The Invisible Workforce that Makes AI Possible

<p>We all love a good chatbot, some nice AI art, and a pleasant automated system. Artificial intelligence is here and these fancy decision trees are supposed to make our lives easier everyday without a human ever having to lift a finger.</p><br><p>Except that’s not exactly true. AIs require an incredible amount of human input to train; AI art doesn’t make nightmares reality without scanning over millions of human-made images; and Meta’s content didn’t learn how to moderate itself with a human first telling it what to look for.</p><br><p>So who are these people who teach AI and why do we never hear about them?</p><br><p>On today’s episode of Cyber, Motherboard writer Chloe Xiang will help us answer that question.</p><br><p><strong>Stories discussed in this episode:</strong></p><br><p><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxnaqz/ai-isnt-artificial-or-intelligent" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>AI Isn’t Artificial or Intelligent</strong></a></p><br><p><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/93ad75/isis-executions-and-non-consensual-porn-are-powering-ai-art" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>ISIS Executions and Non-Consensual Porn Are Powering AI Art</strong></a></p><br><p><strong>We’re recording CYBER live on</strong><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/motherboardtv" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong> Twitch</strong></a><strong> and</strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/motherboard" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong> YouTube</strong></a><strong>. Watch live during the week.</strong><a href="https://www.twitch.tv/motherboardtv/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong> Follow us</strong></a><strong> there to get alerts when we go live. We take questions from the audience and yours might just end up on the show.</strong></p><br><p><strong>Subscribe to</strong><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cyber/id1441708044?mt=2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong> CYBER on Apple Podcasts</strong></a><strong> or wherever you li