{"id":93181,"date":"2019-07-06T10:02:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T17:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/chinas-big-ai-advantage-humans"},"modified":"2019-07-06T10:02:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T17:02:46","slug":"chinas-big-ai-advantage-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/chinas-big-ai-advantage-humans","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Big AI Advantage: Humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"China\u2019s Big AI Advantage: Humans\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tMZgRTQ-hv4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Seemingly \u201cintelligent\u201d devices like self-driving trucks aren\u2019t actually all that intelligent. In order to avoid plowing into other cars or making illegal lane changes, they need a lot of help.<\/p>\n<p>In China, that help is increasingly coming from rooms full of college students.<\/p>\n<p>Li Zhenwei is a data labeler. His job, which didn\u2019t even exist a few years ago, involves sitting at a computer, clicking frame-by-frame through endless hours of dashcam footage, and drawing lines over each photo to help the computer recognize lane markers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery good-looking field has people working behind the scenes,\u201d says Li. \u201cI\u2019d prefer to be an anonymous hero.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Li, and many of his classmates at a local vocational school, are benefiting from the Chinese government\u2019s push to move away from an economy based on heavy industry, and toward one focused on high tech.<\/p>\n<p>Li doesn\u2019t have a degree in computer science. So for him, this is a new opportunity to get a foot in the door of a booming tech industry.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/chinas-big-ai-advantage-humans\">Continue reading \u201cChina\u2019s Big AI Advantage: Humans\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seemingly \u201cintelligent\u201d devices like self-driving trucks aren\u2019t actually all that intelligent. In order to avoid plowing into other cars or making illegal lane changes, they need a lot of help. In China, that help is increasingly coming from rooms full of college students. Li Zhenwei is a data labeler. His job, which didn\u2019t even exist [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,32,1490,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-education","category-government","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}