{"id":94940,"date":"2019-08-18T12:22:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T19:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/small-towns-in-india-are-powering-the-global-race-for-artificial-intelligence"},"modified":"2019-08-18T12:22:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T19:22:31","slug":"small-towns-in-india-are-powering-the-global-race-for-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/small-towns-in-india-are-powering-the-global-race-for-artificial-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"Small towns in India are powering the global race for artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/small-towns-in-india-are-powering-the-global-race-for-artificial-intelligence2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One day, who knows when, artificial intelligence could hollow out the job market. But for now, it is generating relatively low-paying <a href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/topic\/jobs\" target=\"_blank\">jobs<\/a>. The market for data labeling passed $500 million in 2018 and it will reach $1.2 billion by 2023, according to the research firm Cognilytica. This kind of work, the study showed, accounted for 80% of the time spent building AI technology.<\/p>\n<p>Is the work exploitative? It depends on where you live and what you\u2019re working on. In India, it is a ticket to the middle class. In New Orleans, it\u2019s a decent enough job. For someone working as an independent contractor, it is often a dead end.<\/p>\n<p>There are skills that must be learned \u2014 like spotting signs of a disease in a video or medical scan or keeping a steady hand when drawing a digital lasso around the image of a car or a tree. In some cases, when the task involves medical videos, pornography or violent images, the work turns grisly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day, who knows when, artificial intelligence could hollow out the job market. But for now, it is generating relatively low-paying jobs. The market for data labeling passed $500 million in 2018 and it will reach $1.2 billion by 2023, according to the research firm Cognilytica. This kind of work, the study showed, accounted for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1878,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-employment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94940","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}