Adam P. Knave: Given how much "AI" is just "ppl in another country doing the work and pretending a computer did it" I fully expect to find out that the "auto driving" tesla thing is some folks in a diff country, with joysticks, playing a video game, basically.

Given how much "AI" is just "ppl in another country doing the work and pretending a computer did it" I fully expect to find out that the "auto driving" tesla thing is some folks in a diff country, with joysticks, playing a video game, basically.

Too funny and probably the eventual truth.

Look, so what if it's a digital rickshaw paying sub-poverty wages and unfortunately killing people!!

I bet there’s a potential murder mystery there. Guy works in remote driving. Falls in love with a client. Gets jealous kills them. BUT society does not yet know that cars aren’t really AI. Big company covers up this killer (serial killer?) by inadvertently sticking to its AI mission statement.

Stalker. Kills all their lovers.

Some tech at the company notices all the accident victims fit a profile - maybe has to be a sort of whistleblower?

How many coverups? How many others knew?! And the data trail! Corrupted servers and corrupted platters and corrupted souls!

Shhh!

This is literally a thing they did in the Captain Lazerhawk series

IIRC I read this week that one "driverless taxi" has one and a half people working remotely on every car they have on the road.

Of course. *sigh*

I imagined a whole black mirror episode like this that would have been a rare fun one

oh most definitely

Or conversely, in the areas that are trying so hard to loosen restrictions on child labor, could be a kid in the trunk doing the driving. lol

Never in the trunk, you don't want folks to know.

true. 😆

I'm suddenly reminded of Ben Browder's cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy II

I'd frankly feel more safe in one of those.

There definitely was one of those driverless car places on the news in the last few years that was bragging about having one person per multitude of cars ready to take over with a video game wheel controller if something went wrong.

Of course. I mean the whole time, though, but yeah, ugh.

Every piece of technology is quickly becoming "What if _____ but stupid and even worse?"

For a few decades now.

If this was done correctly it could be another income source for disabled people working from home. It would need to be tightly regulated and have very good pay, but it could be done.

Sure. And except for "tightly regulated" and "good pay" it could happen here.

Those are always the sticking points. It makes me sick that the right-wingers have demonized the things protecting and helping us for their own personal profit.

That one scene in Captain Laserhawk turned out to be a documentary lol

So that movie where Robin Williams is a toymaker?

Toys. But also a ton of other movies. But also mechanical turks. But also this is already happening with stuff.

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