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Leila Janah
Founder & CEO
Samasource
Bio
Leila Janah is the Founder and CEO of Samasource and the Co-Founder and CEO of LXMI, two companies that share a common social mission to end global poverty by giving work to people in need. She is also the co-author of America's Moment: Creating Opportunity in the Connected Age, a book by Rework America: A Markle Initiative. Leila is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, a Director of CARE USA, a 2012 TechFellow, recipient of the inaugural Club de Madrid Young Leadership Award, and the youngest person to win a Heinz Award in 2014. She also received the Secretary’s Innovation Award for the Empowerment of Women and Girls from Hillary Clinton in 2012.
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  • Better Algorithms, Better Lives; Alleviating Poverty Through Training Data
    03:50 PM - 04:10 PM Jun 1
    Think that tech advances will always result in job automation and leaving behind those without opportunity? People may not realize that artificial intelligence is still powered by human intelligence- advances in AI can actually create jobs: think of training data. Producing quality training data is critical in ensuring the AI experience works, but expertly annotating hundreds of thousands of images necessary to create quality algorithms requires massive human effort. However, outsourcing this work through traditional channels misses a major opportunity-- the chance to impact lives. Instead, let's connect the 1.3 billion people living in extreme poverty around the world to cutting-edge innovation in the AR space. Let’s leverage the talent pool of global human intelligence to advance technology sustainably. Let’s ensure our automated cars and VR headsets don’t isolate but instead connect us more deeply to each other.
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