Artificial Intelligence is taking a lion’s share from our daily life. Brilliant brains are inventing and exploring all the possibilities to bring out the innovations in the AI segment. But do they always stay relevant?
During the time electronic machines were invented, it was said to be cloned with a notion of helping human beings in terms of hard-core physical labour. But in this day and age, humans are fairly scared of getting replaced with AI. In particular, the extinction of many jobs is currently a looming fear-factor.
Besides, a new viral video has brought back all these arguments back among netizens. A video of a robot that has been designed to cut hair is going viral after it was posted on Reddit. It resembles Charlie Chaplin’s ‘Modern Times’. More than the laughing content, the face of Chaplin getting hurt with the feeding machine should be highlighted here.
Reddit user @MrJasonMason shared a video of American engineer Shane Wighton who had posted the clip on his YouTube channel Stuff Made Here in 2020. Wighton explained in the video that he created this machine during Covid as he did not want “someone who was touching the heads of hundreds of people giving him a haircut.”
The video began with a man getting a haircut from a robot. The machine’s structure looks a bit complicated and required the man to keep his head still during the haircut.
In the video, Wighton explains how he trained the robot to use two combs to separate the sections of hair. He even built a special mechanism for it. But what might make sense for a person doesn’t always make sense for a robot; for the system to see each hair and separate them, it would need overhead cameras and advanced object detection algorithms.
Taking to the comment section, people are sharing mixed opinions, where teasing his facial expression to praising his mastermind to sharing concerns regarding the future can be seen.
