Thousands of people in India are recording their daily domestic tasks using head-mounted cell phone cameras to help train the next generation of humanoid robots. Participants are paid approximately two dollars per hour for this labor, which involves capturing routine, everyday actions such as cutting fruit.
While this work provides a source of income, it carries an inherent irony and risk, as the data being collected and processed is explicitly used to train artificial intelligence systems that could ultimately replace the human workers performing these tasks.
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