Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly collection through which NPR’s worldwide group shares snapshots of moments from their lives and work all over the world.
You may not understand it, however every part from AI chatbots and autonomous driving methods requires actually trillions of knowledge factors to coach. My colleague Emily Feng and I have been curious concerning the individuals behind the scenes — these working in rooms like this one, who gather and type all that knowledge for AI functions.
I took this picture earlier this month at a “data processing center” within the northern Chinese language metropolis of Shenyang. Cities like this have been as soon as depending on fading industries like steelmaking and coal. Now they’re making an attempt to reinvent themselves by attracting new tech, together with AI knowledge work.
The duties right here appeared extremely summary: staff spending hours drawing packing containers round shifting shapes and inexperienced dots on a display screen, and checking them in opposition to digicam photos to assist the AI perceive what it is seeing — like telling the distinction between an individual and a pole, or a parked automobile and one which’s shifting. It jogged my memory of the TV present Severance — which is sort of well-liked in China too!
Even the middle’s supervisor admitted the work is fairly monotonous. However I suppose that is what innovation seems like backstage — younger staff quietly sorting via large quantities of knowledge to energy the AI instruments increasingly more of us use.
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