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''' THANKS* A.I. THEATRE '''

'' A JOBS BOOM - THANKS TO A.I. '' In an Indian city - workers find one aspect of tech that still needs a human touch. Evidence of A.I. boom often looks like the squat, windowless data centers that house acre after acre of hardware.

KARUR - INDIA : But near the southern tip of India, the city of Karur is teeming with signs of A.I.'s ascendency in human form.

Hundreds of tech lab workers clog the streets on coffee breaks late on any given weekday afternoon  -men and women in their 20s, corporate ID cards dangling from lanyards around their necks.

Others work afew hours a weekend from home, supplementing their income by strapping iPhones to their heads and pressing record while they chop-vegetables or make the bed.

They work in a fast-growing field of A.I. called data annotation, which - for the moment, at least - requires a human touch.

As the sentient backstop for artificial intelligence, data annotators help fix bugs and find blind spots in A.I. models, improving and refining the programs that steer your car, automate an assembly line and track inventory.

The work can be rote and less complex than what engineers train for in college, requiring hours in front of a screen to examine the video frame by frame.

But as A.I. capabilities change how companies design and produce products - making the jobs coding disappear for college graduates.

Data annotation is showing how countries like India, with entry level job shortages and large youth populations, are adapting.

Aiswarya Palaniswany, a 25-year-old with a master's degree in data analytics, found a job last year with the Karur-based Objectways Technologies, a data annotation firm whose clients are mainly American companies using A.I. in their products. Objectways employs 2,600 people - 300 of whom were hired in the last month.

'' There will always be data. There will always be information,'' Ms. Palaniswamy said, sounding confident she had found a job that would be resilient at a time when A.I. has automated jobs like payroll and data entry that workers in India used to fill.

She and her co-workers watch footage from products in the rapidly expanding physical A.I. space, including self-driving cars and humanoid robots, and note in each frame how well the A.I. model is performing its task.

Objectways' skilled entry-level office jobs pay around $210 to $260 a month - a comfortable salary in a small Indian city like Karur, with around 40,000 people.

The unskilled work of recording yourself at home pays $2.50 an hour for usable footage and is done on a freelance basis.

In India, finding steady employment for a rapidly growing population of young adults - some 2 million Indians turn 18 each month - is particularly pressing for Prime Minister Narandra Modi and his governing Bharatiya Janata Party.

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