May 8, 2023
‘We are grunt workers’: The $15 an hour laborers behind the AI revolution
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: robotics/AI
Despite the acute and never-ending need, these workers and other professionals in the field are paid very little, with no benefits.
A sizable, unseen army of contract employees is needed in the rapidly developing field of artificial intelligence (AI) to educate AI systems on evaluating data and producing text and visuals.
“We are grunt workers, but there would be no AI language systems without it,” Alexej Savreux, who has worked with startups like OpenAI, the creators of AI-sensation ChatGPT, told NBC.