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Poop Drones Are Keeping Sewers Running So Humans Don't Have to

www.wired.com

Poop Drones Are Keeping Sewers Running So Humans Don’t Have to

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Now, the drone-captured data is sent off to contractors at SewerAI, who run it through their AI-assisted algorithms to identify defects automatically.
Now this is the kind of AI shit (pun intended) I can get behind (pun even more intended).
Sounds like a shitty job.
- AI is great at doing shitty jobs.
  
  And ai is shitty at doing great jobs
- Yeah I'm sure he regrets quitting his job to pass butter
"What is my purpose?"
- “You clean poop chutes.”
  
  "NOT LIKE THAT! NOT LIKE THAT!"
- Cue the worship of the "Master" that sends them holy shit a la "Reason" by Isaac Asimov.
This is honestly such an uplifting news that gives me hope for the future.
Prefer this over stories like a 10 year old that raised money to make up for lack of health care or some dystopian thing like that.
- Ten year olds operate the drones 👀
Two words I never thought I’d see together… poop drone.
- Honestly I though somebody was using drones to throw shit at people below.
- Well I'm glad it's this and not a drone made of poop.
  
  Why do I believe if Mythbusters was still on the air they’d actually try this.
Well, that’s a brand new sentence.
Sewer drone found footage could make a great horror movie.
- Please don’t give Hollywood any ideas.. like the Blair witch project.
One job that we can happily hand over to robots
Who services the poop drones I ask you...
Some unlucky roboticist is stuck cleaning poop off treads, testing sensors and resoldering connections while wearing gloves and just hoping they don't tear...
- The same people who cleans the mess from those adult videos and the confetti from AGT/BGT.
- Surely just throw it in the dishwasher
They need to make mining drones mandatory, too. Humans have no business being in holes. They are not their holes, they do not belong in them.
I'm looking at you, spelunkers.
- The bots yearn for the mines
- Humans have no business being in holes
  Thus, sex became forbidden, and humanity declined, with last generation asking their ancestors why would they impose such harsh ban upon them shortly before extinction.
So much for Mike Rowes dirty jobs.
(Jk, those things were always a load of shit anyway.)
- eh...
  mike rowe's full of shit. don't think for a moment any of those jobs were made up though.
  Man now I miss cash cab...
  
  It's basically like saying "illegal immigrants" aren't made up for Trump. Like, obviously people coming into the country illegally exist, but the dude was just making shit up when it came to the actual numbers.
  
  I remember he was shilling for trump after he won his first term, he was trying to play it off "it's not that bad" that he got voted.
I almost beat Sewer Shark. I was made for this!
Remind me of that James Bond scene https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9h1zn7l86HA
Robots are taking over our jobs… did folks who work is sewers make good money because it wasn’t a pleasant job?
https://youtu.be/ub0wV0TvY8Q
Lmao, they outsourced pooping to drones.
And I was doing it for free too.
Why are you flying the drones though? Just give them wheels and call them robots.
Costs less, is easier to operate, uses less energy, less sensitive parts exposed, can be used in smaller spaces, easier to recover...
- Or you could read the article. Wheels ain't gonna work down there bro.
  
  There is no mention why wheels wouldnt work.
  They only mention that flying is difficult because of confined space and changing airflows.

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