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Scale AI and CAIS' Remote Labor Index benchmark, which tests AI agents on freelance tasks, finds the best AI could perform just <3% of the work, earning $1,810

A new benchmark measures how well AI agents can automate economically valuable chores.  Human-level AI is still some ways off. Bluesky: @carlzimmer.com . Forums: r/artificial and r/technews Bluesky: C...

Companies like Scale AI are replacing low-cost data labelers with highly paid experts in fields such as finance, driven by the rise of reasoning AI models

Industry moves away from paying gig economy workers in Africa and Asia in push to build ‘smarter’ models

Big Tech's acquihires of AI startups, like Meta's $14.3B Scale AI deal, leaves investors with modest or no returns and may further entrench Big Tech's dominance

Meta and Google's AI talent grab may lead to more sustainable tech companies.  —  If you're a venture capitalist …

Meta's Scale AI deal dwarfs rivals' “reverse acquihires” in scope and ambition, showing that its fear of lagging in AI outweighs fears of regulatory backlash

Tech Across the Globe … Revalued  —  Samsung and Nvidia are investing in Skild AI, seeking to support …

AI training data provider Scale AI releases SEAL Leaderboards, which uses private datasets to rank LLMs in domains like coding, instruction following, and math