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Watch: Chinese company's new humanoid robot moves so smoothly, they had to cut it open to prove a person wasn't hiding inside (www.livescience.com)

submitted 3 months ago by Dadifer@lemmy.world to c/futurology@futurology.today

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[–] Dojan@pawb.social 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

There are people with prosthetic legs. Was expecting the chest to be cut open but they just did a leg. That proves nothing.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Here's some video of one moving around with no skin whatsoever.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that this is an actual robot?

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago

A healthy amount of skeptism is good for people. You can't just go along everything being take at face value.

But also there are people who'll down vote content just because the content is in foreign language, people or accent.

And also there are people who think videos that existed before the AI could generate a face, are somehow AI now.

I don't know where I'm going with this. just saying internet is fucking weird and people here are even weirder. Like me

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Because all of these robot tech demos tend to be very misleading

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

All of them? Hardly. This very demo is a counterexample.

I suspect it's more that lots of people don't want these to be actual robots.

[–] evenglow@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Most people don't understand these demos. So instead of saying that they say misleading instead.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Tend to = all of them to you?

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Because all of these robot tech demos tend to be very misleading

Emphasis added.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social -1 points 3 months ago

Yes, of the set that is all robot tech demos to a crowd, the vast majority are misleading. They tend to be misleading

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Why is it so hard for people to believe that this is an actual robot?

Because we live in an age of tech-bro grifting. The great grifter Musk had some person in a skin suit pretending to be a robot. We have all these “AI” companies selling air castles.

Anyone who isn’t skeptical is gullible.

Why would it be real? The video you’ve sent is a puppet on a string, suspended from the roof.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 4 points 3 months ago

It's clearly not suspended from that cable. You can clearly see how much slack there is in it. This is just another example of striving to find some excuse not to believe that it's real, no matter how much of a stretch it takes to get to that conclusion.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 3 points 3 months ago

The most convincing part for me was how clearly unprepared to be on stage the tech with the scissors was