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"Startup Empowers Rural India with AI Work for Google, Microsoft, and More"
social-impact2 years ago

"Startup Empowers Rural India with AI Work for Google, Microsoft, and More"

Karya, a not-for-profit enterprise, is empowering rural Indians to earn higher wages by creating quality data sets for companies like Microsoft and Google to train AI models. With workers spread across 100 districts in 22 states, Karya offers 20 times the minimum wage for simple dataset generation tasks. The platform enables workers to earn royalties from the sale of their data, providing a source of supplemental income. Founded by Manu Chopra, Karya aims to move 100 million rural Indians out of poverty by 2030.

Microsoft's Jugalbandi: The AI Chatbot for Rural India
technology2 years ago

Microsoft's Jugalbandi: The AI Chatbot for Rural India

Microsoft has launched a new AI-driven chatbot called 'Jugalbandi', designed for farmers and other users living in rural India. The chatbot will operate over the WhatsApp messaging service and aims to make information on government schemes accessible in multiple languages. Jugalbandi covers 10 of India's 22 official languages and 171 of a total of approximately 20,000 government programmes. The chatbot understands a user's exact problem in their language and then tries to deliver the right information reliably and cheaply, even if that exists in some other language in a database somewhere.