The Human Army Using Phones to Teach AI to Drive

The Human Army Using Phones to Teach AI to Drive
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As her fellow patients read dog-eared magazines or swipe through Instagram, Shari Forrest opens an app on her phone and gets busy training artificial intelligence.

Forrest isn't an engineer or programmer. She writes textbooks for a living. But when the 54-year-old from suburban St. Louis needs a break or has a free moment, she logs on to Mighty AI, and whiles away her time identifying pedestrians and trash cans and other things you don't want driverless cars running into. “If I am sitting waiting for a doctor's appointment and I can make a few pennies, that's not a bad deal,” she says.

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