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points by toxik 3 days ago | 0 comments
I think autonomous mowers are more a tech problem. Just like the vacuum cleaners, they're only successful in the case of literally zero eventualities. Rake left out in the grass? Ope, guess you need a new mower blade. Dog poop or slick of jam on the floor? Congratulations, literal Picasso has been made for you. On the floor.

Ranting on, even dishwasher machines are like this. You have to stack and unstack, easily the most labor intensive part of the job, and you have to do it just right. Spatula jams the upper spray arm spindle? Sorry, best I can do is literally baked on residues that will NOT come off next cycle.

I'm not sure what point I was making but I'm sure this connects to shoddy LLM software in some way.

[–] pixl97 3 days ago
With things like tractors there is more financial leeway in providing fast image recognition to avoid problems.

With lawnmowers having a full agi nearly human level system is needed, but way too expensive/complicated for a device that does one thing every two weeks.

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