Remotasks was founded in 2017 by Scale.ai, a company based in San Francisco, USA that helps their client companies accelerate their AI applications by providing human-powered data.
Remotasks is a micro-job website where you can earn online doing different tasks. Named from combining the words "remote" and "tasks", this website is open to anyone from most parts of the world who can do tasks such as image tagging, object categorization, lidar annotation, video transcription & others. However, their main focus is more on lidar tasks.
One example of a lidar task is to identify vehicles, pedestrians, street lights and anything that can be found on the street. You draw boxes on objects or persons, you categorize & label them.
The result of these tasks helped car companies for example to develop a modern car with radar features.
No worries though, they provide written courses & video tutorials that can help you learn about the tasks before you start doing them. Pay rate is $1-2 per hour for simple tasks depending on your accuracy. If you have some mistakes, you'll receive less than a dollar. On the other hand, pay rate is higher for LIDAR annotation.
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