India’s data labellers are powering the global AI race

“They work on some of our most cutting-edge image-related projects,” says Jai Natarajan, vice president of technology and marketing at iMerit, an India- and US-based data annotation company, which is to say its employees are engaged in labelling and preparing data to train AI algorithms. As the first generation of such work that was mainly crowdsourced gave way to more advanced requirements, companies such as Infolks, iMerit and Playment have come up catering to global clients and making India an emerging hub for data labelling and annotation work. Data annotators or labellers will go through the dataset of images and mark or highlight road signs using annotation tools and feed this to an AI algorithm to learn from.

Source: factordaily.com