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wjfox wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2024 10:50 am

Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped.

WTF.

Real-life automation in practice. (>ლ)

Five good artists I've been following stopped uploading anything because of AI and because of theft. Nothing AI-related I've been counting on for 15-20 years haven't come true yet. Things I didn't want have come true. Stupid sh*t is being done all the time. I've also unfollowed multiple artists who ...

There may be 1 billion bipedal and quadrupedal robots by 2050. 10 billion by 2068. Also, by 2055 all vehicles will be 100% self-driving, with human only providing the destination. By 2060 all airplanes, ships, buses and trains will be 100% autonomous and automatic. By 2090 internal combustion engine...

What really matters in my opinion: lowest common denominator hardware (Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series S, i3-12100F, Ryzen 5500, RX 6600, RTX 3050 6GB) affordability of decent and improving hardware how cheap, good and convenient are software tools available for game creators what is the overall atmos...

How heavy or big could ships sailing through oceans get? Certainly not infinitely heavy and large. You can't possibly exponentially increase the size of ocean-going ships in a practical way after a certain point, especially exponentially. I'm not sure what that exact point is, but I guess that pract...

It's impossible for everything or anything to improve exponentially forever, but there is a lot of exponential improvement, change and growth in front of us. I think that quality of stuff will one day reach a maximum (in a different year for different kinds of things, aspects and features), but the ...

I made a long post, but I changed my mind (again).

To be honest, I dunno, I don't know the truth. It's beyond me to accurately ascertain or confirm. I'm not qualified for this.

Maybe this list can be helpful in comparing performance for GPUs: https://benchmarks.ul.com/compare/best-gpus

Key findings: 🔹 Real wages of low-wage workers grew 12.1% between 2019 and 2023. Wage growth among low- and middle-wage workers over the pandemic business cycle has outpaced not only higher wage groups over the same period, but also its own growth compared to the prior four business cycles. 🔹 Betwe...

The answer is not fearing automation , but embracing and welcoming automation! Automation can potentially free us all (at least the 99,9% of us who are not on the top!) from drudgery, time-wasting, doing what we don't want or like, and overall misery, for the most part at least. Not in 1000 years, b...

For me, it seems like new smartphones have been getting smaller and smaller upgrades as years go by (higher and higher prices at the same time). I had fully expected AR AI glasses fully replacing smartphones in the 2020s and even more impressive tech coming in the 2030s, but I was too optimistic as ...