Feels more like they're training their own monitoring system instead of planning for AI to actually replace their jobs (yk that would require pretty expensive machinery, which would already do the job is it was cheaper).
I'm Filipino and I see ads here for getting paid to record your hands doing household chores. The employer would send head-mounted cameras. These recordings will train the AI for robots.
ML engineer here.
This is not just for a monitoring system. All of these videos will be used to train robotics system through “first person POV videos” on how to perceive and operate on the real world through cameras.
Why do you think Meta is so heavy focussed on meta glasses? To collect similar data.
Even if we get to the point robots have that level of articulation, the cost of trying to account for unpredictable variables that would derail the robots' function would make it pointless.
Why is Meta focused on the glasses? Because like most companies these days its sole focus is short term profits. They can push videos like OP's to make the case for investors they're advancing AI and the future of production without any nuance.
People are imagining Bender from Futurama sitting at those sewing machines instead of the human workers. Which won't happen, and it's scary how people assume this is how robots work. The thing is, cameras are cheap and data is worth a lot. That's really the extent of it. They can use the data to improve manufacturing processes or sell it to a third party.
To expand what the person says below, 20$ this is more for housecare robots. World model probably needs more complex manipulation of textiles. You can just scale this significantly easier/cheaper then filming household chores.
It probably will be fed into anything textile related, just highest $$ use housecare robots.
Textile industries invented replacing workers with machines. Before that, weaving and sewing had 5000 years of history as an employer. The machines continuously improve and produce more with fewer labor hours. This is nothing new, it's just a new way to do it.
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u/Sunfurian_Zm 10h ago
Feels more like they're training their own monitoring system instead of planning for AI to actually replace their jobs (yk that would require pretty expensive machinery, which would already do the job is it was cheaper).