• LesserAbe@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    This is astroturfed. No one was demanding they prove the robot wasn’t human. It’s a thing the company planned to do ahead of time, and then they’ve planted this story. I’ve seen this posted several places, but I haven’t encountered anyone who was like “oh wow, I thought it was a person”

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    7 hours ago

    The video suggested that people could not believe that such innovation could come from a Chinese company… No. People are skeptical of Chinese startups because so many are scams and full of shit.

    Innovation can come from anywhere. A tech demo where they faked “people not believing it’s a robot” doesn’t help to reduce that well-earned reputation.

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      4 hours ago

      if it’s on site it’s part of the tech demo.

      much more likely to be some dude in the Philippines.

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    13 hours ago

    There are people with prosthetic legs. Was expecting the chest to be cut open but they just did a leg. That proves nothing.

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        10 hours ago

        A healthy amount of skeptism is good for people. You can’t just go along everything being take at face value.

        But also there are people who’ll down vote content just because the content is in foreign language, people or accent.

        And also there are people who think videos that existed before the AI could generate a face, are somehow AI now.

        I don’t know where I’m going with this. just saying internet is fucking weird and people here are even weirder. Like me

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          11 hours ago

          All of them? Hardly. This very demo is a counterexample.

          I suspect it’s more that lots of people don’t want these to be actual robots.

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        10 hours ago

        Why is it so hard for people to believe that this is an actual robot?

        Because we live in an age of tech-bro grifting. The great grifter Musk had some person in a skin suit pretending to be a robot. We have all these “AI” companies selling air castles.

        Anyone who isn’t skeptical is gullible.

        Why would it be real? The video you’ve sent is a puppet on a string, suspended from the roof.

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          10 hours ago

          It’s clearly not suspended from that cable. You can clearly see how much slack there is in it. This is just another example of striving to find some excuse not to believe that it’s real, no matter how much of a stretch it takes to get to that conclusion.

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      11 hours ago

      The most convincing part for me was how clearly unprepared to be on stage the tech with the scissors was

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    10 hours ago

    Real or not it’s comical to see wankies seething over this. But, if it was Apple telling you nothing much but “the best iPhone yet”, they’ll defend every god damn criticism of it like their identity depends on it.

    Fight on about who’s more gullible, I guess.

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    13 hours ago

    I understand the need to wrap the mechanism to help keep it clean, but why no zippers or Velcro or something? From the perspective of a technician, cover panels should be easily removable for access, especially on a prototype. Cutting off the covering onstage seems… dramatic.

    Also, um… why does it have boobs?

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      11 hours ago

      Well this isn’t a prototype, it’s a tech demo.

      Not only does it have a full outer covering, it also has a thick underweave layer that makes it more fleshy. It has a surprising amount of corners and pinchy bits underneath - honestly sealing it completely is probably also to protect nearby humans

      As for the boobs… Well, I kinda figured humanity would wait until we had a generation of useful robots before giving them boobs, but we were always going to end up here…

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      Also, um… why does it have boobs?

      You know why. Because it makes it look more appealing.

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    They’ve got the movement down, but so far robots in general are remotely operated for household chores besides just picking up stuff.

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    10 hours ago

    What a useless article about a short video of a guy talking over a video they didn’t record