The AI factory: the rewiring of India's tech industry | FT Film

Thirty years of growth in outsourced tech services has transformed India’s economy. However, AI’s expansion is forcing the tech sector to evolve. The FT’s Krishn Kaushik investigates whether data annotation to train AI models and humanoid robots is enough for India to thrive in the AI era

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00:00 What is India’s AI path?
01:22 Factory workers wear cameras to train robots
03:01 What is egocentric video data?
03:59 Homemaker wears camera to train robots
05:05 Who benefits from video data collection jobs?
06:19 The role of data annotation in building AI models
08:30 Bringing jobs to India’s smaller towns
10:35 India’s role in the global AI economy
11:25 India’s IT services sector and AI
13:51 AI is transforming India’s IT services sector
15:30 Tesco’s AI back office
17:40 India’s scramble to find a role in the AI economy

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