The Human Labor Behind Artificial Intelligence

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The Verge's Josh Jezza wrote a big piece about the people behind artificial intelligence. He says they are often called data annotators, and their work is pretty weird. You have to learn what data annotation is and then do kind of a training module for each task,. So you have to read them carefully and understand each and every bit of it.

We are used to thinking of artificial intelligence as knowledge generated by machines. The Verge’s Josh Dzieza pulls back the curtain on the vast network of human labor that powers AI.

This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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