Organize | Kexin Zhu
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The rise of ChatGPT has given birth to a "distinctive" new profession - prompt engineer (prompt engineer).
The main responsibility is to be responsible for adding keywords and hints to the text, pictures, audio and other content generated by the AI chat robot, so as to guide the AI chat robot to generate content that is more in line with user needs according to specific goals and situations.
According to foreign media Benzinga, at present, the salary of some positions of prompt engineers is as high as 375,000 US dollars (about 2.67 million yuan).
Why You Can Get High Salary Without a Coding Background
Unexpectedly, the most special feature of this "high-paying" career is that it does not require a strong coding background and technical knowledge to stand out.
Since there is no "professional" restriction, how can this profession get a high salary?
Indeed, the assertion that AI systems should be tested primarily by writing articles rather than by writing code seems unconvincing.
In this regard, Riley Googside, the first prompt engineer on the entire network, made a relevant explanation in an interview with The Washington Post: "The duty of the prompt engineer is to create and improve the text prompts that people input to artificial intelligence, hoping to learn from it. Get the best results. Unlike traditional programmers, prompting engineers to program in natural language sends commands written in plain text to the AI system, which then does the actual work.”
Becoming a competent prompt engineer requires understanding the flaws of AI tools, enhancing their strengths, and gaming complex strategies that turn simple inputs into truly unique outcomes.
At the same time, Kieran Scully, manager of professional recruitment firm Morgan McKinley, also made an addition-prompting that candidates for engineering jobs should be familiar with the basics of data science, machine learning and deep thinking. Because of the characteristics of "perseverance, logical thinking, curiosity and causal thinking", it is conducive to creating more value in formulating effective prompts and understanding contextual information.
Many companies are recruiting talents: high salary + training, the highest annual salary is 375,000 US dollars
In fact, Scale AI, an artificial intelligence unicorn company from Silicon Valley, and a data scientist named Riley Googside first kicked off the recruitment of "reminder engineers".
By chance, Riley Goodside received an official offer from Scale AI by relying on her proficiency in chatGPT prompt words, and became the first prompt engineer in the whole network, earning an annual salary of one million yuan.
Afterwards, the word eyes that reminded engineers began to appear more and more in everyone's field of vision.
Companies spend a lot of money to recruit talents and encourage more people to join the ranks of prompt engineers. Even "father of ChatGPT" Sam Altman tweeted, "Writing a really good prompt for a chatbot is a very high-leverage skill and an early example of programming in natural language."
According to a survey by ResumeBuilder.com, a career consulting platform, nearly 29% of companies plan to hire prompt engineers in 2023, and about 25% of them expect a starting salary of more than US$200,000 (about RMB 1.42 million) per year.
According to an earlier report by insider, Anthropic, an artificial intelligence security and research company, offered an annual salary between US$280,000 (approximately RMB 2 million) and US$375,000 (approximately RMB 2.67 million) when recruiting prompt engineers. The goal is to build high-quality response prompts that provide users with an easy guide to meet their needs.
On the freelance job platform Upwork, the recruitment information of prompt engineers is published. The salary of the position can be as high as 40 US dollars (about 285 yuan) per hour. The main task is to generate blog articles and FAQs.
Peter Pru, CEO of Ecommerce Empire Builders, also said he hired two prompt engineers for his Philadelphia-based company, both earning six-figure salaries. Their job content is mainly to cooperate with various teams from design to R&D to ensure effective results and more valuable services for customers.
Mark Standen, staff member of Hays, a recruitment agency in the UK and Ireland, said: "Prompt candidates for engineering positions, you can ask us for the salary they want."
With high salaries, technology companies have not forgotten to strengthen job training for prompt engineers to help them strengthen professional knowledge and improve work efficiency. The training content mainly includes two main aspects:
To AI language models such as ChatGPT, hint design and optimization, and hint performance analysis;
Enhanced collaboration with researchers, designers, editors and advertising managers.
The Washington Post has stated that although the role of prompting engineers varies from company to company, their tasks are basically to understand the capabilities of AI and discover why AI makes mistakes.
Around 2025, related jobs will surge
What is clear is that the "spawned" prompt engineers are playing a vital role in training AI's large language models to provide accurate and useful responses to users.
According to foreign media Benzinga, although the field is still in its early stages, experts predict that around 2025, there will be a surge in jobs related to prompting engineers.
At the same time, the rise of AI-centric jobs in niche markets such as healthcare, finance, gaming, and law is further cementing the importance of prompting engineers in the AI industry.
Stacie Haller, ResumeBuilder's Chief Career Advisor, once said frankly: "Hiring prompt engineers can help companies save on labor and resource costs, while benefiting from their unique skill sets."
Of course, some scholars have questioned the effectiveness of prompting engineers in testing AI.
Shane Steinert-Threlkeld, a professor of linguistics at the University of Washington, said: "It's not a science that prompt engineers can't actually predict what a robot will say!"
In the future, it will take time to show what value engineers will provide to the AI industry.
But there is no doubt that employers in the AI industry have begun to be more open and positive to candidates from different backgrounds, and also recognize the value of different perspectives in shaping the evolving world of AI technology.
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Reference link:
https://www.benzinga.com/news/23/06/32722982/high-paying-chatgpt-careers-30-of-companies-seek-nontech-professionals-for-300-000-salaries
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/05/chatgpt-is-the-newest-in-demand-job-skill-that-can-help-you-get-hired.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-prompt-engineer-jobs-pay-salary-requirements-no-tech-background-2023-3
https://www.businessinsider.com/prompt-engineering-ai-chatgpt-jobs-explained-2023-3
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