Very good boys? The dark, dystopian rise of robot dogs | Arwa Mahwadi
If so, I suggest you head to San Francisco, where a startup called Dimensional has been paying people $20 (£15) an hour to walk four-legged robot dogs.
Key points
- Pups that carry your shopping are one thing – but what about the mechanical canines being bought up in the US by ICE?
- Have you ever wanted to hang out with a dog with no fur, no face and a chip in its shoulder?
- They might carry groceries home, for example, which is certainly something my….
This isn’t because the dogs need the exercise – it is because the company needs the training data.
As reported in the New York Times, the goal is to develop “operating systems that can integrate with AI agents so the machines can act more independently”.
Additional details
- What exactly will these machines do when they can act more independently?
- Or the mutant mutts due to be developed by a startup called Warhound?
- The founder of Dimensional insists they will help people.
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