„Eine Weggabelung“: Wäschesortierroboter schürt KI-Hoffnungen und Befürchtungen bei Europas größtem Tech-Event – Humanoid namens Digit sorgte beim Web Summit für Auftrieb, äußerte aber auch Bedenken hinsichtlich Arbeitsplätzen, Sicherheit und Klima
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/15/laundry-sorting-robot-digit-web-summit-ai-future
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From the article
>Digit, a humanoid built by the US firm Agility Robotics, demonstrated how far AI has come in a few years by responding to voice commands – filtered through Google’s Gemini AI model – to sift through a pile of coloured T-shirts and place them in a basket.
>It wasn’t a seamless demonstration but the enthusiastic response, nearly two years on from the [launch of ChatGPT](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/05/what-is-ai-chatbot-phenomenon-chatgpt-and-could-it-replace-humans), reflected the excitement about all things AI that pervaded Europe’s biggest annual tech conference.
Unless this robot is gonna fold and put them up, it’s completely worthless to me.
Don’t miss the bigger picture they were showing off. The Gemini model is good enough to instruct robots from voice alone. Paired with computer vision and grippers it can do a ton more than sort laundry by color.
This year or the next it can start replacing the green house robots and pack and sort. Instead of needing to know how big a box is and how far the shelf is, it can do it’s own machine learning for both and get what you want done in what ever language you’re speaking.
Sure it’s limited to one or two repeated motions, but working in tandem with several other robots would allow one person to monitor and work with 10 of them all doing one or two steps.
Once it’s cheap enough to move clothes around a sewing machine, you’re going to see them competing with the most common labor in many nations. 3 dollars a day in a sweat shop adds up and the first one leasing these for 9 dollars a day working three shifts, tirelessly…welp….that’s all she wrote.
>> She added: “The pace of innovation is outpacing education. That is a dangerous future if we don’t rapidly invest in ensuring that everyone is proficient with AI, especially entry-level workers.”
That’s a wild thing to say.
Just a reminder that “AI labor replacement fear” is a euphemism for “capitalism will fucking destroy us the moment we give it AI”.
The article just talks about things that have been discussed hundreds of times. Taking jobs, data centers, ethics etc.
It didn’t even offer a video. But I found one. Be aware though, It is extremely disappointing. Out of all the agile AI robots we’ve seen, this is probably the lamest. Regarding folding clothes that someone here asked, yeah, this robot ain’t doing no folding.
https://youtu.be/4ccrwqm8Bm8?feature=shared