Re: A Godfather of AI Just Won a Nobel. He Has Been Warning the Machines Could Take Over the World.

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Le 19-10-2024, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> a écrit :

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I'd mentioned in another post that image recognition requires a huge
amount of labeled images for training. Nothing like outsourcing it to
Africa. I wonder if an Kenyan princes were able to exploit the data?

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The purpose is not for the Kenyan princes to exploit the data, but as
you said, it "requires a huge amount of labeled images". So to label
images, it needs people. It doesn't need very expensive educated people,
it only requires people. So, the less expensive the guys, the better.
That's why they do it in Africa.

Plus Musk has buddies there :-)

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