#programming task

[joyandella-123]

Our robo-relationships start before we even install them

If you would have asked the child version of me what the most important job of a robot, I would not have hesitated. Not for a second! All my friends knew the answer too. This seemed so obvious: the most important job of a robot is to sense upcoming peril and flail its arms, yelling, “Danger, danger!” or even tagging someone’s name on the end instead of another “Danger!” Example: “Danger, Rob Williamson!”

Actually, many decades later, we know that most robots can’t really anticipate a thing. They’re not supposed to. The first industrial robots came out somewhere around 1960 and they could do one thing, whatever that thing was (the very first robot stacked iron castings and it was strong but not so intelligent).

Many robots are the same today but what saves their jobs is that they are much more flexible today. Not only are they versatile, it’s easy to keep them that way because the software that controls them is really versatile, and can partially write itself. This really has nothing to do with the robot, though—it has everything to do with the software.

Robots have been around since 1770, when a device called The Mechanical Turk would play chess against opponents and win just about every time. It turned out there was a chess master hiding in the chess desk, moving levers to reposition the chess pieces. A scam! It wasn’t a robot (or as it was billed, an “automaton”) at all.

Real robots were put to work immediately, that’s what they do best. But our relationships with them must start before the work starts. Even the most advanced cobots need us to show them their universe, where they might hit something or someone. Then we need to either train them with the motion we expect, or program their movements. At least the programming task has become much more code-slinger friendly, as noted above.

It is entirely possible that we will have to change the actions of the people that the robot or cobot will be near, work with, or work on something in team fashion, interactively. They will have to be careful in the vicinity of these helpmates, unless of course these robots come with sensors and software that tell it to slow down when a human nears, and stop when a human touches. The point is, the robots will have to act differently and so will we. In the meantime, those robots are doing the dull, dirty and dangerous work that we have been looking to offload for years.

So long as we don’t look to the typical manufacturing robot to anticipate things and change its behavior accordingly, I think we’ll be fine. However, we must admit to, and plan for, an “onboarding” process for our automated friends.

[buglaur]

for a girl whose never built anything from scratch before i'd call this a triumph

[donutdrawsthings]

I've been hit by a severe case of the Dan VS hyperfixation and I'm afraid it's fatal

[musewrangler]

Someone yank this story out of my head, please and thank you.

[smiggles]

Left handed people

What are all the things that make life different and/or dangerous for you because of your handedness

[clegfly]

I’ve… I’ve been thinking lately…

[mishmash-webster]

fuck anyone who uses genai in any way for which they claim there was ‘no other option’ but ESPECIALLY ai voices. you better get out your voice clips and start ytp sentence splicing like god intended

[rowan-ashtree]

man. the wild robot hits different when you've read the murderbot diaries.

[sockafterdark]

i really think it would help reduce my stress levels if someone would just go elbow deep in my wires and fix them up. adjust them to make sure they're all in the right spot, maybe yank em or tease my ports while you're in there. just routine maintenance >_<

actually maybe force a reboot too. open up my cpu and dust it off? do whatever you want to me while i'm shut down and maybe just test my sensors once i'm back online to make sure everything's working right

[prozac]

Well everyone... My laptops fucked for good

[lynxfrost13]

Would you guys still love me if I said that the most likely end for Schrott, Hollenhund, Honig, Essig, and everyone else on the VDF-5 would be getting blown to bits in space by the Imperial blockade finally. Hypothetically if that happened of course.

[sangsaracycling]

im not trying to sound like a luddite or anything but any time someone talks about using AI / chatGPT for a work/school task its like. you have teachers you have mentors you have friends you have other students you have colleagues and so on. "chat can proofread my work for me" so can another person with a fresh set of eyes. "chat can give me ideas for my essay" so can another person with their unique perspective on the subject. "chat can find me good articles to read" ask your prof . "chat wrote my paper for me" thank you for speaking the quiet part out loud stop killing the ghostwriting industry please

[communistkenobi]

there are valid reasons to have an antagonistic relationship to academic scholarship, but those reasons are overwhelmingly not raised in graduate classrooms, where students instead bitch about theory in general, jargon in general, making them sound ultimately like conservatives, who view any attempt to systematically account for social phenomena as a form of useless intellectual degeneracy

[silusvesuius]

this tree from my new drawing looking goated afffffff 👑👑

[failgirl-coven]

got a whole ass vibe going rn

putting the fleki background under the cut for my fellow fleki freaks :)

[yaoi-hate-machine]

one of my worst autism afflictions is that unless you specifically say that you want to be friends with me, i will assume that you are merely tolerating my existence with contempt