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How AI really works, and how the smart home broke

The Vergecast

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The Future of AI

The job of these annotators, you talk to a bunch of people who actually like sit down on the computer and do this kind of training work for a living. It's weird to me that it's this big secretive industry that is so mission critical to what everybody says is the future. Why is it this third party subcontracting world instead of Google hiring a team of 10,000 people to do it?

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