Self-driving car companies depend on cheap labor from Venezuela

In order to teach a car to drive itself, its artificial intelligence needs to be presented with thousands of examples of things it might encounter on the road: pedestrians about to cross a street, for instance, or specific street signs. Now, with economic turmoil in Venezuela that left many impoverished, companies that gather and label this training data for self-driving car developers are relying on cheap labor from the South American country, according to MIT Technology Review.

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