The Booming Business of Turning Human Experts Into AI Trainers
Silicon Valley startup Micro1 is signing up everyone from police officers to nuclear scientists to teach LLMs.
BY VARSHA BANSAL, FREELANCE WRITER
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Last year, when Soren Eustis, a chemist with a PhD and several years of teaching experience, was scouring LinkedIn, he noticed a “huge explosion of AI jobs,” including roles for chemists to train LLMs. The idea of applying for a role that could potentially train an AI to replace his career was off-putting at first.........
