AI’s new workforce: data-labelling industry spreads globally

AUTHOR: Madhumita Murgia Via FT.com (adapted & shortened repost) On the fringes of the Indian city of Kolkata, in the dusty, crowded neighbourhood of Metiabruz, 460 young women are working at the vanguard of artificial intelligence. The women, mostly from the local Muslim community, are helping to train computer vision algorithms used in autonomous vehicles…