Now, the drone-captured data is sent off to contractors at SewerAI, who run it through their AI-assisted algorithms to identify defects automatically.
Now this is the kind of AI shit (pun intended) I can get behind (pun even more intended).
This is the kind of AI that will change the world, not the word salad machines that burn through massive amounts of compute to sound kind of intelligent. The ability to train an AI model to identify problems is incredibly useful, whether it's sewer blockages or cancer cells.
yep. all we have to do is keep incrementally improving lives with tech, instead of being assholes to each other. Imagine the world, if peace was the most researched branch
Marianne Williamson got laughed at about this in the 2020 US primary, but she was the only person who meaningfully advocated for peace among nations, going so far as to propose a Department of Peace.
Peace isn't something that can be managed in its own department. Peace is the (unstable) result of a lot of other things being very carefully managed.
Sounds like a shitty job.
AI is great at doing shitty jobs.
And ai is shitty at doing great jobs
Yeah I'm sure he regrets quitting his job to pass butter
"What is my purpose?"
“You clean poop chutes.”
"NOT LIKE THAT! NOT LIKE THAT!"
Cue the worship of the "Master" that sends them holy shit a la "Reason" by Isaac Asimov.
This is honestly such an uplifting news that gives me hope for the future.
Prefer this over stories like a 10 year old that raised money to make up for lack of health care or some dystopian thing like that.
Ten year olds operate the drones 👀
Two words I never thought I’d see together… poop drone.
Honestly I though somebody was using drones to throw shit at people below.
One job that we can happily hand over to robots
Well, that’s a brand new sentence.
Sewer drone found footage could make a great horror movie.
Please don’t give Hollywood any ideas.. like the Blair witch project.
So much for Mike Rowes dirty jobs.
(Jk, those things were always a load of shit anyway.)
eh...
mike rowe's full of shit. don't think for a moment any of those jobs were made up though.
Man now I miss cash cab...
It's basically like saying "illegal immigrants" aren't made up for Trump. Like, obviously people coming into the country illegally exist, but the dude was just making shit up when it came to the actual numbers.
iirc he was a musician before this gig so... yeah, hard working blue collar stuff rrwwarr ford tuff hemi merika fuckyea
I remember he was shilling for trump after he won his first term, he was trying to play it off "it's not that bad" that he got voted.
Who services the poop drones I ask you...
Some unlucky roboticist is stuck cleaning poop off treads, testing sensors and resoldering connections while wearing gloves and just hoping they don't tear...
The same people who cleans the mess from those adult videos and the confetti from AGT/BGT.
They need to make mining drones mandatory, too. Humans have no business being in holes. They are not their holes, they do not belong in them.
I'm looking at you, spelunkers.
The bots yearn for the mines
I had poop drones on my bingo card!
Have vaginal scented candles been invented?
You are multiple years too late on vagina candles: https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2020/jan/13/why-is-gwyneth-paltrow-selling-a-candle-that-smells-like-her-vagina-goop
That's a bingo! Is that how you say it?
I almost beat Sewer Shark. I was made for this!
So now all Lemmy is on board with this AI. Why is acceptable for technology to take the jobs of plumbers (usually poorer) but it's evil for it to take the job of 'artists' (usually rich)????
This is not generative AI. It is machine learning- which has been around for aaages.
Generative ai is also machine learning, and you could say that the ai is generating movements and actions for the drone. My question, that was not about the underlying technology or semantics, still stands.
Legitimately- what's the difference, in your mind?
I'm on board w/ both honestly, as unpopular as that may sound. If a job can be automated, it should.
I want to point out that an AI being able to do a job doesn't mean that job is now obsolete for humans. There will always be room for that human touch, which is why things like kit cars and hand-carved statues are still a thing in an era of automated car factories and 3D printers.
I've been getting into chess recently, and the best chess AIs can consistently beat top humans, yet there are still tournaments for human competitors to compete against each other. The human touch will always have value.
I think Lemmy is just scared of change. To be fair, so am I, but as long as I learn to adapt, I should get net benefits from technological advancements.
I don't think jobs this hazardous are generally done by plumbers. Sending in a robot instead of a human makes sense.
Especially when the robot is better at finding faults before people's homes collapse into a sinkhole.
'artists' (usually rich)
I ~~know~~ think you're trolling, but…
Not trolling at all. I used to hang around an art school when I was a teenager, the vast majority of those kids came from pretty well off families. The small percentage that were of a more working class background were there to get into graphic design or the-like in college, so they didn't end up being artists.
A quick web search gives that only 8% of artists are working class in the UK which is a wealthy country, I'd bet the percentage goes down in poorer ones.
Their wealth comes from the well off families, then secondarily from the art that sells well due to the artist (through their parents) being well connected to other rich people through the school that mostly filters in favor of rich people.
We are all poop drones on this glorious day.
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