During his ongoing visit to India, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has today tweeted to praise the country¡¯s villagers for helping the tech giant develop AI (artificial intelligence) tools. The billionaire is currently in India this week.
"Great to be in India this week meeting with changemakers like the team at Karya, who are doing the critical work of building high-quality datasets for AI¡ªand expanding economic opportunity at the same time," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella posted on X (formerly Twitter) today.
Satya Nadella's tweet?refers to the social impact organisation Karya in Maharashtra's Kharadi, whose members lend their voice to Microsoft to train AI models in Marathi. Karya, which in Sanskrit means ¡°work that gives you dignity,¡± Karya describes itself as the ¡°world¡¯s foremost ethical data company.¡±?
"In India, if you don¡¯t speak Hindi or English, it can be difficult to access technology that helps people thrive -apps, tools, and digital assistants that English and Hindi speakers take for granted. The fact that hundreds of millions of potential customers could benefit from those technologies is why Microsoft and others are in a race to make their products available in those 'under-resourced' languages," Microsoft stated.
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Karya had got its start as a Microsoft Research project in Bengaluru in 2017.?
By just reading text aloud in his/her native language, Indian villagers are using this app to earn hourly wage.?As per Microsoft, Karya pays workers about $5 an hour, which is far above the minimum wage in India.?The money lands into the worker's bank account in just a few hours after the work is done. Click here to know more about Karya.
After?starting as a Microsoft Research project in Bengaluru in 2017, it became clear that Karya had enormous potential, both as a creator of high-quality language datasets in India¡¯s many languages and as a way to help lift rural Indians out of poverty with education and income. The project was spun off in 2021 as an organization independent of Microsoft. Its entire operation, including the app that workers use to record and write in their native languages is built on Microsoft Azure and uses Azure OpenAI Service, as well as Azure AI Cognitive Services to validate its data. Microsoft is one of its major clients.
By the year 2030,?Karya aims to reach 100 million people.
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