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Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma cover image

A Different Kind of Ted (Chiang) Talk

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

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The role of human labor in training AI

AI development still relies heavily on human labor for training and rendering it useful. Despite the notion of AI being in control and building itself, it actually requires an enormous number of human beings to be trained in how to be AI. The industry is built on the labor of humans, often hidden behind the facade of AI. The development of AI models like GPT involves blending human-created content from the internet, and rendering it useful entails an incredible amount of human labor at every step, with the vast majority of them being uncompensated.

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