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Why AI startups are taking data into their own hands | TechCrunch
"We woke up, did our regular routine, and then strapped the cameras on our head and synced the times together,"
"Then we would make our breakfast and clean the dishes. Then we'd go our separate ways and work on art."
"It would give you headaches," she said. "You take it off and there's just a red square on your forehead."
"We are doing it for so many different kinds of blue-collar work, so that we have a diversity of data in the pre-training phase,"
Taylor and her roommate wore GoPro cameras strapped to their foreheads for a week while painting, sculpting, and doing household chores. Footage was synchronized to provide multiple angles on the same behaviors. The job required five hours of synced footage per day but effectively demanded seven hours to allow breaks and physical recovery. The head-mounted cameras caused headaches and left a red square mark on the forehead. Turing Labs contracted artists, chefs, construction workers, and electricians to collect first‑person video. The company trains a vision model exclusively on video to develop visual reasoning and sequential problem‑solving and aims for a diverse pretraining dataset so models learn how tasks are performed.
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