People who are training AI don't know exactly what they are doing it for. They get paid, I think, one to two dollars an hour, which is pretty low. It's just a sale house because you cannot get up for your basic digital bills or the rent. The stakes are really high and so the demand for data for self-driving cars is super high.
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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