Your dirty windows could help create AI-powered cleaning robots.<\/p>\n
Shift, an AI training startup, is offering free home cleanings in New York City<\/a>, it said on Thursday. There’s one catch: cleaners wear head-mounted cameras that record first-person footage while they scrub bathrooms, mop floors, and organize kitchens.<\/p>\n The company said the footage will help train household robots and AI systems to complete chores autonomously in the future.<\/p>\n “Your home. Cleaned for free,” the company says on its website, which advertises services ranging from laundry folding and dishwashing to fridge organization and bathroom scrubbing.<\/p>\n The offering is the latest example of the booming\u00a0AI training<\/a>\u00a0space. Companies, from startups to bigger players like Uber and LinkedIn, are trying to get in on the action. And while many of the jobs training AI focus on white-collar work, some, like Shift’s, attempt to train AI for physical tasks in the real world.<\/p>\n Shift said the training data generated from routine household tasks is valuable enough to subsidize the cleaning service entirely.<\/p>\n The startup said it operates across more than 15 countries and works with thousands of people to record videos for AI training. The company also has a form on its website for people interested in working for the service.<\/p>\n Shift said on its website that it protects customers’ privacy, “with any sensitive details blurred” in the video before the footage is used for AI training.<\/p>\n And don’t be ashamed if your apartment is particularly dirty, Shift says. In fact, grubbier might be better.<\/p>\n “More challenging cleaning environments can be especially useful,” an FAQ document posted on the company’s website reads.<\/p>\n “That said, cleaners may decline any specific task they are not comfortable performing.”<\/p>\n Do you have a story to share? Contact this reporter at abitter@businessinsider.com<\/a> or via encrypted messaging app Signal at 808-854-4501. Use a personal email address, a nonwork WiFi network, and a nonwork device; here’s our guide to sharing information securely<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your dirty windows could help create AI-powered cleaning robots. Shift, an AI training startup, is offering free home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3250,96865,22001,96868,96866,62173,1704,96869,96867,9,56,63,65,64,1232,96870,13663,96864,1115,90473],"class_list":["post-247879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-ai","tag-ai-training-startup","tag-bathroom","tag-big-player","tag-camera-footage","tag-cleaner","tag-company","tag-dishwashing","tag-fridge-organization","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-people","tag-physical-task","tag-service","tag-shift","tag-video","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}