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Factory workers wearing devices that record their movements

Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2026 1:09 pm
by digdeeper
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=KtYEqV5JIEI

Likely for the purpose of training a robot according to the data, soon.

"Earning a living" can't survive for too long at this point. But what after? Can our ideas advance before all those people get fired (and die)? Or will we stick to the current systems until the world is full of rotting corpses? Knowing what I know about the human, I bet it's going to be the latter.

Re: Factory workers wearing devices that record their movements

Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2026 2:36 pm
by qualia
digdeeper wrote: Tue Apr 14, 2026 1:09 pm Likely for the purpose of training a robot according to the data, soon.
Is it? Or is it just factory owners spying on their slaves? This seems to be some kind of textile manufacturing which could be automated with decades long robot tech without any AI. The reason these places still use (I think "use" is an appropriate term here) human slaves instead of robots is because it's cheaper for them.

Re: Factory workers wearing devices that record their movements

Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2026 3:10 am
by digdeeper
qualia wrote: Tue Apr 14, 2026 2:36 pm
digdeeper wrote: Tue Apr 14, 2026 1:09 pm Likely for the purpose of training a robot according to the data, soon.
Is it? Or is it just factory owners spying on their slaves? This seems to be some kind of textile manufacturing which could be automated with decades long robot tech without any AI. The reason these places still use (I think "use" is an appropriate term here) human slaves instead of robots is because it's cheaper for them.
But then why not just use a regular CCTV setup? Why is the hand movement data so useful?

Re: Factory workers wearing devices that record their movements

Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2026 11:23 am
by qualia
I dont know, perhaps for even greater control? As in, no blindspots, no opportunity to do anything prohibited discreetly? Although admittedly this would seem like extreme overkill even in modern capitalism, so it might be something else but I just dont see the point in doing all of this just to create a robot which would automate tasks that have already been completely automated by less complex robots for decades.

Re: Factory workers wearing devices that record their movements

Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2026 2:23 pm
by digdeeper
Maybe you're right after all. I guess additional info will come out at some point.

Big media outlets do appear to be repeating this idea though. However, proof doesn't seem to be there. So let's just wait.

Re: Factory workers wearing devices that record their movements

Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2026 5:12 pm
by LoadingXML
Text in the video translate to "Close monitoring of every movement with it, workers are training artificial intelligence"

But in reality as a future engineer, this is far from being logical thing to do.

Mass production machines already exist and can be developed, training AI to do complex movements with robots, is unprofitable and dumb.

Re: Factory workers wearing devices that record their movements

Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2026 5:42 pm
by digdeeper
Wow. So it's basically confirmed.

But are we even sure of everything the workers are doing? We've only seen 30 seconds of video, maybe it's more complicated than it seems.

Re: Factory workers wearing devices that record their movements

Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2026 7:18 pm
by qualia
LoadingXML wrote: Wed Apr 15, 2026 5:12 pm Text in the video translate to "Close monitoring of every movement with it, workers are training artificial intelligence"

But in reality as a future engineer, this is far from being logical thing to do.

Mass production machines already exist and can be developed, training AI to do complex movements with robots, is unprofitable and dumb.
Thanks for the translation. I suppose this might be just a company ran by retards who want to jump onto the AI bandwagon

Re: Factory workers wearing devices that record their movements

Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2026 5:22 am
by digdeeper
Meta now recording employee activities on their computers with the stated aim of training AI:
By turning the daily activity of tens of thousands of employees into training data, Meta hopes to sharpen its internal AI agents so they can eventually perform end‑to‑end tasks on behalf of workers, per Reuters.