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If I was still in California, I'd be very tempted to get right in the face of devout computer touchers that still worship King Bazinga and laugh obnoxiously loud in their face in a way that might provoke a fistfight.

That's how I feel right now. For some reason, this many layers of blantant lies with no consequences and credulous techbros still buying into it sort of entertains me but also pisses me off enough that throwing hands, just once, might feel good.

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[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Their last "humanoid robot demo" was literally just a guy in a suit, now they're doing literally just a guy controlling waldoes, what progress

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 38 points 2 years ago (1 children)

From AI to this shit its just the sequel to the Mechanical Turk but on a societal scale.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] pinguinu@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 2 years ago

Mechanical YanKKKs

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Tesla always fakes demos. Literally. Always. The first model S demo was a Mercedes with different body panels

This robotaxi thing? Same thing. I'd be willing to bet on it. The only thing that's surprising is that rubes keep falling for it.

https://dawnproject.com/teslas-history-of-faking-demonstration-videos/

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And just think, he's probably going to be part of Trump's government.

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That event would make nice Hitman level.

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's that one level in Miami where you can kill a techbro guy by messing with the identification system on the killbot he's pitching to the US military.

[–] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

New headcanon for the tech demo in Robert Cop 1 just dropped

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You drug the bartender controller asleep, then take control of his rig and make the mechanical bartender do something very cool

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 years ago

I was thinking taking control of the loservan and then running over would be more spectacular.

[–] jack@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Do you have any idea how often I have exactly this thought?

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

theyve been talking about doing this to replace baristas and waiters and stuff with cheaper 3rd world labor remotely for a long time now.

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Really incredible that they're going for low-wage humanoid telerobots instead of just robotic arm baristas/bartenders (which actually work & exist, but presumably are too expensive & don't look like a slave).

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Amazing, we finally got a more advanced version of this guy and it only cost many millions of dollars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK6sqxT0ttQ

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

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[–] someone@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's really telling that all the batshit crazy scams that come from that asshole are always from the non-SpaceX companies he owns. Shotwell obviously knows how to manage her boss so he doesn't fuck things up for her.

[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

SpaceX isn't publicly traded, there's no stock price to juice with lies

[–] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 years ago

True, but SpaceX's entire premise of colonizing mars during our lifetime is potentially the most damaging lie that Elon pushes. Mars will not save us. No tech innovation is going to save us and Mars is never going to happen if we can't even take care of the planet that we have.

[–] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 years ago

I am pissed for all the millions of kids (globally) who got into tech dreaming of changing the world only to find out that everything big tech promised was either a lie or is actually making the world worse off. Or worse still, that they wasted the very best years of their lives and took on crippling levels of debt for a computer science degree that is now worthless because capitalists have decided that training juniors doesn't maximize short term profits. Fuck capitalism.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So they can do Avatar shit? Or was OZ just behind the curtain?

Might have been cooler if he said this was human controlled via Starlink instead of A.I. otherwise he's got a knock off universal attraction.

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

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[–] alexandra_kollontai@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

I KNEW IT. I feel vindicated