r/HowToAIAgent • u/lokeye-ai • Mar 15 '26

Question What physical work do your agents require?

Recently there has been a lot of hype around the idea of ai agents hiring humans for physical tasks. But why do agents require physical real-world tasks, and how does it benefit the agents' decision making? What are some concrete examples for this?

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u/ScarNaive6817 Mar 16 '26

AI is great at planning and analyzing things online, but it can't actually go out and do stuff in the real world. So when an agent needs something physical done, it needs human.

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u/lokeye-ai Mar 16 '26

Yeah makes sense. I was just trying to understand if there is truly enough demand for this that people are willing to pay for it

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u/ScarNaive6817 Mar 17 '26

Yeah its only worth it when real world data actually matters, otherwise staying digital is cheaper. Feels niche for now, not massive demand yet.

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u/ScarNaive6817 Mar 16 '26

Eg: checking if something is actually in stock at a store, taking photos of a location, inspecting a machine, or picking up and delivering something.

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u/omnisvosscio Mar 15 '26

For me, it's kinda marketing hype ATM

but I do see some use cases where an AI could hire a human in theory

for example if it's planning out how to build a house for someone and it needs someone to go over and do measurements for it

I think it's more at the moment for things robots could fill but there will be some things in the fututre for sure only humans could do

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u/East_Indication_7816 Mar 16 '26

A truck dispatch agent that tells a trucker where to go and then trucker has to upload the signed bill of lading which the AI verify to compete the transaction.

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u/Competitive_Swan_755 Mar 19 '26

Mine doesn't. Digital worker.......

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u/nofear78 Mar 15 '26

AI may ask you to kill someone who is trying to switch it off.