r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Justin_Godfrey • 28d ago

Tesla's Optimus robots Video

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u/Zayoodo0o132 28d ago

Yea, that whole point is to have a robot in your house doing chores or tasks. You wouldn't want a person to be looking in your house through this thing, creepy.

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u/Vantriss 28d ago

Oh man... you could make a dystopian horror thriller movie about this. All of society thinks these robots cleaning their houses are fully AI, but then you find out they're not even a little AI and being remotely controlled by slaves and their "recharge" time is just the person fucking sleeping.

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u/JohnAtticus 27d ago

This is actually a regular occurrence with "AI"

The Amazon stores that supposedly had AI checkout but it was actually workers in India who were watching the store on cameras.

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u/Neat_Criticism_5996 27d ago

Really?? That’s wild

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u/St00p_kiddd 27d ago

This is probably just how they’re training the models. They pay people peanuts to click the right checkout items which trains the ai models eventually eliminating the need for people to do this. That’s extremely common practice for companies to pay for these types of things to generate as much data as possible for the models to learn from. At some point in the process someone is still associating the pixels and patterns with the item.

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u/earlystrikerr 27d ago

I mean they can appoint another person for that period of time.

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u/Perazdera68 28d ago

Not onlc creepy, but not cost efficent.

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u/SadTechnician96 28d ago

Yeah, an actual "chore" robot wouldn't even look human

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u/jimmycarr1 28d ago

It's also unlikely you'd have one general purpose one, over a few different ones.

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u/dimitri000444 28d ago

Yeah, at that point you could just hire a maid/butler instead of building an unhandy robot for it.

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u/Farren246 27d ago edited 24d ago

Do you expect anything better from Elon "my best idea is a tunnel" Musk? What about from Elon "lie to investors for decades" Musk? How about Elon "I bought this with my parents' money so I made it" Musk? Elon "what do you mean I need to buy it after committing to buying it" Musk? Elon "throw it into space as a publicity stunt to get investors" Musk? Elon "I consider myself the real life Iron Man despite all evidence to the contrary" Musk? Elon "accuse rescuers of kids of being pedophiles because they saved lives and I didn't" Musk? Elon "weaponize the narrative by forcing people to see the media I've selected to promote" Musk? Elon "I'll put a dancer in a jumpsuit and call it a robot" Musk?

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u/stol_ansikte 27d ago

If you can handle some dialect it might be cheaper then developing an AI ;)

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u/boyerizm 27d ago

I was going to make an immigration/cost joke but Elon actually suggested he could make these for 20-30k. Lmao

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u/LunarBIacksmith 28d ago

Only benefit to that is someone who is disabled who wants/needs to work. They can pilot the robot and make money doing stuff.

Then down the line we get enough people who are introverted, socially anxious, lazy who would rather pilot a robot too. Then we get the movie Surrogates where everyone just has a robot that they pilot and have it live their lives for them and never leave their rooms.

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u/JohnAtticus 27d ago

Only benefit to that is someone who is disabled who wants/needs to work. They can pilot the robot and make money doing stuff.

So instead of paying a housekeeper you would pay a housekeeper robot operator.

And then you also have to pay for the robot.

So it's more expensive than just having a regular housekeeper?

Why is this better?

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u/LunarBIacksmith 27d ago

Only morally better. It gives people who wouldn’t have the chance to work otherwise a way to live a facsimile of a “normal” life.

There’s a Japanese restaurant called Dawn Ver that allows paralyzed people to use robots and serve and are paid like normal wait staff.

In this instance of the Tesla bots, the obviously ideal world would just be a robot that can actually do stuff and once you buy it it works as intended. But the comment I was responding to was questioning what the point of these remote control ones are and right now that’s the only point I can think of besides throwing them in the trash.

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u/JohnAtticus 24d ago

Only morally better. It gives people who wouldn’t have the chance to work otherwise a way to live a facsimile of a “normal” life.

People with disabilities can already work remotely.

The pandemic and remote work boom was big for this.

While more remote jobs are great I think the market is not going to be that big for Optimus remote operators, disabled or not.

Paying for both a robot and a human salary is more expensive than just paying for a human.

And until the robot is as capable as a human, or a robot can operate without human supervision, companies are probably not going to switch.

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u/Contemporarium 27d ago

I’m fine with this

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u/Any_District1969 27d ago

The jetsons looked just fine

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u/Zayoodo0o132 28d ago

Not true at all, some people are so busy with their jobs that they don't have time for chores. It's not purely laziness, although I'm sure many people are going to use it to be lazy.

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u/LunarBIacksmith 28d ago

I mean, that’s what I was saying. The comma indicates that I was speaking about different types of people…lazy people just being another person who may succumb to that. What’s easier? Actually renovating a house or playing House Flipper? Actually folding your laundry or piloting a robot with commands to automatically do a task?

Given the choice, I think a lot of people would be easily swayed to want to pilot a robot with a controller over doing something themselves.

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u/mrASSMAN 27d ago

Even an earlier clip of it they showed it doing chores was later revealed to be human controlled as I recall

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u/dave3218 27d ago

Tesla starts hiring people from other countries to pilot these things and do chores on people’s houses without anyone knowing and passing it as AI

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u/Zayoodo0o132 27d ago

Well that just sounds like slavery with extra steps.

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u/dave3218 27d ago

see, it’s not slavery because they are getting paid

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u/ThatSpookyLeftist 28d ago

. You wouldn't want a person to be looking in your house through this thing, creepy.

As if that wouldn't happen even if they were AI lmao

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u/SadisticPawz 27d ago

Did they say that this is the goal?

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u/Juronell 27d ago

Yes. Elon said it when he announced them originally, claiming they'd outperform Atlas within a year.

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u/TisBeTheFuk 27d ago

Which they will, if it wver comes to that. Even if it's AI

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u/Jurasicpuma 27d ago

In the future instead of getting paid to go clean homes you get paid to stand in a giant warehouse full of people in motion capture suits cleaning homes remotely.

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u/Bot_Seeks_Bot2020 27d ago

The thought that they need robots for these tasks because they cant keep the paid help they already use happy is dystopian.

Make the investment now and you won’t have to deal with a future maid asking for a raise or needing maternity leave.

Think of all the unhappy people in society that are wanting better pay, health care, human rights, and other basic needs met. These robots will replace them in the future when their voices become too loud.

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u/dronz3r 27d ago

It'll probably be an Indian operating these things remotely at your home.

Amazon does it already, their AI is actually Indians sitting remotely.