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High Wages for AI Talent: AI enthusiasm rockets engineer salaries to unprecedented heights.
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High Wages for AI Talent: AI enthusiasm rockets engineer salaries to unprecedented heights.

Enthusiasm for AI is driving top salaries for engineers and executives into the stratosphere. Companies that advertise open AI positions are listing annual pay scales well into six figures. In at least one case, the proposed salary approaches seven figures.

September 6, 20232 min read
High Wages for AI Talent: AI enthusiasm rockets engineer salaries to unprecedented heights.
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High Wages for AI Talent: AI enthusiasm rockets engineer salaries to unprecedented heights.

Enthusiasm for AI is driving top salaries for engineers and executives into the stratosphere. Companies that advertise open AI positions are listing annual pay scales well into six figures. In at least one case, the proposed salary approaches seven figures.

September 6, 20232 min read
Language Models’ Impact on Jobs: The occupations likely to be most affected by language models
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Language Models’ Impact on Jobs: The occupations likely to be most affected by language models

Telemarketers and college professors are most likely to find their jobs changing due to advances in language modeling, according to a new study. Researchers projected the jobs and industries in the U.S. likely to be most affected by language models.

July 12, 20232 min read
Language Models’ Impact on Jobs: The occupations likely to be most affected by language models
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Language Models’ Impact on Jobs: The occupations likely to be most affected by language models

Telemarketers and college professors are most likely to find their jobs changing due to advances in language modeling, according to a new study. Researchers projected the jobs and industries in the U.S. likely to be most affected by language models.

July 12, 20232 min read
The Secret Life of Data Labelers: The concerning working conditions of data labelers
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The Secret Life of Data Labelers: The concerning working conditions of data labelers

The business of supplying labeled data for building AI systems is a global industry. But the people who do the labeling face challenges that impinge on the quality of both their work and their lives.

July 5, 20233 min read
The Secret Life of Data Labelers: The concerning working conditions of data labelers
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The Secret Life of Data Labelers: The concerning working conditions of data labelers

The business of supplying labeled data for building AI systems is a global industry. But the people who do the labeling face challenges that impinge on the quality of both their work and their lives.

July 5, 20233 min read
Your Coworkers Aren’t Human: Confronting the Fear of a White Collar AI Takeover
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Your Coworkers Aren’t Human: Confronting the Fear of a White Collar AI Takeover

The new remote administrative assistant is a little too perky, hardworking, and efficient. Is it because he’s a bot?

October 26, 20221 min read
Your Coworkers Aren’t Human: Confronting the Fear of a White Collar AI Takeover
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Your Coworkers Aren’t Human: Confronting the Fear of a White Collar AI Takeover

The new remote administrative assistant is a little too perky, hardworking, and efficient. Is it because he’s a bot?

October 26, 20221 min read
AI Jobs Grow in Pharma: Drug Companies are Hiring More Machine Learning Engineers Than Ever
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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.

August 10, 20222 min read
AI Jobs Grow in Pharma: Drug Companies are Hiring More Machine Learning Engineers Than Ever
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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.

August 10, 20222 min read
How to Overcome Societal Obstacles: How to break into AI from a disadvantaged background.
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How to Overcome Societal Obstacles: How to break into AI from a disadvantaged background.

The top artificial intelligence companies include many people who earned degrees at elite educational institutions and started their employment with prior work experience. Yet the world is full of people from nontraditional backgrounds.

January 19, 20223 min read
How to Keep Up in a Changing Field: How to keep up with a fast-changing industry.
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How to Keep Up in a Changing Field: How to keep up with a fast-changing industry.

Machine learning changes fast. Take natural language processing. Word2vec, introduced in 2013, quickly replaced one-hot encoding with word embeddings. Transformers revolutionized the field in 2017 by parallelizing the previously sequential training process.

January 19, 20223 min read
How to Overcome Societal Obstacles: How to break into AI from a disadvantaged background.
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How to Overcome Societal Obstacles: How to break into AI from a disadvantaged background.

The top artificial intelligence companies include many people who earned degrees at elite educational institutions and started their employment with prior work experience. Yet the world is full of people from nontraditional backgrounds.

January 19, 20223 min read
How to Keep Up in a Changing Field: How to keep up with a fast-changing industry.
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How to Keep Up in a Changing Field: How to keep up with a fast-changing industry.

Machine learning changes fast. Take natural language processing. Word2vec, introduced in 2013, quickly replaced one-hot encoding with word embeddings. Transformers revolutionized the field in 2017 by parallelizing the previously sequential training process.

January 19, 20223 min read
How to Get a Job in AI
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How to Get a Job in AI

If you want to work in artificial intelligence, machine learning, or data science, I have great news: New jobs are opening in these areas at a great rate, and there’s no reason why you can’t get one of them.

January 19, 20224 min read

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