Inside the race to train robots on human work
Source: Business Insider ·
Thousands of workers are recording everyday tasks to create training data for robots that could staff factories, clean homes, and even fight wars.
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One Friday evening this summer, a private chef prepared a three-course meal — burrata salad, baked salmon, and tiramisu — for two friends and me. The dinner was free, but there was a catch. A camera mounted on Chef Aliser Demir's baseball cap was recording everything. Demir came to my apartment through Shift, the data-collection arm of the German startup Microagi. The startup offers free private chefs in San Francisco in exchange for first-person footage of their work. Shift offered to pay Demir, who runs a private chef business, his usual rate of $100 to $150 per person. "I've been feeding people since I started this job," Demir said. "Now I am also feeding AI." This story is part of a series called The AI Data Grab, an inside look at how tech giants are increasingly turning to workers, users, and the physical world to get data to train AI. Read more stories in this series here. Demir is part of a global effort to collect data on how humans interact with the physical world, with the…