For the “teachers” of India, this hard and monotonous work is the best way to improve their lives.

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Editor’s note: There is no doubt that the field of artificial intelligence is undergoing rapid development and progress every day. However, in many countries around the world, including China, there is an emerging profession that you may not know. They are responsible for teaching artificial intelligence systems. They are the most lovely people in the group. Some people call them digital Foxconn “first-line workers.” This translation from the New York Times article, the original title is A.I. Is Learning From Humans. Many Humans, author Cade Metz in the article introduced the relevant stories of this industry. This is the middle of this series, which introduces the story of this emerging profession in India, and in the next part of this series, it will introduce the story of this emerging profession in North America.

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Employees leave the location of iMerit’s Bhubaneshwar branch. Image source: Rebecca Conway for The New York Times

City of the Temple

Bhubaneshwar, the capital of Orissa, is known as the “City of Temples”. In the roadside market southwest of the city, ancient Indian temples with giant stone towers are piled up along the road. These temples can be traced back to around 1000 AD. On the main roads of the city, many pavements are not paved with stone bricks. In the center of the road, in addition to motorcycles, cars and trucks, there are cows and wild dogs that come and go.

Bhubaneswar has a population of approximately 830,000 and is also a rapidly growing digital workforce. From the temple, you can reach the paved road close to the city centre in about 15 minutes. On this road, a four-story white building is situatedBehind a wall. In this building, there are three rooms filled with long rows of tables, and each room’s desk is equipped with a neat and tightly discharged computer display. This is where Praden works every day.

Puradan, 24, grew up in the suburbs outside the city. She studied biology and other subjects at a local vocational college and came to work at iMerit after graduation. Her job is recommended to her by her brother who has been working at iMerit. On the usual working day, Pradang lives in a youth hostel near the company. Every weekend, she will take the bus home.

I went to the office where Pradane was in January this year, when the climate was mild. Most of the female employees on the scene wore traditional Indian costumes – bright red sari and long gold earrings. On the same day, Pradhan wore a green long-sleeved shirt with black pants and white lace-up shoes. At the time, she was tagging a video message for a US customer.

In the eight hours of work day after day, the 24-year-old shy woman will watch more than a dozen colonoscopy videos and keep playing back, carefully observing the content of each frame.

Every time, Pradang can find what she is looking for, and then she will mark them out with the number “border box”. She drew hundreds of such border boxes, along with information such as polyps and other disease characteristics, such as blood clots and inflammation.

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Namita Pradhan (second from right) works with colleagues. Image source: Rebecca Conway for The New York Times

Puradan’s client at the time was a company in the United States. iMerit asked her not to disclose the customer’s name. According to the content that Pradane teaches to the artificial intelligence system, the customer can finally combine the system to identify various medical conditions. Patients who receive colonoscopy in the video may not necessarily know the existence of this video. Pradan does not know where they come from. Of course, iMerit doesn’t know either.

During a seven-day online video call, Pradhan learned this task with an inexperienced doctor from Oakland, California. The doctor also participated in the training of many employees of iMerits branches. But some people are qualitative