
ALT A young woman sitting in front of a computer in an office while another woman standing next to her is pointing at something on her screen. They are both dressed in casual clothes - a bright blue top and furry waistcoat, and a denim jacket. Data annotation is becoming a professional field of its own, with many annotators working on it as full-time employees, following complex guidelines, and using a variety of different tools and platforms. What used to be considered 'menial' and 'low-skilled' work, is today a nascent field with its own complexities and skills requirements, which involves extensive training and specializing in different modalities: video labellin, medical imagery labellin, 3D LiDar labellin, and so on. It is important to recognize the value that data annotators bring and their expertise. Picture Nacho Kamenov & Humans in the Loop / Better Images of AI / A trainer instructing a data annotator on how to label images / CC-BY 4.0















