China's AI Boom Powered by Rural Workers
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In China's remote hinterlands, thousands of rural workers are labeling data to train artificial intelligence models. This work has become a key poverty-alleviation tool. These workers sit in computer rooms, tagging images and text to help AI systems recognize objects and language. The practice is turning less-developed regions into hubs for the country's AI industry.