Apple’s next nebulous idea: smart home robots - eviltoast
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    5 months ago

    They can call it the AppleJack, and the inevitable sex toy that gets made out of it will be dubbed the AppleJackOff.

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      5 months ago

      I guess the farm really isn’t bringing in the money anymore.

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      For those who don’t get it, her name is Apple Jack and she works on an apple farm

  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 months ago

    If I had a robot, I would want it to stay securely bolted to the shop floor. I certainly wouldn’t buy one from any big tech company.

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      5 months ago

      I want one that can do annoying manual labor tasks. ‘Remove all the paint from the concrete porch’ would be a nice command.

      Though, with how well AIs are going lately, I could see it deciding to destroy the front door instead if I were to entrust it with a power tool.

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        5 months ago

        One can design a visual language in which such a robot would present to the user what exactly it’s going to do.

        Then a user can say a command, and the resulting action would be displayed, waiting for confirmation by, say, pressing a button.

  • rottingleaf@lemmy.zip
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    5 months ago

    “Door into Summer” comes to mind.

    That means no. Until they start selling useful robots with a few simple MCs inside and sufficient documentation. No “AI”, no telemetry, no nice GUI, nothing like that.