Why AI is being trained in rural India
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Virudhunagar, a town in southeastern India, can boast temples that date back thousands of years. But not far from those ancient sites, people are working on the latest tech - artificial intelligence. One of those is Mohan Kumar. "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.
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