AI Companies Want to Harvest Improv Actors' Skills to Train AI on Human Emotion
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TL;DR
- Handshake AI is recruiting actors, improvisers, and performers to train AI models on human emotion and interaction.
- The role requires the ability to authentically recognize, express, and shift between emotions.
- Companies like Handshake are scrambling to provide niche training data to improve AI models' understanding and fill knowledge gaps.
- The demand for specialized training data has surged, with companies employing professionals from various fields.
- Performers are concerned that training AI could accelerate the obsolescence of their own careers.
- The job offers flexible, part-time tasks with an average pay of $74 per hour, but concerns exist about pay consistency and task availability.
- Some in the improv community view the initiative as 'dystopian' and an attempt to generate AI-generated content.
- The development of multimodal AI, including voice interactions with realistic inflections, is driving the need for such training data.