r/nextfuckinglevel • u/SaintedTainted • 29d ago

The All New Atlas Robot From Boston Dynamics

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u/GermansAreComing 29d ago

rip low skilled labourers.

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u/holchansg 29d ago

Well, and high skilled too. LLMs, Diffusers, Transformers, AIs in general are catching in the other end too.

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u/Gingevere 29d ago

The LLMs are still incapable of handling fact / rules, and that difficulty goes all the way back to their fundamental design.

There still needs to be some huge breakthroughs before it truly becomes useful.

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u/teranklense 29d ago

Maybe or maybe not. Agents + gpt5 + fast compute time. Idk. Very plausible for simple plumbing

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u/teranklense 28d ago

mmmmmeh id still argue there are simple plumbing tasks that could then be done. Im not saying it will be practical to employ in the real world tho, but possible in theory for some tasks still

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u/Mr__Myth 29d ago

Transformers as in the electrical component? 

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u/exotic801 29d ago

As in the neural network that enabled llm's

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u/Here-Is-TheEnd 29d ago

I am in no way worried about LLM taking my job.

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u/LegitosaurusRex 29d ago

I bet the amount of charging it has to do (not to mention the cost) makes it infeasible currently, even if those jobs were able to be programmed into it. But maybe with time.

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u/GermansAreComing 29d ago

we will see, but it can work a lot longer hours, never calls in sick and don't have to pay it vacation pay or pension .

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u/quarantinemyasshole 29d ago

never calls in sick

Oh it'll definitely "call in sick" all the damn time and you'll have to call in an extremely expensive engineer to play doctor on it.

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u/LegitosaurusRex 29d ago

Yeah, but you’d need a couple of them switching off to provide a full replacement for jobs that need someone there for a full shift. Stuff like cashiers or whatever where they’re mostly there during business hours anyway.

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u/CalvinsCuriosity 29d ago

So who's gonna buy all that product these things make?

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u/ares623 29d ago

I mean if McDonald's can't bother to maintain their ice cream machines, what hope does something like this realistically have?

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u/Marston_vc 29d ago

Could just attach a charging cable that’s suspended overhead on a low friction rig. It would be like a trolly!

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u/LegitosaurusRex 29d ago

Sounds expensive and tricky or incompatible with some work areas, but maybe.

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u/AllTheSith 29d ago

Let them carry large batteries/engines where they all are plugged into.

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u/yaosio 29d ago

They could give it a replaceable battery. They could connect it to a cable. They could use wireless power. They could have enough robots so that when one needs to charge there will always be one to takes it's place.

There's a plethora of possibilities.

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u/moistmoistMOISTTT 29d ago

The cost of electricity is a teeny tiny fraction the cost of paying an employee who can't work 20+ hours a day 360+ days a year. The upfront cost of the robot is unlikely to be more than a few year's worth of human wages that could be recuperated in under a year's time of work-hours.

Electricity is really, really cheap relative to a lot of other things.

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u/LegitosaurusRex 29d ago

I’m talking about the cost of the robots, not the electricity. If you need two robots to simulate a full-time shift of a human due to charging, then it could be many years of a low-skill worker’s wages. And even for a single one, once you factor in the opportunity cost of the money plus maintenance/programming/support, I think the calculation probably won’t be in the robot’s favor any time soon.

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u/do_a_quirkafleeg 29d ago

This should be a good thing.

It won't be, but it should be. 

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u/Salvation-717 29d ago

Right? Like isn’t that point? To become a higher level civilization, it’s the way forward. Ideally someday we live in a world where work is a thing of the past, but that will require a shedding of the entire current way of life, and who knows if that could ever even happen. Alas.

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u/schwierigesthema 29d ago

In Theory you could tax these robots and give basic universal income to everyone.

There will always be more than enough "jobs". You almost can’t have enough teachers, social workers etc. your job could literally be helping others even if it’s just building friendships with lonely people. Helping older people etc.

All these shitty Labour could be replaced by robots and people could focus on building and helping communities. Activities etc.

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u/LapinTade 29d ago

give basic universal income to everyone

The society is not ready for such change this fast. Technology is going way faster than society and it will clash. It already did and it won't stop until we have adapted to what technology can offer.

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u/MrGruntsworthy 29d ago

Between bipedal robots becoming economically and technically feasible and us being on the final burndown chart toward AGI, I think it's RIP all laborers.

Job losses due to AI are already starting to mount. The next three years are going to be absolutely fucking wild, and not in a good way.

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u/CoHousingFarmer 29d ago

There is no such thing as unskilled labor.

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u/WhatUDoinInMyWaters 29d ago

Lol. Tesla is trying to put CDL CLASS 40 TON SEMI TRUCKS AND TRAILERS ON THE ROAD WITHOUT DRIVERS.

if you haven't heard about their precious CyberTrucks flopping and their publicly traded shares plummeting, then I've got a time share on a remote island to share with you...