美公司招募遛机器狗人员
遛机器狗的时薪与遛真狗差不多，但机器狗需要花更多时间在旧金山人行道上四处溜达，完成它的“大小便”等日常事务。招聘启事称，每次遛狗需要花四到六个小时。
这则招聘启事后来已被删除。它由一家名为Dimensional的创业公司发布在Facebook的“湾区招聘”群组中。有趣的是，这家公司恰好位于旧金山一个名叫Dogpatch的社区。
该招聘启事只引来了寥寥几条评论，没有一条评论觉得这件事有什么奇怪。一位母亲写道：“我儿子对此感兴趣，可以马上开始工作。”但她后来表示，她儿子最终并没有真的去做这份工作。
招聘启事
Dimensional创始人斯塔什·波米奇特(Stash Pomichter)表示，公司正在为机器人开发一款开源操作系统。现年26岁的他希望将AI智能体嵌入到机器人中，让消费者能够指挥机器人在现实世界中完成工作，就像人们向Meta智能体Muse等服务发出指令，让它们在线上替自己完成任务一样。
波米奇特坚信，人们应该能够指挥机器人搬起沉重的箱子、搬运各种物品。“说实话，人类至今还在做这些体力活，太原始了。”他在接受采访时说。
为何遛机器狗？
不过，在机器人狗能够替人类省去搬运食品杂货的麻烦和狼狈之前，Dimensional还需要提升机器人的自主导航能力，使其能够在城市环境中自行行动。因此，公司需要招聘机器狗遛狗员。
他们通过操控和引导名为RoboFido的机器狗，为机器人生成波米奇特所说的“真实参照数据”(ground truth)，同时由机器狗上的摄像头和传感器记录整个遛狗过程。
一位居民看到有人牵着一只四足机械“宠物”在街上行走后，感叹旧金山真是一座奇怪的城市，而且正变得越来越奇怪。这位居民还向《纽约时报》提供了一段视频。
Dimensional并不是一家硬件公司。波米奇特表示，公司从美国、中国和德国的制造商那里购买了100多台机器狗和50台人形机器人，正在开发能够与AI智能体集成的操作系统，让这些机器人能够更加自主地行动。
宇树机器人
本月，该公司派人遛的机器狗每台售价2000美元，来自中国公司宇树科技。这些机器狗出厂时就可以通过手持遥控器或手机应用进行操控。
Dimensional对比了机器狗在人类操控下和AI智能体操控下的行走表现，发现后者的表现仍然不尽如人意。
“我们从遛狗实验中发现，智能体在控制硬件方面仍然很差，”波米希特说，“而且仍然需要人类参与其中。”
Dimensional的目标是让机器人能够在工厂、数据中心和建筑工地工作，或担任保安。目前，类似的应用已经出现：一只机器狗在亚特兰大一个公寓小区巡逻，一名人类操作员则在菲律宾远程参与其中。这台机器人本质上就是供远程人类观察者使用的一台移动安防摄像头。
波米奇特说，他已经编写程序，让一只机器狗在夜间巡逻Dimensional那间类似仓库的办公室。他给机器狗输入了这样的提示词，“你是世界上最优秀的警犬”，并要求它跟踪午夜后进入大楼的任何人。
如果机器狗发现有人，就会给波米奇特发送短信。随后，他便可以查看监控录像，判断来者究竟是加班心切的员工，还是擅自闯入的陌生人。
本月，机器狗在Dogpatch社区四处游荡，但并非所有人都觉得有趣。Dimensional希望为AI智能体赋予真实世界中的实体躯体。
但是与此同时，越来越多的人开始担心，能力更强大的AI可能会试图杀死人类。这种《终结者》电影式的恐怖联想激怒了一名男子。他前往Dimensional的办公室，随后向公司一名员工发送了令人不安的短信，声称这些机器狗将被用作武器。《纽约时报》看到的一条短信显示，该男子写道：“祝你这个人渣，帮着屠杀无辜路人时玩得开心。”Dimensional随后向警方报了案。
波米奇特说：“我们今后可能还得应对更多这样的事情。到那时，我们可能就需要更多巡逻机器狗了。”
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America's recruiting machine dogs.
The walking machine dog earns about the same amount of time as the walking dog, but it takes more time to walk around the San Francisco sidewalk to do its routines like “feath”. The job announcement stated that it took four to six hours to walk a dog.
The notice of recruitment was subsequently deleted. It consists of publish, an entrepreneurship company called Dimensional, in the “Bay District Recruitment” group on Facebook. Interestingly, this company happens to be in a community called DogPatch in San Francisco.
The job announcement had elicited only a few comments, none of which seemed strange. A mother wrote: "My son is interested in this and can start working right away." She later stated, however, that her son had not finally actually done the job.
Recruitment notice
Stash Pomichter, founder of Dimensional, stated that the company was developing an open source operating system for robots. At 26, he wanted to embed AZAI agent in a robot that would allow consumers to direct robots to work in the real world, just as people give instructions to services like Meta AI agentMuse to perform their tasks online.
Pockett is convinced that one should be able to command robots to lift heavy boxes and carry various items. “To be honest, it's too primitive that humans are still doing these physical tasks.” He said in an interview.
Why are you walking a machine dog?
However, before robot dogs can save humans the troubles and coyote of carrying food groceries, Dimensional also needs to upgrade robotic autonomous navigation capabilities to enable them to act on their own in urban environments. Therefore, companies need to recruit robots and dogs to walk dogs.
By manipulating and directing a robot dog called RoboFido, they generate what Pockett calls “real reference data” for robots, and at the same time document the whole dog-walking process with cameras and sensors on the dog.
One resident lamented San Francisco as a strange city and becoming more and more strange when he saw someone walking on the street with a four-foot mechanical “pet”. The resident also provided a video to The New York Times.
Dimensional is not a hardware company. According to Pockett, the company has purchased more than 100 machine dogs and 50 man-form robots from manufacturers in the United States, China and Germany and is developing operational systems that can be integrated with AZAI agent to enable these robots to operate more autonomously.
A U-ki robot.
This month, the company's machines and dogs, each of which it has set foot for $2,000, came from the Chinese company Woo Tree Technology. When they leave the factory, they can be manipulated by hand-held remote control or mobile phone applications.
Dimensional compared the behaviour of the robot dog under human control with that of AZAI agent and found that the latter was still not performing as intended.
“We found from the dog walking experiment that AI agent is still poor in controlling hardware,” Bomihit said, “and still needs human participation.”
The goal of Dimensional is to enable robots to work in factories, data centres and construction sites or to serve as security guards. At present, similar applications have emerged: a robot dog patrols a small section of an apartment in Atlanta, with a human operator participating remotely in the Philippines. The robot is essentially a mobile security camera for remote human observers.
Poumit said that he had prepared a procedure for a machine dog to patrol the office of a similar warehouse in Dimensional at night. He typed prompt in the machine dog, “You're the best dog in the world” and asked it to track anyone who entered the building after midnight.
If the dog finds out someone, he'll text Pockett. He was then able to view the surveillance footage and determine whether he was an overworked employee or an trespassing stranger.
This month, robot dogs wandered around the DogPatch community, but not all found it interesting. Dimensional wants to give AZAI agent the physical body of the real world.
But at the same time, more and more people are beginning to fear that more powerful AI might try to kill humanity. This " Terminator" film terror alliance provoked a man. He went to the Dimensional office and subsequently sent a disturbing text message to one of the company ' s employees, claiming that the machines and dogs would be used as weapons. According to a text message read in The New York Times, the man wrote: “Have a nice day while helping to kill innocent people.” Dimensional subsequently reported the case to the police.
“We may have to deal with more of this in the future. Then we might need more patrol machines and dogs."
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