Homemakers and street vendors in India are personally training future AI robots that will be able to skillfully perform daily tasks like humans.
They are wearing smartphones and video glasses on their heads, recording videos of household chores from mango peeling to flower arranging and everything in between.
By simply providing these simple daily activity videos, they are earning good income of up to 250 rupees (approximately 2.6 dollars) per hour.
Major global technology companies are incorporating egocentric data—the personal actions of humans—into specialized AI models and having robots mimic them, in addition to digital data, so that AI systems can work in the real world.
Because of this, India has become a major hub for processing global AI data, and experts estimate that by 2050, there will be over one thousand humanoid robots in the world.
However, there is a concerning reality behind this technological trend. The process of training these robots is essentially transferring the jobs of future workers to machines.
Experts warn that the replacement of these automated systems could pose a significant challenge not only to office workers, but also to the future employment of over 490 million unskilled laborers who are the driving force of India's economy.
Ref: Aljazeera
