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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.
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.
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.
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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?
Animated graphs and maps show global hiring trends for AI jobs in the pharma industry.
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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.
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How to Gain Practical Machine Learning Experience

Academic courses can teach you the ins and outs of machine learning, but they can't fully prepare you for putting your work into production. To get the experience you need, you need to come up with your own projects from scratch.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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AI Hubs Are Few and Far Between: U.S. AI Hubs are Concentrated in a Few Cities

A new study warns that the geographic concentration of AI in the United States is making the industry too insular.What’s new: A report by the Brookings Institution documents the extent to
Selected data from AI Index, an annual report from Stanford University
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AI for Business Is Booming: Stanford's 2021 AI Index shows commercial AI on the rise.

Commercial AI research and deployments are on the rise, a new study highlights. The latest edition of the AI Index, an annual report from Stanford University, documents key trends in the field including the growing importance of private industry and the erosion of U.S. dominance in research.

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