周日晚间的《60分钟》节目深入探访了Mercor，这家快速崛起、估值数十亿美元的AI数据公司。该公司利用超过10万名自由职业者，凭借他们在金融、建筑、诗歌等领域的专业知识来训练AI模型。
"60 Minutes" on Sunday night went inside Mercor, the fast-growing, multibillion-dollar AI data company that uses more than 100,000 freelancers to train AI models with human expertise in finance, architecture, poetry and more.
为何重要：AI模型所需的数据量远超其仅通过“吞噬”互联网所能获取的范围。
Why it matters: AI models need more data than they can glean just by eating the internet.
该CBS新闻节目展示了一位酿酒师、一位音乐制作人以及一位正在训练AI以准确解读实验室结果的医生。
The CBS News show featured a winemaker, a music producer, and a physician who's training AI to accurately interpret lab results.
Mercor 23岁的首席执行官（也是纸面亿万富翁）布伦丹·富迪（Brendan Foody）在旧金山市中心的总部告诉《60分钟》记者乔恩·沃瑟姆（Jon Wertheim）：“对于人类希望AI能够做的每一件事，我们都想教会它如何去做。”
"Everything that humans want AI to be able to do, we wanna teach it how to do that," Brendan Foody, Mercor's 23-year-old CEO (and a paper billionaire), told "60 Minutes" correspondent Jon Wertheim at the company's headquarters in downtown San Francisco.
以“组织人类智慧”为口号的Mercor，其全职员工人数从2025年1月的20人增长至目前的400人。这家独角兽公司的年化收入在24个月内从100万美元飙升至20亿美元。
Mercor, with the slogan "organizing human intelligence," grew from 20 full-timers in January 2025 to 400 now. The unicorn's annualized revenue soared from $1 million to $2 billion in 24 months.
幕后花絮：《60分钟》聘请了AI公司Runway，基于人类撰写的脚本，制作了一个沃瑟姆演播室开场白的AI版本。
Behind the scenes: "60 Minutes" enlisted the AI company Runway to create an AI version of Wertheim's studio intro, which humans wrote.
节目表示：“我们通过发送乔恩之前录制的一个旧开场白，并附上我们的新脚本来实现这一点。五分钟后，我们就拥有了一个‘AI版乔恩·沃瑟姆’，并与真人同框展示在屏幕上。”
"We did this by sending one of his past intros from a previous story Jon recorded, and then giving them our new script," the show says. "Five minutes later, we had an AI Jon Wertheim," who was shown onscreen next to the real one.
《60分钟》执行制片人、前科技记者尼克·比尔顿（Nick Bilton）表示：“我一直想在《60分钟》中思考如何展示和讲述故事，对我来说，这是一个绝佳的机会，既能展示技术的进步程度，又能将其融入故事中。”
Nick Bilton — the executive producer of "60 Minutes," who's a former tech journalist — said: "Something I've wanted to do at '60 Minutes' is think about ways we can show and tell stories, and to me this felt like a perfect opportunity to show how far a technology has advanced while also using it in the story."