generativeai

text to video models need training data in form of videos and captions (prompts)

austen was one of paul g's favourite ceo

Looks like scale introduced new labor hiring site (other than remotasks.com): https://outlier.ai/ Interesting jobs to train generative AI models. Interesting comments here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linkedin/comments/1989kbz/scale_ai_...

jobs here: https://boards.greenhouse.io/outlier

Follow the money

Great work boys

Sound like the company has not invented here syndrome. Maps is largely solved problem. Mapbox has a great product that is customizable.

Perhaps the company could better spend their R&D to focus on products that directly imoroves it's market share and revenue.

Looks like Labelbox is doing something with GPT models...https://labelbox.com/blog/few-shot-learning-and-zero-shot-le...

While Scale is very good at marketing, I wonder if companies using scale ai genuinely understand how their data is being labeled. They have been completely obfuscating that they primarily do crowdsourcing through https://remotasks.com/. The brand of remotasks is entirely different than scale ai for apparent reasons. I don't think major companies would opt in for crowdsourcing if they knew it. There are plenty of managed labeling service providers who provide a guarantee that the labelers come to a facility without phones to label data. There's a reason why they exist.

they hire cleared labelers in st louis. The software likely needs to run on-premises or in government networks

Their gov business is questionable for long-term sustainment. Labeling services are akin to transcription services provided by others like Leidos... its not a technology business. Got contracts through political connections...

there's a major turnover in their federal team...

Says the guy who sold products to the Chinese company (Baidu) and tried to sell more to china in the early days. Such hypocrisy. http://web.archive.org/web/20190805191959/https://scale.com/