Scale, founded in 2016 by then-19-year-old Alexandr Wang, was valued in 2021 at $7.3 billion, making him what Forbes called “the youngest self-made billionaire,”
I never thought about how much money you could make in the AI business, it's crazy.
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These failures, called “edge cases,” can have serious consequences. In 2018, an Uber self-driving test car killed a woman because, though it was programmed to avoid cyclists and pedestrians, it didn’t know what to make of someone walking a bike across the street.
You would think something labeled test would be tested somewhere where there is no possibility for casualties, this could've been prevented if they tested every possible outcome
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The problem was that it would take decades and millions of dollars for her team of undergrads to label that many photos.
I never thought about how much money and how long it would take to get that many photos, I just assumed AI stole the photos off of the internet it's self.
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Much of the public response to language models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT has focused on all the jobs they appear poised to automate. But behind even the most impressive AI system are people — huge numbers of people labeling data to train it and clarifying data when it gets confused.
I never thought about how AI would offer jobs while still taking other ones away. By making something like writing AI, it may take a writers job but it gives jobs to a lot of other people.
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