data labeling

reports that Uber has started farming out independent contractors for data-labeling services as well as coders-for-hire.Uber describes its new Scaled Solutions division as a platform of “analysts, testers and independent data operators,” according to . Scaled Solutions began life as an internal team, handling “large-scale annotation tasks” for Uber’s other services. Now it’s been expanded to provide coders and data labelers for outside companies like Pokémon Go developer Niantic Inc. and the self-driving trucking software firm Aurora Innovations. Aurora acquired Uber’s self-driving unit in 2020 and Uber is one of Aurora’s investors.Uber started recruiting workers this month for its Scaled…