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AI Training Gets Another Human Assignment
· New York time
Workers in India are being paid to film themselves working so the footage can train artificial intelligence, BBC Business reports. The arrangement makes ordinary human activity an input for a major technology development: machines learning from people who still have to do the actual task. The payment is for recording work that becomes training material. It does not establish that the resulting systems can already perform every activity shown or replace the people recording it. The immediate development is a new demand for examples of human labor. For the global AI industry, the practice highlights the human contribution behind apparently automated capabilities. The future of work has requested a demonstration video. Conveniently for the future, someone working in the present is available to make it.
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