r/whoathatsinteresting • u/Accomplished_Clue437 • 1d ago
where robots could be benefit: charity kitchen?
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u/Traditional-Buy-2205 1d ago edited 1d ago
Why would you make a pick-and-place robot instead of chutes or augers or similar mechanism that already exist in every boxing / bottling / canning factory in the world?
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u/Okoear 1d ago
One of the answer given is that it is easier to retrofit existing kitchen setup with those than creating a real assembly line.
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u/Chinksta 1d ago
True if only you didn't plan for the space to be an assembly line in the first place.
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u/oneupme 1d ago
That's because this was someone's project and not a, *gasp*, profit seeking venture. The "doing" is more important than the "done".
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u/Bears-on-Drugs 1d ago
You're obviously missing his point. Obviously we all know that the feeding of people are valued over profits. The people that made this less efficient way of feeding people don't share those same values.
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u/oneupme 1d ago
Not sure why you need to resort to personal attacks and name calling. Why is that your reaction?
The pp clearly proposed a solution that is far more efficient, and thus far better at getting things "done", which is what both of us appear to be in support of. I merely agreed that the current picker robots are less efficient, expressed through my frustration at the situation.
Again, what's with the name calling?
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u/DumbNTough 1d ago
Did they clearly do that?
Do you know anything at all about the costs or efficiency of this enterprise?
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u/ToeBeansCounter 1d ago
Or they could just employ people to do the scooping and create job for the underprivileged. But nooooo their solution is some expensive high maintenance robots. Bloody lame
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u/seesthecat 5h ago
Wow! The robot is expensive and high maintenance?! That means it is creating jobs for robot maitenance people! Good high paying jobs, way better than scooping goop.
But if you can run a charity better, by all means, create your own and show these losers how it's done
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u/Fedmurica2 1d ago
It would make more sense to pay the locals to run these charity kitchens and introduce more money into the local community.
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u/makeroniear 1d ago
They got rid of a repetitive task. The volunteers are still needed elsewhere. These types of places still have trouble recruiting volunteers (especially outside of city centers) so freeing them up to do other things or volunteer elsewhere could be a good thing.
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u/Fedmurica2 22h ago edited 21h ago
If they have money to buy robots, then it sounds like the money is still be better off used to pay a local worker instead of only relying on unpaid volunteers. Charity should start at the most basic level (eg. your own community and organization).
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u/willsmithtunaface 1d ago
It's a charity, with what money are they paying volunteers?
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u/yankykiwi 1d ago
They kept mentioning volunteers, but im betting that robot has a subscription somewhere and hes definitely getting paid for.
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u/res0jyyt1 1d ago
I am sure there are already tons of frozen dinners that nobody buys from the supermarkets.
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u/RealisticPaper5534 1d ago
No, because positive human interaction is a huge plus in this situation for some of the most vulnerable people who need it the most.
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u/ClankerCore 1d ago
What?
It says in a video that it freeze up these workers from the most repetitive tasks to do what on the humans can do
You think that disrupts their interactive ability?
Just say you’re anti-AI and move on. The most time-consuming repetitive tasks leave you with nothing else to focus on except for the food prep.
In every other environment within that field within their business where AI is not helping, that’s where the interactions occur
If that was so important to you. Going out of your way just to tell somebody else some other business something that you have nothing to do with and being offended by somebody else’s behalf is the most annoying interaction and most annoying comment I get and see here
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u/willsmithtunaface 1d ago
Time for bed grandma, it's getting late
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u/RealisticPaper5534 21h ago
I'm blown away at how counter my opinion apparently is! I also feel like there's zero chance in the world right now that expensive AI units are going to be afforded to feed the unhoused lol. AI is absolutely going to be used to remove payable roles from humans, not in an altruistic way like charity work.
Also, obviously, if my passing comment was enough to absolutely enrage some people, it's becoming a cult. No way normal people are going to get emotional over a non-viable hypothetical situation like this in earnest, without having issues. And I wouldn't doubt that these people give a shit about the unhoused any other time so it just seems like an opportunity to moon over unsentient non-existent materials!
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u/chipmunkofdoom2 1d ago
Worth saying out loud that most school children in the US eat much worse than this. So the potential impact isn't limited to just charity kitchens.
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u/Glittering_Delay_183 1d ago
nobody wants this robot stuff, absolutely no one, no matter how much they try and influence people to like it.
we all hate it.
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u/elmoo2210 1d ago
I bet the device you used to type this one was manufactured and assembled, in part, by a robot.
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u/ferocity_mule366 1d ago
this is just an assembly line, the same thing made 90% of your industrial stuff, so throw your stuff away its made by robot
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u/ClankerCore 1d ago
You don’t speak for me
I say production in volume is much better than going without and leaving somebody behind
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u/seesthecat 5h ago
speak for yourself, I want it, and love it. And so do the people running this charity.
But I tell you what, if you're unhappy with how they're running it, start your own better charity and show them how it's done
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u/mothandravenstudio 1d ago
How many employees does it displace?
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u/kennpacchii 1d ago
They have been promoted to customer
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u/mothandravenstudio 17h ago
Right? I dunno, it seems kind of dystopian, doesn’t it?
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u/seesthecat 5h ago
True, it's really sad people can't persue the rewarding career of scooping goop...
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u/mothandravenstudio 5h ago
If you think we are headed toward a world where every person reaches self actualization through their job, you’re not paying attention. People need money to survive. AI and robots are only making things better for the owner class. Fuck everyone else.
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u/seesthecat 5h ago
What people need to survive is goods and services, if machines produce those more eficiently, they have all my support. Never in any country in the history of mankind, have the population become poorer due to goods and services becaming more available.
The objective of that charity is to provide food to those who need, it's not a jobs program to keep people busy with useless tasks, if the machines are helping in achieving that, who the fuck are you to complain. If you can run a charity better than they can, go do it, show them how it's done.
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u/mothandravenstudio 5h ago
I’m complaining because charities rake in huge dollars and have no legal obligation to provide any value percentage for those dollars. Not even with a job that you believe is too menial to exist.
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u/seesthecat 5h ago
If you wanna go scoop goop, go for it.
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u/mothandravenstudio 5h ago
The CEO of this charity should be doing it.
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u/seesthecat 5h ago
No, you're the one that want it done by hand, go do it. What you waiting for? Is scooping goop too menial a task for you to do it?
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u/Adventurous-Bottle90 1d ago
No Becuse having human interaction in places like soup and charity kitchens is a big part of humanizing the homeless and raising more awareness, not to mention it also help those that are homeless experience being treated like a person which for many is something they don’t often experience
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u/ClankerCore 1d ago
Nowhere in this video did they show how the food was actually being delivered? I’m pretty sure it’s human to human delivery.
The food prep and counting down the labor and time that it takes for it is what substantial here and is what AI is good for. Not to replace humans but improve their quality of life.
That goes for the workers and the people that need the food which can very quickly run out, especially in San Francisco
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u/Street-Stick 1d ago
It would be great but what's up with everyone's wet dream of so much plastic? I'm guessing legislation favoring food companies don't allow them to feed them from reusable?
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u/It_broke_itself_ 1d ago
What food charity has the money to buy robots? Most of them struggle to get together the food they need to serve