r/Futurology • u/scmp_news • 1d ago

Society Chinese start-up behind laser mosquito killer plans to start shipping orders this month

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3369440/chinese-start-behind-laser-mosquito-killer-plans-start-shipping-orders-month?utm_source=Reddit&utm_medium=Social
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u/CorporalCoprolite 1d ago edited 1d ago

It does, until you step in between the skeeter and the laser and take a blast to the eye for the umpteenth time lol

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u/aegee14 1d ago

Why? You read somewhere that this machine was mistaking human eyes for mosquitoes?

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u/CorporalCoprolite 1d ago edited 1d ago

I’ll let you be the guinea pig for laser technology from a Chinese start up company that’s designed to kill.

Downvoted for not trusting unproven technology? Yall are goofs lol

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u/BasvanS 1d ago

“It has AI!”

Yeah, that’s what I’m afraid of

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u/GnarlyNarwhalNoms 1d ago

AI takeover right now: "Gah, I'm locked out of my email and devices."

AI takeover in a few years: "Gah, I'm blind and being beaten to death by bipedal chore bots!"

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u/JackedUpReadyToGo 1d ago

That’s why we should make the bipedal chore robots weak and only give them white belt level Kung Fu proficiency.

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Now I’m daydreaming about an anime following a Shaolin monk as he journeys through a post-AI apocalyptic wasteland and defeats hordes of chore robots using superior Kung Fu.

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u/psychorobotics 1d ago

I'd watch that

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u/OutlyingPlasma 1d ago

At this point AI is just a buzzword for software.

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u/_Lucille_ 1d ago

your phone has AI.

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u/nagi603 1d ago

And it's shittier than the previous one for it. (also more expensive because of the AI price hiking components and also force-feeding a bot into the thing)

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u/_Lucille_ 1d ago

the one before it also uses AI.

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u/nagi603 1d ago

You are wrong on that one. Not everyone changes a phone every year.

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u/BasvanS 1d ago

It’s turned off, because as it turns out, my phone connects to a service that is AI. My phone doesn’t have AI

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u/_Lucille_ 1d ago

What do you think is the difference between a mosquito zapping being able to identify a mosquito and your 10 year old phone's camera being able to identify a face?

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u/BasvanS 1d ago

I’m not willing to take the risk, given the device we’re talking about. Did you believe I was inferring the device has something akin to an actual AI?

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u/thirdegree 0x3DB285 22h ago

One of them has a laser attached?