Tech companies desperately want to film you doing chores

This week, an AI training startup called Shift said it would clean New Yorkers' homes for free . It has plans to expand into other cities as well, including London, and looking around my flat, I get the appeal. But there's a catch. There's always a catch. In exchange for the cleaning, Shift wants footage of its cleaners at work: scrubbing dishes, wiping counters, dusting tables, mopping floors. It wants everything. Video of all the boring domestic labor we'd happily outsource if we could - and that robotics companies are racing to teach machines to do so they can sell us something to do it for us. That's harder than it sounds. Unlike cha … Read the full story at The Verge.