Humans Need Not Apply

[Rob Lister]

Machines ain't got much on these fucks

[Witness]

Machines ain't got much on these fucks

I see you're a friend of the proletariat.

[gnome]

Will women give up their dildos though?

Love that sentence!

Some are working on it:



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[Rob Lister]

Machines ain't got much on these fucks

I see you're a friend of the proletariat.

as long as they do their fucking job, sure.

[Abdul Alhazred]

[Witness]

[Witness]

Humans fight back:

Boeing abandons its failed fuselage robots on the 777X, handing the job back to machinists



After enduring a manufacturing mess that spanned six years and cost millions of dollars as it implemented a large-scale robotic system for automated assembly of the 777 fuselage, Boeing has abandoned the robots and will go back to relying more on its human machinists.

Boeing said Wednesday it is adopting a different approach that “has proven more reliable, requiring less work by hand and less rework, than what the robots were capable of.”

The robotic system entailed holding the large curved metal panels that make up the 777 fuselage sections right-side up in a cradle as the moving robots stitched the panels together, drilling holes and adding tens of thousands of fasteners.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/b ... achinists/

[Abdul Alhazred]

What you see here is one group of workers showing solidarity with another group of workers by refusing to be scabs.

[Witness]

Has Marx been translated to Fortran?

[Abdul Alhazred]

Has Marx been translated to Fortran?

No.

But I bet Walter Reuther has.

[Abdul Alhazred]

OK. This story isn't about sexbots as such, but it might be relevant to future developments.

Holograms you can 'feel'
Space Daily

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Now scientists in Britain say they can make even more realistic 3D versions -- a butterfly, a globe, an emoji -- which can be seen with the naked eye, heard and even felt without the need for any virtual reality systems.

Writing in the journal Nature, a team at the University of Sussex in southern England, said technology currently in use can create 3D images but they are slow, short-lived and "most importantly, rely on operating principles that cannot produce tactile and auditive content as well".

To fill in the picture, so to speak, the team created a prototype called Multimodal Acoustic Trap Display (MATD) which "can simultaneously deliver visual, auditory and tactile content".

This uses what is known as "acoustophoresis" -- sound waves that move and manipulate an object, in this case particles -- to form an image in a small box containing arrays of very small speakers.

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