Labelling AI programs is an important part of training machine learning models for applications such as driverless cars. Workers from countries like India and Sri Lanka, and workers from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk platform, are two sources of labour for this task. The primary advantage of using Indian or Sri Lankan labellers lies in cost-efficiency, while Amazon’s Mechanical Turk provides a diverse pool of workers from various backgrounds and the flexibility to choose tasks that suit their skill-sets. MTurk also has integrated quality control mechanisms to ensure that work output is of a reasonable standard.
