Why AI is being trained in rural India
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“My role is in AI annotation. I collect data from various sources, label it, and train AI models so they can recognize and predict objects. Over time, the models become semi-supervised and can make decisions on their own,” he says.
India has long been a centre for outsourced IT support, with cities like Bangalore or Chennai being traditional hubs for such work.
But in recent years firms have been moving that work into much more remote areas, where costs for staff and space are lower.
The trend is know as cloud farming, and AI has given it another boost with numerous towns, like Virudhunagar, hosting firms working on AI.
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