Faces for cookware: data collection industry flourishes as China pursues AI ambitions

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Faces for cookware: data collection industry flourishes as China pursues AI ambitions
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The residents of this village in China's Henan province are helping feed the demand for data to train AI algorithms:

The result has been a proliferation of AI products and services in China, from facial recognition-based payment systems to automated surveillance and even AI-animated state media news anchors. Chinese consumers mostly see these technologies as novel and futuristic, despite concerns raised by some over more invasive applications.

At a recent visit to its Beijing offices, some staff were labeling images of sleepy people that will be used by an autonomous driving project to identify drivers who might be falling asleep at the wheel. A Princeton University project related to autonomous driving initially put a task on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk but as the task became more complicated, people began making mistakes and BasicFinder was brought in to help correct the results, said Du.

Labellers at Qianji make roughly 100 yuan a day marking data points on photographs of people, surveillance footage and street images.

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