This company wants to clean your house for free, to train AI and robots
Shift has announced a unique initiative to clean homes for free while recording the process. This effort aims to gather data to train artificial intelligence and robots. Participants will receive complimentary cleaning services in exchange for allowing the company to film the cleaning process.
- ▪Shift will clean users' houses for free.
- ▪The company will record videos of the cleaning process.
- ▪This initiative is intended to help train AI and robots.
5 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 19 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Startup offers free home cleaning–if it can record it all for robot training — Ars Technica
- ▪ AI startup Shift launches a free home cleaning service in NYC to record first-person video with a camera-equipped cap and use it to train robots (Robert Hart/The Verge) — Techmeme
- ▪ This AI startup will clean your home for free to train future robots — The Verge
- ▪ Shift Offers Free NYC Cleaning to Train Household Robots — X (formerly Twitter)
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