Inside Mindrift: Collaboration, Community, and the Future of AI
Roles and more
April 25, 2024
By
Mindrift Team
The Mindrift platform connects professionals from various fields—writers, linguists, educators, finance specialists, and more—with AI projects that need human expertise.
Unlike traditional artificial intelligence work, this isn’t about coding. Instead, our experts help train AI by creating and improving content to make AI models more accurate, useful, and trustworthy in various fields of knowledge.
In short, our community is the human intelligence behind the machines.
Although Mindrift is new, our team has been shaping AI technologies for over a decade, collaborating with industry leaders to improve how AI understands and interacts with the world.
Let’s take a look at how we plan to change the game of generative AI, what we’re already doing, and help you get to know us better.
On a mission to help AI learn from human expertise
The rapid rise of AI models that try to mimic human intelligence, answer questions, and generate content has sparked both excitement and concern. While some professionals worry about AI’s impact on their fields, there’s also an opportunity: these models need human workers to function effectively.
At Mindrift, we focus on making AI more helpful, reliable, and responsible.
Our contributors—specialists from diverse industries—write, refine, and evaluate content that AI learns from. Instead of copying human language patterns, AI needs structured input to ensure it provides natural, accurate, and well-reasoned responses.
This work happens across many areas. A linguist can refine AI’s multilingual capabilities. A legal expert could review how AI explains legal concepts. Writers and editors play a role in shaping AI-generated text so that it sounds natural and meaningful.
No matter the specialty, these contributions are essential in building better AI. And the best part? Mindrift makes it possible to contribute remotely, on a flexible basis, and get paid for your expertise.
Where we came from
Mindrift is a community created by the team at Toloka, a well-established data partner in the Generative AI market. Toloka has been driving the AI industry with high-quality data solutions for over a decade.
It serves enterprises and startups as a trusted data partner for every facet of AI development, from training to evaluation. Toloka’s technology is the foundation behind leading LLMs, search and e-commerce engines, virtual assistants, GenAI apps, and more.
Toloka is committed to providing the highest data quality to power safe and responsible AI. This is made possible by a global team of 200+ professionals.
Working with Toloka, and now Mindrift, has opened doors for individuals around the world to contribute to safe, reliable and responsible AI development while fostering personal and professional growth.
What makes Mindrift different?
Our experience at Toloka helped us realize we needed structured resources within specific domains and a way to operationalize collaboration to take data generation to the next level.
Collaboration
We created Mindrift to meet the ever-increasing demand for expert-generated data. Mindrift offers a way for specialized experts to contribute their skills to AI development and serves as a place to meet like-minded professionals.
Collaboration is at the heart of Mindrift. We bring together skilled professionals and innovative clients to contribute to specialized AI projects—on a flexible basis, without rigid schedules or location requirements.
We also promote community by providing spaces for experts to connect, opportunities to contribute to our blog and social channels, and other ways to get involved!
Community
AI training often relies on random, unverified data from the internet. Mindrift takes a different approach. Instead of crowdsourcing from anonymous sources, we curate a network of professionals who bring real-world knowledge to AI development.
One way we’re doing this is by building a network of skilled experts interested in the AI industry. Our network consists of various unique domains, from mathematics to law to foreign languages.!
We’re also building a community of likeminded individuals on LinkedIn and Discord—join us for exciting updates, industry news, networking opportunities, and engaging conversations.
The future of AI
Let’s go back to the skepticism surrounding AI for a second. One of the biggest conversations surrounding this technology is: is it going to help us or harm us?
At Mindrift, we believe in the future of AI—and it looks like the corporate world agrees. In the most recent McKinsey report on AI, 78% of respondents say their organizations use AI. The same report shows that almost half of respondents claim inaccuracy is the biggest AI-related problem for organizations.
The solution? Training accurate, ethical, responsible, and reliable AI systems based on high-quality data—and that’s exactly what we do, with your help!
Browse domains, apply, and join our talent pool. Get paid when projects in your expertise arise.
Be the “I” in AI
Many professionals curious about AI wonder how they can contribute. At Mindrift, the process is simple.
First, you apply and complete a short assessment to demonstrate your expertise in your field. This step ensures that contributors have the necessary knowledge to work on AI training projects. Once you pass, you become part of a talent pool—a network of specialists who are first in line for relevant AI projects.
If a project in your domain becomes available, you’ll receive an invitation to participate and go through a project introduction. If no projects are open, you remain in the pool and will be notified when opportunities arise.
Joining Mindrift doesn’t always mean instant access to projects. Instead, it’s an opportunity to be considered for specialized tasks as they become available. When a new opportunity aligns with your expertise, you can choose to participate and contribute on your own terms.
By maintaining a network of verified experts, Mindrift ensures that AI is trained using knowledge from real professionals—not just random internet data.
Explore our current opportunities to see where you fit in and apply today!
Article by
Mindrift Team
