Startup Offers Free Home Cleaning—if It Can Record It All for Robot Training
The startup says the footage will help train robots and other AI systems, and the free service is available for a limited time.
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Startup offers free home cleaning—if it can record it all for robot training
A tech startup is offering New York City residents free home cleaning with a twist—it will send “professional cleaners” wearing cameras to record everything they do. All that data will supposedly be used to train AI-driven robots. The unusual pitch comes from the German startup MicroAGI, whose website describes the company as a “team of engineers, researchers, and operators on a mission to accelerate embodied AI.” It began publicizing the free h…
This AI startup will clean your home for free to train future robots
AI training startup Shift wants to clean your home for free. The catch - because, despite what its website says, there's always a catch - is that it will record cleaners as they scrub, vacuum, dust, tidy, and wash, and use that footage to train robots. Shift announced the unusual offer on social media on Thursday, explaining that the value of the training data generated from the cleanings is more than enough to fund the service. As its website p…
The project, which has begun in New York, brings home cleaners wearing special glasses or helmets that record in the first person how they clean, order and organize Read
Tech companies desperately want to film you doing chores
This week, an AI training startup called Shift said it would clean New Yorkers’ homes for free. It has plans to expand into other cities as well, including London, and looking around my flat, I get the appeal. But there’s a catch. There’s always a catch. In exchange for the cleaning, Shift wants footage of its cleaners at work: scrubbing dishes, wiping counters, dusting tables, mopping floors. It wants everything. Video of all the boring domes…
This company wants to clean your house for free, to train AI and robots
TL;DR Shift is a US company that’s offering to clean houses in NYC for free, and in exchange it will record videos of the process. It will use the recordings to create and license AI training data. The company also has plans to expand across the globe and offer additional free services. How would you like to get your home cleaned by professionals without having to spend a single dollar? Sounds too good to be true, right? It kind of is, but it’s…
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