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Sources: OpenAI hired ~1,000 remote contractors in the past six months, 60% for data labeling and 40% programmers to teach its models software engineering tasks

many humans — are building AI tools. They are not magical or simply the product of Silicon Valley elites https://www.semafor.com/... https://twitter.com/... @martinsfp : Generative A.I. is starting to take forms of ‘creative gruntwork’ away from humans. Not a bad thing, in the grand scheme of things. Who wants to write dull SEO articles or boring code? https://twitter.com/... @faris : What's that novel that opens with the guy in a astronomical observatory training the AI that will replace him? https://twitter.com/... @semafor : About 60% of the contractors were hired to do “data labeling” — creating massive sets of images, audio clips, and other information that can then be used to train artificial intelligence tools or autonomous vehicles https://www.semafor.com/...

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  • @semaforben Ben Smith on x
    RIP “Learn to Code” https://www.semafor.com/...
  • @reedalbergotti Reed Albergotti on x
    Scoop: @OpenAI has hired about 1K contractors over the past six months around the world, and about 400 of them are programmers who are teaching its models, in granular detail, how to code. w/@lmatsakis https://www.semafor.com/...
  • @nathanbenaich Nathan Benaich on x
    Once again, training data is the key to AI progress... They most likely want to feed this model with a very specific kind of training data, where the human provides a step-by-step layout of their thought-process," said the developer https://twitter.com/...
  • @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x
    Software developers realizing OpenAI is coming for their jobs after it's dome with journalists and artists. [Meme of a woman looking frustrated]
  • @mylesudland Myles Udland on x
    we're 3 weeks into the AI buzz cycle and already at the “it's an army of outsourced contractors doing data labeling” stage https://twitter.com/...
  • @eamonjavers Eamon Javers on x
    Also, RIP “Learn?” https://twitter.com/...
  • @lmatsakis Louise Matsakis on x
    It's not uncommon for AI companies to farm out this kind of labor. But I think it's important to highlight because it shows that humans — many humans — are building AI tools. They are not magical or simply the product of Silicon Valley elites https://www.semafor.com/... https://t…
  • @martinsfp @martinsfp on x
    Generative A.I. is starting to take forms of ‘creative gruntwork’ away from humans. Not a bad thing, in the grand scheme of things. Who wants to write dull SEO articles or boring code? https://twitter.com/...
  • @faris @faris on x
    What's that novel that opens with the guy in a astronomical observatory training the AI that will replace him? https://twitter.com/...
  • @semafor @semafor on x
    About 60% of the contractors were hired to do “data labeling” — creating massive sets of images, audio clips, and other information that can then be used to train artificial intelligence tools or autonomous vehicles https://www.semafor.com/...