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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

They really lost the plot at this point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I always thought Apple should make appliances. I say let them try.

[–] Murdoc 3 points 5 months ago

Apple making robots, what could go wrong? (Looks up phone number for Tom Selleck)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

All of those robots are easily defeated by a flight of stairs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The drone ones can probably handle it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, don't mind the flying drones using LLM snapshots to navigate and identify obstacles, like random people.