Business
Meta Lures Talent With Sky-High Pay: Meta’s hiring spree pushes up salaries for AI engineers higher across the industry
Publicly reported compensation for AI talent has skyrocketed in the wake of Meta’s recent hiring spree.
AI Careers
Tech & Society
LLM Support for Tutors: GPT-4 boosts remote tutors’ performance in real time, study finds
Students benefit from tutoring, but training tutors is expensive. A study shows that large language models can boost tutors’ effectiveness in real time.
Letters
How AI can make you a 10x professional: Every profession can become more efficient and strategic by applying more intelligence.
A “10x engineer” — a widely accepted concept in tech — purportedly has 10 times the impact of the average engineer.
Business
Alternatives to Acquisitions: Tech giants forge strategic partnerships to secure talent and technology without acquisitions
Big AI companies found creative ways to gain cutting-edge technology and talent without buying startups.
AI Careers
Algorithm Whisperers: What it's like to work as a prompt engineer
Looking for work in AI? Brush up on your language skills. Employers are hiring prompt engineers to write natural-language prompts for AI models, The Washington Post reported. They include Anthropic, Boston Children’s Hospital, and the London law firm Mischon de Reya.
AI Careers
Data Scientists on Data Science: Data Science Jobs Bring High Satisfaction
A survey of data scientists reveals a field of great opportunities but also room for improvement. The 2022 “State of Data Science” report from Anaconda, maker of a popular Python distribution, surveyed 3,493 students, teachers, and employees.
Letters
How to Build a Career in AI, Part 7: Optimizing Your Job Search
Every job search is different. Here are some tips from Andrew Ng to increase the odds you’ll find the right position.
Letters
How to Build a Career in AI, Part 6: Job Search Fundamentals
Last week, I wrote about switching roles, industries, or both as a framework for considering a job search. If you’re preparing to switch roles or industries, there’s a lot about your target job that you probably don’t know.
Letters
How to Build a Career in AI, Part 5: Finding Your First AI Job
Andrew Ng presents a framework for job seekers in AI, especially those entering from a different field.
AI Careers
AI Jobs Grow in Pharma: Drug Companies are Hiring More Machine Learning Engineers Than Ever
Pharmaceutical companies in several countries are hiring machine learning engineers at increasing rates.
Letters
How to Build a Career in AI, Part 4: How to Sequence Projects to Build a Career
Last week’s letter focused on coming up with AI project ideas, part of a series on how to build a career in the field. This letter describes how a sequence of projects might fit into your career path.
AI Careers
What AI Employers Want: 10 Most In-Demand Jobs in AI and Machine Learning
A website that aggregates AI jobs revealed the roles that are most in-demand. Ai-jobs.net published its second annual list of the job titles that appeared most frequently in its listings.