A nightmare
Most of my life, I’ve had people scrutinizing me and believing my emotions to be inauthentic because I didn’t contort my face in the precise manner they expect of people feeling a particular emotion.
Given that AI is well documented to reproduce existing biases found in the training data, I’m betting that this is extra assholish to autistic people.
Urelated to the original post, but my old man is autistic (undiagnosed, but we’re all pretty sure), and I find the notion that his emotions are not facially conveyed quite heartening.
He seldom smiles - although when he does it’s genuine. I think we as a family have sometimes made the mistake of projecting emotion onto his often expressionless face, and assuming negative ones.
It’s easy to conclude that he’s indifferent or bored, when he’s maybe just not naturally able to convey what he’s feeling through expression, which I hadn’t really considered.
Botox will produce unteresting results. I’m definitely getting some if I ever go back to the office. Hopefully, people will not see me scowl afterwards.
On the other hand, I want this app so I can just read what people are trying to say with subtle facial expressions. Ah yes, head tilted down with left eyebrow raised: they want me to move aside!
jeff bezos wet dream
Damn, you’d think that with such advanced technology, they could just automate that job and have the workers move to doing something that isn’t a dehumanizing slog.
Humans are disposable, robots are expensive and require more expensive humans to maintain.
Humans are very expensive. They are just a highly subsidized resource for capital to exploit.
I hate to tell you this but that’s not how it works. The people who used to paint cars as they come off the production line aren’t creating interesting patterns for automation to paint on a car. There are just no production car painters anymore. Automating a job away doesn’t free the human up to actualize their life goals, it eliminates their income and makes their lives more precarious.
Automating a job away doesn’t free the human up to actualize their life goals, it eliminates their income and makes their lives more precarious.
Under capitalism
The system we currently have yes.
This. Automation doesn’t improve the lives of the workers. It improves the wealth of the owners.
Only under a capitalist economy.
Seize the means etc.
No mention of the basic yet?
Camera + software = cheap;
Robot (hardware) = expensive
Robot cost money for maintenance, fuel, and upgrades. Humans take care of all of that themselves and can be made to work harder (upgrade performance) without expensive software, just cheap abuse.
Robots are expensive to buy, program, and set up. Energy cost and maintenance is cheap.
Still more expensive than a human counterpart, which is the point.
Suffering is the point.
Data recorded for training
don’t worry, you’re looking at the last phase before robots do it all
I will literally rather kill myself. They can have their dystopia!
Take them out with you
Not how it works once the robot police is deployed.
We can’t let it get to that point.
It’s more likely that AI will become a middle, or upper manager than a floor worker.
Humans are still very cheap to work with, especially if you gut worker protections
monitoring facial expressions
The AI issued reprimands will continue until you smile more.
And of course it’s never to adjust their policies so that every employee feels better and does better, it’s just to find out how to bitch at literally everyone for being human.
“it’s just analysis. We won’t use it to discipline.”
Before we get robots taking over all our jobs we’ll have AI detection algorithms to make sure we work like robots.
Our AI behavioural analysis agent detected a negative attitude in your comments. Please report to room 101 for attitude adjustment.
which often overcorrects or makes too many mistakes.
Why robotize when you can make the employees into robots! Easier to replace
I hate it
I would purposely work extra hard while making an orgasm face just to mess with the algorithm.
Wear a mask of your own face looking super attentive and sleep at your machine
Instructions unclear, fleshlights now mounted under desk.
Even without recording every move the amount of monitoring in factories can be quite substantial. I’ve seen a demo of an AI application of a German car manufacturer where a number of specialized knowledge bots (basically LLMs with specialized RAG for different databases) started from a car with a problem and then correlated the car serial with the production facility, the date, the shift working at the time of production of the car and the part and then some historical data and basically gave the result “nightshift crew 6 made a mistake and their quality often isn’t as good as the other crews” I’m pretty sure if Germany wouldn’t have such a focus on personal data privacy the system could’ve said who exactly is at fault.
Also even without AI some jobs just have insane monitoring, I believe call centers are some of the worst.
The amount of traceability in auto plants regarding what was put onto a vehicle would surprise a lot of folks. The capability to do this greatly predates AI and I’m not really sure what AI would add in the example you cited. Nearly any OE part with a barcode can be tied back to the vehicle it was originally installed on, what shift installed it, which other vehicles have a similar lot of parts, etc. Correlating this information with other basic record keeping, like which station installs the part and who was working at that time, makes it very easy to unearth trends. Plants have quality incentives, so there’s a strong motivation to identify areas for improvement.
In addition to quality, it turns out the small additional cost of all this data capture and storage quickly pays for itself in the case of a spill. Being able to say “this specific set of vehicles” can save a ton of money. That’s part of the reason why very small and targeted recalls have been becoming more common.
You’re absolutely right and I’m aware that the traceability was already a given. The collected data also was already there and has been for years.
The AI in this case added basically a simple “human language” interface and some automation. The multi agent approach was basically a “simple” way to integrate multiple systems. You could’ve done the same before but with more manual steps or fully automated but then more rigid and less flexible. E.g. with the AI system you could ask follow up questions or add other bots to the conversation etc.
Ah, I see. It’s very true that a lot of plants have… older software setups that likely require a bit more of a human touch than should be necessary. I don’t work in a plant, but that’s basically been my career arc - “the poor humans have to hop between how many disconnected systems to accomplish what now? Let’s write some better software to address that.”
Using AI as a replacement to human glue seems reasonable if you have decent data to traverse. The “data” at my employer is often bespoke to each system, which results in a lot of gray matter mapping names and attributes across systems. Our IT org is working on rolling out glean, but so far it’s basically a better internal search than offering real insights.
Quite interesting. I worked as a software engineer in different areas but not in data sciences. The demo I described was part of a bigger effort to bring visibility to AI related use cases. This one was a relatively good fit in my opinion, as long the data is mostly handled outside of the LLMs and they just “translate” to human language and glue things together. Otherwise I’d fear hallucinations and data not fitting into the context window.
amazon does this, even at thier smaller prime warehouses, they will know the moment you accidentally forgot to check for 1 moldy item.
Worker: jokes on you, I just had botox
If you can afford botox, we’re paying you too much. Future wages will be decreased.
At a certain point the proletariat needs to say enough is enough and demand a change to working conditions.
It just won’t happen. Humans will face the worst fate possible. I just hope no one reconstructs my charred remains for Roko to torture.
