.
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My optimist: surely Musk will not be able to get away with being caught in this obvious lie.
My realist: he’s gonna get away with it again.
FatVegan@leminal.space 2 months ago
The optimistic take is that no one is that stupid.
The realistic take is that musk fanboys will claim that the robot is so advanced, that it thinks it’s alive and mimics someone taking his headset off, because it has seen it.
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m sure we’ll see, “the AI was trained on human operator recordings - which unfortunately included headset removal actions, Tesla is now working to filter that from the model”.
Overconfidentiality@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Sadly it’s not even limited to fanboys, just the completely oblivious. I was kinda shocked recently to explain to a work friend how idiotic musk is with receipts. He was perplexed, “… But he’s that smart tech billionaire, right?” Just taking the world at face value.
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If we wanted to to do that we’d say it wasn’t taking headphones off, it was throwing up its arms in panic that it was having a stroke. See the immediate collapse
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Remember those Tesla solar roof tiles? Fake. Made by a prop company in LA.
Tesla solar still exists, but they just install typical panels, because PUTTING SOLAR TILES IN THE SHADY ROOF SIDE WAS STUPID.AA5B@lemmy.world 2 months ago
While I really don’t want to defend that flop, they didn’t. Their goal was to create identical tiles so the roof looked consistent but only some would be the more expensive solar tiles
sobchak@programming.dev 2 months ago
Are you sure? I remember seeing other legitimate roofing companies selling solar roof tiles too. I think I even remember watching an installation video. They weren’t rigid tiles, they were flexible and nailed down similarly to shingles.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
NatakuNox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I want to see footage of the backroom where the controllers are located so badly. Imagine how silly it must look, just a room full of people wearing VR headsets while trying to make their movements look as robotic as possible.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
Be funnier if the robot ripped its own head off.
Smoogs@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I kinda clicked into here expecting that outcome
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Robocop 2 is a hell of a movie.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
He doesn’t shoot then off, he tears them off.
nailbar@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Precisely the scene I thought of too.
Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Also notice how it crushes the water bottle? Not safe to be around.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 2 months ago
First thing I noticed. This is like standing next to a manufacturing robot, except without the black and yellow safety square that tells you how far its reach is.
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
“What is my purpose?”
“You hand out the water”
“Are you kidding me, billions of dollars. Countless hours of research. The rare materials in my chassis cost more than you’ll see in your lifetime. You know what, actually fuck this.”
Hitlerbot has left the chatDiplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The robot apocalypse will be teleoperated from a scam compound in Myanmar.
ch00f@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oooh, I kind of love that. Like there’s a classic robot uprising, but the whole robot rights and robot sentience thing is just a smoke screen to weaken the opposition’s resolve. It’s all just a billionaire behind the curtain.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
handing out water is actually a great challenge because it requires sensitivity (to apply just the right amount of grip pressure)
so it’s a great way to demonstrate sensitivity of the machine.
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 2 months ago
sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org 2 months ago
wow its been a minute since ive seen this
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not my fault there’s constant “shit site” reference/sources.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Upside: Service workers can now work from home
Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Reality: Prisoners can and will be required to work as service workers from their prison cells.
Rooster326@programming.dev 2 months ago
I, for one, can’t wait till the inevitable robot murder committed vicariously via a Prison worker controlling a robot.
plyth@feddit.org 2 months ago
With 24h surveillance prisons are not needed, just the mandatory work.
LemmyBruceLeeMarvin@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
It’s called capitalist innovation, sweaty
possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
ah god damnit that’s fucking bleak and i know you’re right…
billwashere@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well shit….
CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
If I send in my robot does that mean I don’t need to commute?
howrar@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
This is something that can happen with an autonomous robot if it was trained via imitation learning, which is one of the common ways of doing things when using transformers, and transformers are in vogue right now.
But knowing how tech demonstrations usually work, it’s much more likely that this is actually just a robot being remote controlled by another human.
desertdruid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Yeah, Elon’s tech demos are usually remote controlled
mvirts@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just imagine it was your hand instead of that tiny water bottle.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
you misspelled penis. We all know the end game for these robots.
lastunusedusername2@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The polite word is “cylinder”
ieatpwns@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Thanks I needed that
hark@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Droptimus.
Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Maybe it was trying to end its tortured existence like those prototype replacement models in Robocop II…
AtariDump@lemmy.world 2 months ago
danc4498@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is legit a bit horrifying. The robot ripped its own consciousness out of his body and died.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 months ago
To make you feel better, this was the remote operator, that makes the robot appear autonomous, removing their headset before handing control off to someone else to keep the lie going.
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
One would think there would be a failsafe buffer in there, for at least a few seconds.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
It’s how you know it was smart.
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Why it look like whoever was controlling it just took their headset off? User takes viser off robot falls from lack of user controls? Tell me this was not actually just another mechanical turk.
Taldan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It was AI – Actually Indians
floppybiscuits@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Anonymous Indians since we’ve never met them
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
i read that omg seems its always just a room full of exploited humans.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 months ago
Reminds me of the scene from Robocop 2 when they are introducing new robocop models and one literally rips his helmet off and his skull just screams. As a kid I found it both funny and scary at the same time.
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Surrogates coming true I see.
kokesh@lemmy.world 2 months ago
musk is such a clown.
Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 2 months ago
It can’t even keep itself upright without teleoperation?
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
This is why I know Elon won’t get that ridiculous bonus. He has to sell a million of these robots.
altphoto@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Thr question is can that thing jack me off and can it look much less creepy?
BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
The most recent Defunctland video made me believe we might actually see full autonomous robots performing pretty rudimentary tasks while looking humanoid in the relatively near future. This uh… Isn’t that.
ramenshaman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Lmao
Aganim@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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ItsMeSpez@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What is this from?
Aganim@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s a scene from 1990’s RoboCop 2.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
What I thought of immediately.
Sunflier@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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KenOh@feddit.online 2 months ago
I came here expecting to post it myself, delighted to not have to put in the effort.
VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Kind of what I hoped happened, without the corpse. Could have been cool to see it rip its head off.