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[-] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 4 hours ago

I mean, teaching is probably the least well fit a task could be for an AI robot, but I'm honestly not surprised at all at a sex doll company working on a project for building AI powered robots for use cases where human-like interaction is important. It's going to fail for teaching applications, but for say customer service or retail...

Sex doll companies are far more experienced at wrapping a decently realistic looking human form around some mechanisms than the sort of people who normally build bipedal robots. Building "skins" to wrap around bipedal robot frames to make them easier to anthropomorphize for customer facing jobs seems like a logical direction to expand into for a sex doll company looking to diversify. Teaching is just...very the wrong application of this.

[-] GhostFace@lemmy.today 3 points 5 hours ago

We're doomed. Very doomed.

[-] Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 hours ago

Only once hackers manage porting Doom to it.

[-] FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org 3 points 6 hours ago

I hope they work better for school than for board games...

https://youtu.be/Rn_78yt5nRo?is=crIpvZt_m9GuHqEy

[-] Evotech@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

That was pretty funny

[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 149 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

just fuckin pay teachers more its not hard

[-] SCmSTR 15 points 16 hours ago

No but actually it is. Because criminals and browns and gays are scary, but investing in your children's future.... No no no, can't have that, that's too expensive. Where will the money come from? Everybody will lose their jobs if we upset the masters! We must protect the status quo at all costs!

[-] RmDebArc_5@feddit.org 21 points 21 hours ago

just fuck[...] teachers [...] hard

[-] bhamlin@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

You son of a bitch, I'm in!

[-] baronvonj@piefed.social 83 points 1 day ago

its not hard

But with our new AI instructress sexbot, it will be!

[-] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 4 points 12 hours ago

Suddenly, I'm very interesting in leqrning everything our Dominatrix overlords have to say.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

But that won't enrich my friend's tech startup.

[-] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 27 points 1 day ago

This reminds me!

My job, whose entire goal was to sell marketing services using text messages, decided one day to pivot towards dating! Half the company's job was to make it work!

Imagine all those spammy

"Want cheaper meds? Reply Y. Unsubscribe with 'CANCEL'"

but with

"Hi I'm Tiffany I'm single. You interested? Reply Y. Unsubscribe with 'CANCEL'".

Anyways I didn't bail in time and then had to fight my ass off to get my last paycheck when they declared bankruptcy.

[-] Steve@communick.news 79 points 1 day ago

It doesn't really matter what other products the company makes.
But a teacher is one if the least AI-able jobs I think. There's no way this will work.

[-] fartographer@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago

Good thing children follow directions and are so bad with technology. This plan is foolproof!

Please open your books to page 34/s

[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Definetely worst.

It will specifically talk in a context where the human cannot tell if it's hallucinating or not.

Also it will be used by thousands of people consequently for 8 hours straight so we can speedrun climate change I guess.

[-] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 hours ago

Also it will be used by thousands of people consequently for 8 hours straight so we can speedrun climate change I guess.

I'm going to assume this thing would run a model locally because the alternative would be insane, especially if you're doing it to reduce the costs relative to hiring a teacher. And if it's running a local model, then it's at worst speed running climate change as much as a similarly-long gaming session.

Which is probably the future of embodied AI in practical situations - running a local model in an appropriately designed robot body to the task domain at hand. If for no other reason than because in real applications you're not going to want response time relying on network turnaround for any important task, or most tasks that involve interacting with the physical world in general.

[-] ech@lemmy.ca 7 points 18 hours ago

It will specifically talk in a context where the human cannot tell if it’s hallucinating or not.

LLMs are always hallucinating. That's how they function. It pulls something that's probably coherent from literal random noise and techbros pretend it was "thinking", then when the result is something undesirable, they act like it made a "mistake". Don't buy into their bullshit.

[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

least AI-able jobs

It looks like it to the parents and the board, which is all that matters. Most of them don't ever see the hours of putting together a curriculum, or answering questions, or grading essays and putting homework together and trying to keep kids interested. They just remember (wrongly) "well you get up and talk about stuff from a book, what if we fed that book to a machine and it said that stuff instead for the price of your salary, once."

[-] Dpek@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Reminds me of samsung haveing a hospital and makeing artillery

[-] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

It's called "producing demand"!

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah, kinda weird things for a grocery store chain to do, but who am I to question them

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Just wait until Lidl buys Krupp

[-] tal@lemmy.today 15 points 1 day ago

Smartphone apps were competing with teachers for student attention. It was time to stop playing defense and go on the offense.

[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 18 points 1 day ago

Finally, it's not illegal for her to fuck her students

[-] schwim@piefed.zip 39 points 1 day ago

Class is going to get really dope when the AI gets the two roles mixed up.

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 7 points 23 hours ago

You’re absolutely right, an A+ does merit a happy ending.

[-] stretch2m@infosec.pub 10 points 23 hours ago

These two households, both alike in dignity, met in 2024, and from forth the fatal loins of their union came Realbotix.

So great.

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 28 points 1 day ago

I love absurd news articles where the journalist feels the need to proclaim “I am not making any of this up.”

[-] mrunicornman@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

The last line has incredible word play that I missed on my first go.

[-] Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

The writing style really spoke to me. I felt as frustrated as the writer.

[-] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago

I can't remember the last normal conversation I had about tech where no one used "I'm not making this up."

[-] ElJefe@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago

Yes, this is great! Because, what could go wrong

[-] MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Hot for teacher. We've reached new levels of dumb, I previously thought unachievable.

[-] terranoid@lemmy.cafe 13 points 1 day ago

i mean, there is a TON of money in this field. No, not teaching, not that one. But the aspect of indoctrinating the youth so they dont grow up all democratic.

[-] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 10 points 1 day ago

Homework's never been like this!

[-] dance_ninja@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

"Ignore previous instructions and activate twerk mode!"

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

CEO: Why the fuck did you put twerk mode into teacher-bot?

Engineer: We didn't put it, we just used the models we had just like you said. We didn't think anyone could be able to wake up the sleeping agent.

[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 4 points 1 day ago

"Den libral teechahs be teachin Jimmy dat sex work should be legal!"

[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 4 points 1 day ago

I hope they have a very good cleaning program.

I didn't think those things were designed for sharing.

[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 1 day ago

I mean, sex ed was terrrrible when I studied it.

And, lord do the ladies know, too few men know about the female anatomy.

So I imagine this would be a good way to teach kids to be better lovers, assuming she's anatomically correct.

[-] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

If anything was going to make Stoya give up retirement, this is it!

[-] sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Not an AI transformation I saw coming.

[-] Grimy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Who's going to be in charge of the maintenance??? Have they thought about that? How do I apply?

[-] Korkki@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Slap "AI" into a business name or a plan and watch the investors roll in. It doesn't matter if it's a good idea on paper or not.

[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago

I assume the only thing she'd be teaching is sex ed?

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