"'Prison labor' is usually associated with physical work, but inmates at two prisons in Finland are doing a new type...
Originally shared by Wayne Radinsky
"'Prison labor' is usually associated with physical work, but inmates at two prisons in Finland are doing a new type of labor: classifying data to train artificial intelligence algorithms for a startup."
"People need to read through hundreds of thousands of business articles scraped from the internet and label whether, for example, an article is about Apple the tech company or a fruit company that has 'apple' in the name."
"That's no problem for articles in English: Vainu simply set up an Amazon Mechanical Turk account to have people do these small tasks. But Mechanical Turk is 'not really that useful when you want to do something [with the] Finnish language."
https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/28/18285572/prison-labor-finland-artificial-intelligence-data-tagging-vainu
"'Prison labor' is usually associated with physical work, but inmates at two prisons in Finland are doing a new type of labor: classifying data to train artificial intelligence algorithms for a startup."
"People need to read through hundreds of thousands of business articles scraped from the internet and label whether, for example, an article is about Apple the tech company or a fruit company that has 'apple' in the name."
"That's no problem for articles in English: Vainu simply set up an Amazon Mechanical Turk account to have people do these small tasks. But Mechanical Turk is 'not really that useful when you want to do something [with the] Finnish language."
https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/28/18285572/prison-labor-finland-artificial-intelligence-data-tagging-vainu
Can you trust them? They're in jail. Presumably for a reason.
ReplyDeleteJyoti Q Dahiya the same reaction I had.. they can train the AI wrong on purpose..
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