$164,000 A YEAR. THAT'S WHAT ONE COMPANY SAVES BY LETTING ONE PERSON RUN FOUR EXCAVATORS FROM A SINGLE CHAIR.
The machines sit at four separate rural gravel pits, each one busy for maybe 1-2 hours out of an 8-hour shift, one or two trucks a day. Not enough work to justify parking a full-time operator at any single site.
One operator runs all four from a single bank of screens, hundreds of miles from any of them. An AI layer watches all four feeds at once and tells them which pit needs attention first. The grade-control display does its own terrain read, catching depth errors down to a couple centimeters as the bucket moves.
Four site-based operators: about $224,000 a year combined.
One remote operator plus four AI-assisted consoles: roughly $60,000 a year in wages, $240,000 in equipment across all four machines, cameras, wireless control units, and the AI layer itself.
Under a year and a half, the hardware pays for itself in wages alone.
The article below calls this the next wave after digital agents. It's already stepping off the screen and into dirt nobody gets paid to stand in anymore.
i don’t think people quite understand sam ‘the cannibal’ altman
apple not getting involved in building frontier ai is a disaster for them and will be the end of the company in the next decade
sam will build devices. he’ll ensure the only first class ai experience can be on those devices.
there’ll be a serious disadvantage using technology not infused with openai models. then it’s game over.
he will own the laptops, the smartphones, the app store, all the apps, and the intelligence.
endgame.
Maturing is realizing when you wake up randomly at 3am you’re supposed to PRAY over your home, your mind, over your children. Then sit and listen to what God tells you to do next
@VadimStrizheus OC is controlling everything inside and around my entire house. From monitoring all cameras to monitoring each thing connected to my home wifi. Absolutely love it! There is nothing it doesn’t control. It’s fun!
I think people are just done setting it up and it’s just rolling
@SMB_Attorney The urgency is we need to get our shit together. We need to make sure our data and environment is robot and ai ready! This will not be a smooth transition.