A patent Amazon has received would pair humans and machines. In this case, the humans would be in a cage.
Illustrations that accompany the patent, which was granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark office in 2016, show a cage-like enclosure around a small work space sitting atop the kind of robotic trolleys that now drive racks of shelves around Amazon warehouses.
Crawford and Joler, in the research work titled “Anatomy of an AI System,” describe the patent:
“It depicts a metal cage intended for the worker, equipped with different cybernetic add-ons, that can be moved through a warehouse by the same motorized system that shifts shelves filled with merchandise,” they write. “Here, the worker becomes a part of a machinic ballet, held upright in a cage which dictates and constrains their movement.”
Amazon, in its patent, suggests using what it calls a human transport device to bring workers near robots for situations like repair or removal of a malfunctioning trolley, or retrieving items that have fallen off robot-controlled shelves. They could also be used to cut across an off-limits work space to reach a restroom that would otherwise be a significant trip on foot.
And Amazon, which has turned an obsession with efficiency and business processes into an online retail and logistics empire, envisions plenty of automation with its human transport device. In one scenario described by the patent, a robot that has failed could alert a computer system, automatically generating an order for repair, which it assigns to an available human transport device. Which device receives the order could be determined by its location, or the schedule or the particular skills of the human located within.
I can now manually hear Daleks shilling Amazon Prime.
Austin Diaz
Looks p. comfy desu senpai
Thomas Bell
>the feels guy inside Fucking kek
Hudson Sullivan
This makes me glad I stopped using any Amazon services a year ago out of principle.
Nolan Rivera
Amazon is a sick company.
Jack Long
Maybe he's the Antichrist. Oh antiTRUST
Carter Perez
>Amazon, in its patent, suggests using what it calls a human transport device to bring workers near robots for situations like repair or removal of a malfunctioning trolley, or retrieving items that have fallen off robot-controlled shelves. They could also be used to cut across an off-limits work space to reach a restroom that would otherwise be a significant trip on foot.
To be fair the cage seems to be a safety measure designed to protect squishy humans that have to work around metal robots that could go berserk at any moment.
Seriously though FUCK robots. Not literally though, that's bluepilled as fuck.
Isaac Morales
So in the future you won't have to worry about a machine taking your job. Because you will be that machine. We will all be slaves to each other. Each day we catalog and send out shit people buy from Amazon and at night we order all that shit for other people to ship it to us. It truly is a most wonderful future. We all get to work all day inside a mech just like all those animes you faggots jack off to.
Wyatt Brown
Will it jerk me off? Does it have a fleshlight attachment?
Aaron Parker
they will buy the government out oneday to avoid antitrust
Asher Sanchez
No, but there will be a optional dog to be included in Canadian models.
>. “Here, the worker becomes a part of a machinic ballet, held upright in a cage which dictates and constrains their movement.”
That is so fucking sinister, I do not even have words.
Juan Lopez
I can't wait to work from inside my labor cage. I wonder if they will let you live in it. Probably, Amazon has historically been a benevolent company
Kevin Jones
How someone hasn’t shot up an Amazon warehouse is beyond me. >Safety acronym/motto was actually B.E.S.O. >Work is electronically logged and you must put up better numbers than the day before, tracked like fantasy football >No clocks in sight, just a notification when finished >tons of AA hires and management acts like they‘re satirizing themselves >CEO is basically Josef Fritzl or Ted Bundy if he were in charge of a business and masturbated to money
Adrian Smith
It has dual cupholders for piss bottles.
Dominic Perry
I wish more buisnesses would adopt the notification module. I have autism and no concept of time anyways, so it's great when the work is fast and I can just look up and it's five.
Jordan Anderson
do the valued employees at least get a poo jar? maybe a soda fountain?
Asher Russell
>No clocks in sight, just a notification when finished Actually that might be better for some folks, as checking my watch makes the day feel slower than when I don't. But pacing, is why I check my watch. To make sure I make the work I am given lasts the day.
Carter Sanders
Based
We should put all Democrats in these things, for the good of humanity
>1 Post by this user ID This is a slide thread. They are taking an issue that Trump and Bernie and socialists around the country can agree on: That Amazon sucks. Do not be distracted by slide threads. This is how the machine learns to recognize its targets.
Jose Sanchez
And why not do your work faster than that and get started on the next day
Jason Gutierrez
daily reminder if you work at amazon and don't like your job you're more than welcome to quit and find a job elsewhere instead of whining to daddy government to intervene
Jose Myers
can i patent a cage for this wage cage? essentially a concentration camp made out of mesh wire and some buttons that do stuff?
Julian Bailey
Call him feelsguy. That's what it was. ANyone who calls him wojack is a redditor.
Colton Evans
Yessir!
Angel Price
the world in which we humans live in is not fit for human habitation.
James Cox
I left Jow Forums for a few years from 2013 - 2018 and was always wondering why everybody called him wojak. Nice to know why.
>And why not do your work faster than that and get started on the next day Because it has no value to the employee.
Dominic Robinson
Because when you work harder you get noticed. That's good when there is a position that you could move up into. When there is no ladder to climb, it just means they'll raise expectations, without raising the wages.
Chase Peterson
What is the IC and DOD cloud computing contract, Alex?
Evan Lee
>oh,I see user finished a days work by lunch time. >let's raise the quota. >colleagues proceed to push your shit about it every day until you leave.
Angel Wright
Bingo. I worked with assholes who did not get that, they were very good goy, who made their company much money, while complaining about wages. I don't get it, how do people not think critically about things so pertinent to themselves and their wellbeing?
Kayden Miller
Cage is for your own protection retard, but idk why they would have people drive these when they can be programmed, probably an obsolete patent
Evan Martinez
>They're all pitbulls
Aiden Morales
Already did, amazon is still shit, eat a dick Jeff.
How delectably sinister. Caging wagies inside a 2'x2' mobile prison cell that can be remotely restricted to certain areas and the only outside interaction is accomplished with one of those goofy claws that never pick the item up correctly. I've thought of some sick disgusting things that can be done to people, but this is next level torment.
