Unless you've been paying particularly close attention to the tech industry lately, you may have missed one of the many wrinkles in the "artificial intelligence" story: data labeling. In machine learning — a type of algorithm which "learns" by recognizing patterns — data labeling is the process of annotating, well, data, like written text, audio, or video, to be feed to the algorithm to reinforce its predictive chops. Fueling the multi-billion dollar AI industry is a vast army of remote contract workers, often from underdeveloped countries like the Philippines, Pakistan, Kenya, and India. Most data labelers are typically over-worked and […]