1. Taylor, an artist, spent a week filming her daily activities with GoPro cameras for Turing Labs, an AI company. The footage was used to train an AI vision model that focuses on sequential problem-solving and visual reasoning, rather than creating art.

2. Companies like Turing and Fyxer are investing in high-quality, curated data as a competitive advantage in the AI industry. They hire individuals with specific skills, such as artists, chefs, construction workers, and electricians, to collect this data for their models.

3. The collected data is used to improve the performance of AI models by providing them with a diverse range of tasks and scenarios, reducing reliance on web-scraped or low-paid annotated data. This approach is particularly valuable when creating synthetic data from original footage.