IDG Contributor Network: How microtasking is fueling a surge in AI growth for self-driving vehicles

People think of autonomous vehicles as incredibly powerful, automatic machines, but the software that guides those machines is programmed by individual people in a manual effort. Wersquo;re spoiled with technology that seems borderline magical, but even the AI programs that manage to learn on their own started out in the hands of human beings.This manual effort is part of whatrsquo;s slowing down the progress of self-driving cars (along with slow regulatory progress and logistical hurdles), but a new approachmdash;microtaskingmdash;might offer a solution to the problem.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here