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Companies like Amazon, Netflix, and Meta are paying salaries as high as $900,000 to attract generative AI talent (www.businessinsider.com)

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Companies like Amazon, Netflix, and Meta are paying salaries as high as $900,000 to attract generative AI talent::With not enough AI experts to fill demand, companies are offering competitive salaries.

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[-] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 57 points 11 months ago

Get ready for the AI bubble to pop!

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 26 points 11 months ago

Dear god it cannot come soon enough

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

Preferably before it takes everyone's jobs.

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 8 points 11 months ago

If it could do that it wouldn't be a bubble.

[-] ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It will take more jobs than we expect and will still be a bubble

Just because there isn't a need for a $13M AI driven app that gives you ideas on what to eat for dinner doesn't mean there isn't hundreds of world changing applications

Search, writing, illustration, translation, driving, image editing, 3d modelling, 3d animation, physics simulations, coming up with heuristics on np-hard problems quickly like organizing fleets etc, ...

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 11 months ago

OK but those applications are just empowering existing jobs not replacing them.

There are of course many industries that will be shaken by generative AI and will need to adapt but I think that when the dust settles they'll all be in a better place and a lot of crud will be washed away. Things like web search / SEO / online ads for example have become super-parasitic and need major housecleaning.

[-] ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 11 months ago

That's like saying the loom empowered weavers instead of replacing them, if you make a workforce work 2x faster, you may up the production as much as wages and recruitment difficulties impeded you, but you only need so much of one industry at the end of the day so you will get unemployment.

But still, the loom's great

[-] ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 points 11 months ago

It's not gonna pop like crypto. It's gonna pop like the dotcom bubble. There will always be a lot of use for AI

[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Noooo wait let me get in first and get some money before it pops.

[-] mrvictory1@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Ba bum

[-] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 31 points 11 months ago

I made some tiddy pics with stable diffusion... Am i a generative AI talent?

[-] Leafimo@feddit.de 10 points 11 months ago

how would we believe you without any proof? ...

[-] kg86@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

I think that makes you a degenerative AI talent.

[-] ShakyPerception@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago

I can almost guarantee these jobs require 15 years of experience with AI technology.

[-] MaybeItWorks@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 months ago

Jokes aside, this is basically the price point for a really good principal engineer, so yes they expect 15 years of experience with AI technology (and it’s foundational roots in ML, modeling, etc).

[-] MisterD@lemmy.ca 18 points 11 months ago

Imagine how shitty the movies and TV shows are going to be.

[-] nychtelios@rlyeh.icu 2 points 11 months ago

Have those companies' movies and TV shows ever been good?

[-] MisterD@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

At least they had a plot. Now they can just have the AI create a show or movie and post it straight to the masses.

[-] nychtelios@rlyeh.icu 1 points 11 months ago

"They had a plot", strong words ahahahah

[-] mayonaise_met@feddit.nl 16 points 11 months ago

That's work one year and retire in Portugal money.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 13 points 11 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Since the beginning of this year, the number of listings related to generative AI on the job site Indeed quadrupled, according to data from Indeed obtained by The Wall Street Journal.

Without a big enough supply of experienced AI professionals to fill the demand for these roles, US companies are offering competitive six-figure salaries in attempts to woo skilled workers, recruiters told the Journal.

"This is pure market economics," Paul J. Groce, a partner at executive recruitment firm Leathwaite, told the Journal.

Last month, Netflix made headlines for offering up to $900,000 for an AI-focused product manager role amid the actors' and writers' strikes.

Amazon, Capital One, Meta, and Nvidia did not respond to Insider's requests for comment when asked for specifics about their AI-focused roles.

"As this tech is still so new, there is a race to bring on employees with this skill in order for the company to stay cutting edge," Stacie Haller, the chief career advisor at job site Resume Builder, told Insider.

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[-] mrvictory1@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

amid the actors’ and writers’ strikes.

These AI specialists will write scripts? Oh no!

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