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[–] 9 points 6 days ago

Instead, labor and computing power are being diverted toward a singular “frontier-model effort” led by Pieter Abbeel, director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab whose robotics company Covariant was hoovered up by Amazon in 2024. At the time Abbeel joined the tech giant, Covariant’s founders were working on AI models for robots, which lines up pretty well with Amazon’s push to automate everything it possibly can.

I’m wondering how long it will be until corporations will have their own private robot security forces to suppress any remaining unionizing employees and terrorize protesters. 😬

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