The Invisible Workforce that Makes AI Possible

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

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.

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.

So who are these people who teach AI and why do we never hear about them?

On today’s episode of Cyber, Motherboard writer Chloe Xiang will help us answer that question.

Stories discussed in this episode:

AI Isn’t Artificial or Intelligent

ISIS Executions and Non-Consensual Porn Are Powering AI Art

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0:00.0	Tadmin's got the code it's going to launch.
0:10.3	It's a unit system.
0:12.7	I know this.
0:14.8	It's how all the files of the whole park.
0:17.0	It tells you everything.
0:18.7	Sir, he's uploading the virus.
0:21.5	Eagle One. The package is being delivered.
0:25.4	Hello out there on the internet.
0:27.6	I am Matthew Galt, and this is Cyber.
0:30.3	We all love a good chatbot, some nice AI art, and a pleasant automated system.
0:36.4	Artificial intelligence is here, and these fancy decision trees are making our lives easier
0:40.5	every day without a human ever having to lift a finger.
0:44.7	Except, that's not exactly true.
0:47.7	AIs require an incredible amount of human input to train.
0:50.9	A.I.R.
0:51.4	It doesn't make nightmare reality without scanning over millions of human-made
0:54.9	images, and meta's content didn't learn how to moderate itself without a human first telling it
1:01.3	what to look for. So, who are these people who teach AI, and why do we never hear about them?
1:09.2	With us here today to answer that question is motherboard writer Chloe Shaw.
1:12.9	It's the subject of her new feature, AI isn't artificial or intelligent.
1:17.6	Chloe, thank you so much for coming onto the show and walking us through this.
1:21.4	Yeah, thank you so much for having me.
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