An employee working on a computer during a training session at the HITL office, in Sofia, Bulgaria. An innovative Bulgarian company is using new forms of work created by the growth of artificial intelligence to tackle the challenge of finding work for refugees – even far beyond Bulgaria's borders. — Photos: AFP
SOFIA: Single mother-of-two Sara Faizi from Afghanistan faced a dead end when she arrived in Bulgaria in 2018: the former bank branch operations manager needed a job but neither spoke the local language nor had any contacts.
An energetic Bulgarian, Iva Gumnishka, 25, and her social enterprise Humans In The Loop (HITL) lent her a hand, linking Faizi to work created by the booming machine learning and artificial intelligence industry.
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An employee working on a computer during a training session at the HITL office, in Sofia, Bulgaria. An innovative Bulgarian company is using new forms of work created by the growth of artificial intelligence to tackle the challenge of finding work for refugees – even far beyond Bulgaria's borders. — Photos: AFP
Employees waiting for the start of a training session at the Humans In the Loop (HITL) office, in Sofia, Bulgaria. — AFP
An employee working on a computer during a training at the Humans In the Loop (HITL) office, in Sofia, Bulgaria. — AFP
Gumnishka, founder of HITL, in her office in Sofia, Bulgaria. — AFP
Employees waiting for the start of a training session at the Humans In the Loop (HITL) office, in Sofia, Bulgaria. An innovative Bulgarian company, Humans In The Loop (HITL), is using new forms of work created by the growth of artificial intelligence to tackle the challenge of finding work for refugees – even far beyond Bulgaria's borders. — AFP
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