We're used to thinking of artificial intelligence as knowledge generated by machines. But it turns out there's a vast network of human labor powering AI. There are people training AI every day, sometimes all day,. Just clicking away on images, on pixels so that the AI can get better at identifying things we humans do. We're going inside the AI factory on Today Explained.
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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