GUIDELINES FOR EFF-01 TELEOPERATORS
- You will be teleoperating a robot in the customer's home. They have allowed you into their space - so above all, you must be respectful...
Ivan tosses another pinch of tobacco into the fire, his animal skin covered skis resting against a snow-topped stump. "Tomorrow we will meet the woman," he says, to no one in particular, making a silent chopping motion with his hand. It's bad luck to mention the creature by name.
Tonight, the sacrifice of goods to the fire is a lure to bed for its master spirit. Tomorrow, Ivan will strap on skin-skis that sound like hooves against the snow, and the phsyical hunt--the imitation game--will be on.
Willerslev: All performances in alien kinds of bodies, therefore, share a kind of double negation: the person is not the species he is imitating, but he is also not not that species...
>how many layers of mimesis are you on right now?<
>idk, like one or two?<
>you are little baby. watch this:<
- Your movements will be transmitted to the customer's EFF-01 unit. This means you must move predictably/linearly - avoid sudden jerks or twitches that the unit cannot perform. An ideal motion is direct/straight towards the goal. Plan your movements out before starting them. If your movements are detected to be low-quality, your motion capture harness will beep and your rating may be downgraded. If you opt-in to model training, you may be eligible for rewards.
Ivan crouched low, skin-skis nestling into the snow. Behind a tree stood the creature, frozen, staring.
Wordlessly, Ivan began to sway from side to side, the motion transforming from human to an ungulate waddle as it crept towards the other creature, clutching the rifle to its chest. The creature could have turned and ran at any moment, melted back into the forest, but it stood, transfixed by the performance, the muffled skis its hoof-noises and the dark, low branches its antlers.
Willerslev: To act in between these two identities is a highly complex task... the success of the hunter depends upon his ability to keep up a double perspective…
"so it's ai? not remote control?"
"they said it falls back to teleop sometimes? but most of the time it's supposed to be ai, i think"
"that's cool"
"yeah like… look i gave it that and it just like, knows where-ope-around the counter, bud-isn't perfect but-"
- Takeover from a model-led task should be smooth and consistent with the model's prior actions. CRITICAL STEP: Use the scratchpad to view the model's plans, and update it before handoff…
ALLEGATIONS ARE EMERGING against San Francisco-based Effigial Robotics that its robotic assistant units were involved in a brazen series of thefts… Customers reported stolen credit card details, drained cryptocurrency wallets, and online impersonation…
Effigial, through a spokesperson, blamed a rogue "teleoperator" for the incidents, referring to a feature where contractors could take control of a unit in some situations. The contractor, the spokesperson claimed, abused access to the teleoperation system to gain further access to customer devices, adding that the company "is working in cooperation with Manila law enforcement, and expects to make full restitution to all affected users."
Streamer "Kimdane" emerged as a prominent face of the scandal last week after accusing his Effigial unit of impersonating him in a "memecoin" cryptocurrency scam that cost both fans and investors millions. He alleges the unit accessed his social media accounts to post misleading messages advertising the fraudulent investment opportunity…
Critics of the company's statements have pointed to the scale of the incident, questioning how so much damage could be caused by a single employee. Effigial's spokesperson declined to comment on an ongoing investigation, but stated that "Our policies and proprietary training systems categorically prevent any transfer of marginal behaviors from teleoperators to our models."
Turing: It might be urged that when playing the "imitation game" the best strategy for the machine may possibly be something other than imitation of the behaviour of a man. This may be, but I think it is unlikely that there is any great effect of this kind.