The AI Talent Shortage - Can Companies Close The Skills Gap?
Computerworld, Wednesday, April 10th, 2024
Fierce competition for genAI talent is driving the need for new thinking about employee-training programs for AI skills. If you can't hire them, train them.
Your deep generative AI (genAI) large language model (LLM) knowledge and experience could set you up for a $1 million pay day.
The Wall Street Journal reported recently that software engineers who are experienced in training LLMs and who can rectify troublesome genAI problems, such as 'AI hallucinations,' are in extremely high demand. According to the publication, the industry is willing to pay over $1 million in salary, bonus, and accelerated stock options to the most experienced individuals.
'There is a secular shift in what talents we're going after,' Naveen Rao, head of generative AI at Databricks, told the Journal. 'We have a glut of people on one side and a shortage on the other.' Rao says there might be only a couple of hundred people out there who are qualified.