Powering the AI Industry with Humans in the Loop Workforce with Iva Gumnishka
I knew very little about the field of AI data annotation until I chatted with Iva Gumnishka, co-founder of Humans in the Loop. Humans in the loop is a social enterprise that provides ethical human in the loop workforce solutions to power the AI industry.
Many companies that advertise their products as AI-driven are not entirely AI-driven. Some of them have real people working in the background to answer or do things machines are not capable of.
If you’re interested in AI and want to know how we can use a more human-centric approach so that AI doesn’t displace us, this is the episode for you!
Highlights:
0:00 – Eric speaks Bulgarian
2:10 – Google fires AI engineer
4:05 – stereotypes around AI
5:40 – Foxomation and ghost work
8:00 – Ghost workers in Colombia
10:17 – Why it’s a good idea for companies to keep using humans
11:30 – the opportunity Humans in the Loop provides
13:03 – how and where they recruit people
14:25 – hardest obstacle to overcome
18:03 -what Iva has read lately that has changed her perspective on AI
20:18 – AI in the home
22:16 – best advice Iva received from her dad
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Past guests on Innovators Can Laugh include Yannik Veys, Ovi Negrean, Arnaud Belinga, Csaba Zajdó, Dagobert Renouf, Andrei Zinkevich, Viktorija Cijunskyte, Lukas Kaminskis, Pija Indriunaite, Monika Paule, PhD, Vytautas Zabulis, Leon van der Laan, Ieva Vaitkevičiūtė.
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