DoorDash launches a new ‘Tasks’ app that pays couriers to submit videos to train AI

Why it matters

This initiative highlights a novel approach to data acquisition for AI training, leveraging a large, distributed workforce of gig economy workers. By incentivizing couriers to generate diverse video datasets, DoorDash can potentially improve AI models for tasks like visual recognition, language processing, and understanding real-world scenarios, which could have broader applications beyond their core delivery business.