Powering the AI Industry with Humans in the Loop Workforce with Iva Gumnishka
Plus, how I do Intermittent Fasting
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Hello from Eric in Bucharest, Romania.
In this issue: how I do intermittent fasting the entire day, how to wrap up a charging cable, something cool happening in Japan, Humans in the Loop founder Iva Gumnishka, and more!
Some cool stuff:
🧩 Every piece of everything we use. Visually interesting.
🇯🇵 Random trip tickets, where your destination is determined by lottery, are picking up steam in Japan (reminds me of when I used to work for an airline and would just go to the airport and see which flights I could get on 😆)
🪢 How to effectively wrap a charging cable
🎬 Cool site to watch hand-picked cinema
⏱️ I saved 5 hours last week with this Warren Buffett life hack (LinkedIn post)
Intermittent Fasting
I have no problem going the entire day without eating more than 300 calories until dinner. I just need some coffee and lots of sparkling water. Another secret…..I eat half a banana combined with some peanuts or almonds around lunch time. 😉
Innovators Can Laugh with Iva Gumnishka
I knew very little about the field of AI data annotation until I chatted with Iva Gumnishka, co-founder of Humans in the Loop. Humans in the loop is a social enterprise that provides ethical human in the loop workforce solutions to power the AI industry.
Many companies that advertise their products as AI driven are not entirely AI driven. Some of them have real people working in the background to answer or do things machines are not capable of.
If you’re interested in AI and want to know how we can use a more human centric approach so that AI doesn’t displace us, this is the episode for you!
Highlights:
0:00 – Eric speaks Bulgarian 😆 🇧🇬
2:10 – Google fires AI engineer
4:05 – stereotypes around AI
5:40 – Foxomation and ghost work
8:00 – Ghost workers in Colombia
10:17 – Why it’s a good idea for companies to keep using humans
11:30 – the opportunity Humans in the Loop provides
13:03 – how and where they recruit people
14:25 – hardest obstacle to overcome
18:03 - what Iva has read lately that has changed her perspective on AI
20:18 – AI in the home
22:16 – best advice Iva received from her dad
Startup Event in Bucharest
I had a wonderful time last week at the in-person event hosted by the Founders Institute here in Bucharest. I got to meet Alex M. Dascalu, Marius-Eugen Rogoz, Razvan CRACIUNESCU, Irina RAICU, PhD, Dan Mihaescu and several other fascinating people in the Startup space. 🚀
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The End
I’m so excited the kids are back in school so I can get non-interrupted work (aside from those surprise eMag deliveries my wife places) from 8:30 - 5:00pm. This past week I saw an air show in Bucharest, drank lots of whiskey (my brother-in-law is a whiskey connoisseur), met lots of cool people at a Founders Institute event, and learned I’ve been holding my backhand grip on my tennis racket all wrong. It was a fun week!
Let’s go kick some butt. Have a great weekend.
🤠 Eric Melchor
P.S Do you or your company have some exciting milestones you want to share, please send them directly to me and I’ll have a look and maybe include them in the newsletter. Thanks! :-)