Inside the race to train robots on human work

A private chef prepared a three-course meal in a San Francisco apartment while wearing a camera on his baseball cap to record the event. The chef was provided through Shift, the data-collection arm of German startup Microagi, which offers free private chefs in exchange for first-person footage of their work. Shift paid the chef his usual rate of $100 to $150 per person for the service. The initiative is part of a global effort to collect data on how humans perform physical tasks to train AI systems.

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