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businessboyz t1_j9v3n69 wrote

Reply to comment by Ssider69 in Microsoft Bing AI ends chat when prompted about 'feelings' by Ssider69

>And if it’s not ready for prime time . .don’t release it

Good thing they didn’t and this has been an open waitlist beta so that the developers can gather real world experience and update the product accordingly.

You can’t ever anticipate all the ways that users will use your product and design a fail-proof piece of software. That’s why products go through many stages of testing and release with wider and more public audiences each iteration.

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Mister_Jay_Peg t1_j9v3b44 wrote

Reply to comment by PEVEI in Almost 40% of domestic tasks could be done by robots ‘within decade’ by altmorty

Have I said I had an issue outside of that? The article is garbage because of the headline and it's inference that this can all be done in that timeframe.

Beyond that, the headline is even MORE garbage because the researcher says nothing specifically about "robots". She talks about automation.

The best part is that in the article... And this really is the best part...

The researcher says essentially the exact same thing I did in my first comment.

Here's the quote:

> But she told the BBC that the expense of technology meant the use of household robots could also lead to “a rise of inequality in free time” - with only richer households able to afford the technology.

Huh... With only richer households able to afford the technology.

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erosram t1_j9v36y9 wrote

Reply to comment by 9-11GaveMe5G in Fourth Circuit: Individuals Have a First Amendment Right to Livestream Their Own Traffic Stops by mepper

Ya that’s a completely different scenario.

The cops saw 2 people standing beside each other and smiling. One of them just said hi, and wouldn’t say anything else.

This lasted no more than a few seconds. No need to make everything racial. Nobody would have known what to do in those few seconds.

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Mister_Jay_Peg t1_j9v1y2b wrote

Reply to comment by PEVEI in Almost 40% of domestic tasks could be done by robots ‘within decade’ by altmorty

Please point out where I have said that I object to mass adoption.

Seriously. Point it out. I wanna see where your disconnect is. Because all I have said... Since this has started... And I will say it again... Straight copy/pasted from my previous posts...

The idea that 40% of tasks in a home will be automated within the next 10 years is bullshit.

How does that equate to my objecting to mass adoption?

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altmorty OP t1_j9v1vzq wrote

Reply to comment by Mister_Jay_Peg in Almost 40% of domestic tasks could be done by robots ‘within decade’ by altmorty

Tech moves far more rapidly than it did back then.

>Shit, I grew up in the 80's and I can vividly remember seeing the price for a Macintosh in 1984 was $2500 not adjusted for inflation. That amounts to almost $7,200 today. The first computer in my house that my middle class parents could afford was the Tandy model in like 1988, and that was still like a grand at the time.

That's weird. There were plenty of way more affordable home computers back then. The ZX Spectrum was £125 (~$188) in 1982.

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Mister_Jay_Peg t1_j9v122h wrote

Reply to comment by PEVEI in Almost 40% of domestic tasks could be done by robots ‘within decade’ by altmorty

I just used the examples you laid out, hoss.

Oh, and the PC isn't from the Industrial Revolution. And it still took nearly 40 years.

Here. Let's use something more modern. Self-driving cars. That's almost a thing now, right? Almost commercially viable? Probably what, 10-12 years away before it becomes possible on a mid-range sedan like the Ford Fusion?

Wanna know how long the self-driving car has been a theoretical "just around the corner" innovation? They've been talking about it since the mid-50's.

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Mister_Jay_Peg t1_j9v0pxr wrote

Reply to comment by PEVEI in Almost 40% of domestic tasks could be done by robots ‘within decade’ by altmorty

I need a whoosh gif for you. I really do.

I'll break it down for you here, step by step:

  1. The article says that 40% of household tasks could be automated in 10 years.
  2. I comment that the timeline is ludicrous because that tech this is going to be too expensive for this timeframe to be realistic.
  3. You bring up 3 technologies that people said would be too expensive to own.
  4. I show that all three examples of technology absolutely in no way went from hypothetical to middle-class reality within 3 generations, let alone 10 years.

So my point is, and I hope you've made it this far...

The idea that 40% of tasks in a home will be automated within the next 10 years is bullshit.

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v12vanquish t1_j9v0779 wrote

Reply to comment by crazy28 in Fourth Circuit: Individuals Have a First Amendment Right to Livestream Their Own Traffic Stops by mepper

One example does not prove the statement that cops are out murdering black people and lying about it.

“More rigorous research into the question of whether police killings reflect racial bias is in its infancy, and it has been subject to intense debates over the appropriate methods. But existing studies are divided on the bias question. Many papers fail to find bias in lethal force, though one of the most careful studies in the literature—of an unnamed city with a high murder rate—does find that white cops discharge their guns several times as often as black cops when sent to 911 calls in heavily black neighborhoods.

Clearly, the most extreme narratives, in which police kill nonthreatening, unarmed black men with high frequency, are false. But research continues as to whether there is some detectable, smaller level of bias in the nationwide data and whether problems manifest themselves differently in different places.”

https://www.manhattan-institute.org/verbruggen-fatal-police-shootings

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