DoorDash launches Tasks, a new app that pays delivery couriers in some markets to submit video clips and complete other tasks for training AI models
Bloomberg Natalie Lung
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@natlungfy
Natalie Lung
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Exclusive: DoorDash launched a new app “Tasks” that pays couriers in some US markets if they submit audio and video clips to help improve AI and robotics models. Many of these tasks are completing household chores while capturing footage with a body-worn camera — data that would …
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@markriedl
Mark Riedl
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AI companies paid a lot for RLHF data to make LLMs more helpful and safer. That was relatively easy data to acquire (from a technical sense). Agents and robots need a different type of data about interacting with the real world that is harder to get www.bloomberg.com/news/artic…
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@hypervisible.blacksky.app
@hypervisible.blacksky.app
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“The delivery company has launched a new app called Tasks for those efforts, listing paid opportunities for activities such as recording an unscripted conversation in Spanish, or filming themselves completing various household chores like loading a dishwasher, handwashing dishes …