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Within the sixth season premiere of Netflix’s Black Mirror, a fictional streaming service named Streamberry makes use of synthetic intelligence to deepfake an actor’s likeness onto a double’s physique whereas creating an ongoing storyline crafted beat-by-beat after a lady’s life. Black Mirror is science fiction, however Netflix is getting dangerously near it—the streaming service is currently hiring a brand new AI supervisor place at a wage of a minimum of $300,000.
The official title of the place is Product Supervisor – Machine Studying Platform, and has a salary range listed for the California-based position with a minimal of $300,000 all the best way as much as $900,000. It might seem that Netflix doesn’t also have a clear concept of its plan for machine studying, as one of many key targets of the place is to “outline the strategic imaginative and prescient for [the machine learning platform].” {Qualifications} embody expertise working with a centralized machine studying platform, the power to collaborate with and lead Netflix’s engineers, and written communication and strategic considering abilities (no matter meaning).
“With greater than 230 million members in over 190 international locations, Netflix continues to form the way forward for leisure all over the world,” the job itemizing reads. “Machine Studying/Synthetic Intelligence is powering innovation in all areas of the enterprise. From serving to us purchase and create nice content material, serving to members select the precise title for them by personalization, to optimizing our fee processing and different revenue-focused initiatives.”
Netflix shouldn’t be precisely a stranger to synthetic intelligence and machine studying, however this seems to be one of many first occasions that Netflix has put lots of of 1000’s of {dollars} in somebody’s pockets to wrangle it. Prior to now, Netflix has deployed an algorithm that may change the thumbnails of its applications between customers primarily based on these customers viewing habits. On the identical time, Netflix employs a rudimentary AI to advocate content material, a lot the identical means a platform like Spotify would possibly. It’s not clear whether or not this Product Supervisor could be working with an AI on the backend, or in an utility nearer to manufacturing. Netflix didn’t instantly return our request for clarification.
AI in tv and movie is a hot-button subject proper now, as each the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Display screen Actors Guild (SAG) are concurrently on strike over the expertise, amongst different calls for. Each unions have been on strike for weeks—WGA went on strike on Might 1 whereas SAG went on Strike on July 13—and the Alliance of Movement Image and Tv Producers thought they’d quell the flames of the protesting SAG members with an ill-conceived resolution. The proposal would have studios paying a background actor a single day’s rate in exchange for scanning their face, which may very well be utilized by the studio nevertheless they please ceaselessly. WGA, meanwhile, is striking over the way studios plan to use chatbots as a way to cut back on human labor.
In the meantime, an actor’s common annual wage is someplace round $47,000 a yr. It’s good to see the place Netflix is placing its priorities.
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