Tag: Data labeling
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Meet the AI Workers Who Tell Their Friends and Family to Stay Away from AI
When AI Meets the Living Room: A Candid Warning Krista Pawloski remembers the single defining moment that shaped her opinion on the ethics of artificial intelligence. As an AI worker on Amazon Mechanical Turk—a platform that lets companies hire people to perform tasks like data entry, image labeling, and content moderation—she saw how quickly a…
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AI Workers Warn Friends and Family: Why Some Say Stay Away from AI
Introduction: When AI Is Personal In the modern workplace, artificial intelligence is often treated as a tool that boosts productivity, speeds up data tasks, and unlocks new business capabilities. Yet for a growing subset of AI workers, the deployment of this technology carries personal implications. They have watched the industry from inside—laboring on platforms like…
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Meet the Chinese Startup Using AI—and a Small Army of Workers—to Train Robots
In the World of Industrial Robotics, a New Model Emerges Across China’s sprawling tech hubs, a discreet blue-collar workforce collaborates with cutting-edge artificial intelligence to teach robots how to perform complex tasks. A rising Chinese startup is redefining industrial automation by combining AI-driven training with a lean, hands-on workforce. The model is simple in concept…