News Summary

• Startups are paying people for the real-world data needed to train their robots.
• This week, an AI training startup called Shift said it would clean New Yorkers’ homes for free.
• Shift wants footage of its cleaners at work: scrubbing dishes, wiping counters, dusting tables, mopping floors.
• It wants video of all the boring domestic labor we’d happily outsource if we could — and that robotics companies are racing to teach machines to do so they can sell us something to do it for us.