Thousands of car crashes a day > not a news
A Waymo crashed > national news
Humans making shitty pizza is not a news. But robots burning a pizza is a news. It'll get better.
If humans were making shitty pizza on average, these companies wouldn't be pouring in their dollars trying to imitate it.
>I've had my fair share of shitty human made pizza so this kind of sounds like the autonomous taxi news cycle to me
I think you need to check the definition of 'news'. Something that happens everyday isn't 'news'.
I don't know about that. Shitty pizza sells very well. Nobody frequents fast-food pizza chains because of the quality of their pies...
I’ve heard they’re hurting nowadays because many of them outsourced delivery to Uber Eats/Doordash and are so fucking expensive now, you may as well go to a nicer pizza place.
No way is a person doing it for mass production.
apparently they are "hand stretched" but I presume much of the other processes are automated in a factory. (prob not AI robots). A lot is about the quality of the ingredients. Those are wood fired and not frozen.
My dream is a free of cost at the point of service Uber pool like service that takes you door to door in one of those Ford transit vans.
Over time, you learn patterns and put in mass public transit and the door to door vans then become door --> van --> public transit --> van --> door
At least that's my dream for the US where we are spread apart like this
Instead it's a little battery-powered multi-passenger buggy, covered with ads and limited to downtown.
>door --> van --> public transit --> van --> door
Still works like this but once you take the train or bus outside of downtown, then you're back on your own for the "last miles" except for a few other non-contiguous neighborhoods where they are beginning to add additional cells of this limited-area connector service.
This has been willingly subsidized by the major businesses in each service area, so it is free to use on its own, once you get onto the regular public transit though, then normal fares apply there.
There's no reason it won't improve because we know that there is actually a world in which amazing pizzas exist.
Teleporters seems a rather random comparison for the sibling reply
Maybe it doesn’t really matter, Marinara is pretty easy to make, 5 ingredients in an oven. Can we improve upen speed, like they say on the article? Up to a point yes, but there’s a bottleneck, the dough itself. It takes certain amount of time to make it into a oval shape, you can’t go too fast, since you break it. And then it has to be in the oven a certain amount of time, no matter what. That has nothing to do with automation, but the physical facts of the matter itself.
Now you have an average pizza that cost a fortune to make, but we accomplished it slightly faster than $10/h pizza chef. You see why those startups all fold?
That's a truly dialled in experience based on many iterations and fine control of input factors.
That's the parallel I'm envisaging.
Robo pizza doesn't need to mean 30 second pizza.
Just a perfect pizza at the end of the process with no humans involved.
I see that as infinitely achievable.
This type of automation is inherently selfish and should be discouraged, im glad he lost 200k, that 200k could have been used to help employee a few college students who would go onto provide way more value to their community than a robot ever would.
Honestly if you see a company with robots like this, they hate their communities and are inherently selfish and greedy. Do not support them.