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Jimenez: x.ai uses human AI trainers for QA and data annotation

Marcos Jimenez · Dennis Mortensen and Marcos Jimenez, x.ai // Your AI-powered Virtual Assistant · Nov 20, 2014 · at 6:29

Marcos Jimenez, Chief Data Scientist at x.ai, explains the role of human operators in the loop for their AI assistant, Amy.

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“Humans right now are, they're not really taking over. They're not really acting as scheduling assistants. What they're acting as is What we call AI trainers. So they're sort of like overlooking what the machine is guessing, so they're doing a lot of, ah, you know, QA, but they're also, in those instances where the machine guesses something wrong, they're annotating things and they're letting the machine know that, hey, that was wrong, you know, retrain, learn.”

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