I work for AI and earn millions a year

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Tech Planet (WeChat ID: tech618)

Text | Chen Qiaohui

The hottest technology hot spot at the moment is this round of AI fever. AI has exploded and emerging topics such as ChatGPT, AI painting, AIGC creation, and large models have attracted everyone's attention. In March this year, there were no less than 10 hot search topics related to AI, which shows that everyone's attention to AI remains high.

At the same time, a round of AI entrepreneurship has also been set off in the industry, whether it is Ali, Tencent, Byte and other big manufacturers, or technology bigwigs such as Kaifu Lee, Wang Huiwen, Wang Xiaochuan, Zhou Bowen, etc., have announced the end of AI entrepreneurship. And these entrepreneurial fevers have driven AI-related positions to become hot sweet potatoes.

According to the "ChatGPT Related Field Employment Insight Report" launched by Liepin Big Data Research Institute, the current demand for artificial intelligence talents is nearly 3 times that of five years ago, of which the AIGC (artificial intelligence generated content) field directly driven by ChatGPT has seen a year-on-year increase of 42.51% in the past year. Even some large companies have not hesitated to launch some AI-related positions with millions of annual salaries.

Among them, professional positions such as prompt word engineers and artificial intelligence trainers have become popular for new recruits in recent times. In addition, AI has also spawned some new professions that ordinary people can serve, such as AI mappers, AI storytellers, etc., and more new professions may be born next.

There is no doubt that AI is driving new job opportunities. Tech Planet has selected 5 people working on new careers in AI to share their stories and reveal the secrets of these hot new professions in detail.

Prompt word engineer: lick bricks for AI, with an annual salary of 1 million

Li Hang works for a major Internet factory

I am a "prompt engineer" who has just started the industry, which can be understood as an engineer responsible for developing and optimizing artificial intelligence prompt algorithms.

Thanks to the increasing popularity of artificial intelligence technology, more and more new professions have begun to emerge, among which, prompt word engineer as an indispensable profession is attracting the attention of many enterprises, based on this demand, I also transferred from research and development to this position to learn.

To be honest, "prompt engineers" are very useful for an AI company, because it can help companies and research institutions implement various tasks faster and more accurately, such as training large models. This work focuses on a deep understanding of technologies such as artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning, and proficiency in human language expression.

Our company is currently supporting the development of intelligent customer service, chatbots, speech recognition and other products through natural language processing technology. For the AI training of these products, we need to prompt the word engineer to solve it. The daily work is to design and optimize prompt words for various applications and platforms to improve the user's experience and efficiency.

Of course, this job also needs to pay attention to collaboration, in addition to in-depth understanding of the characteristics of the application and the needs of users, understand the user's habits and psychology, in order to design the appropriate prompt for different scenarios and environments, in this process, I often work closely with product managers, UI designers and user researchers to ensure that the design of the prompt word meets the overall positioning of the product and the expectations of users.

In order to adapt to the changing application environment and user needs, it is also necessary to continuously optimize and adjust the existing prompt words. For example, when a new feature of my app is released, I need to update the corresponding prompt words to help users learn to use the new feature faster and more efficiently. At the same time, I also need to pay attention to user feedback and usage data to find and solve the problems and bottlenecks of prompt words, and continuously improve the accuracy and effect of prompt words.

This job is in great demand in China, anyway, our group is still short of people, so the salary is also considerable, a "big god" in our group, working for more than 2 years, the annual salary has almost reached 1 million yuan.

In general, as a prompt word engineer, my daily work needs to fully understand user needs, constantly optimize and adjust prompt words, and make AI better serve users.

Artificial intelligence trainer: train AI like a teacher, and the monthly salary of 30,000 is no worse than that of a large factory

He Li, an employee of an AI startup

A university ordinary undergraduate, the major is artificial intelligence, when I first chose this major, I regretted a little, felt that there was no future after graduation, and I did not find a suitable job, even if there is, the other party's requirements are either 985, 211 college graduates, or it is not an AI job at all. Later, after staying in a software company for two years, until the second half of last year, with the fire of AI, I went to a startup that really does AI, and my current identity is an artificial intelligence trainer, mainly doing data annotation.

As an AI trainer, my job is to design and implement training programs for machine learning models. A range of methods are generally used to improve the performance of machine learning models, including data cleaning, hyperparameter tuning, regularization, and so on. It is also responsible for extracting, filtering, and writing meaningful structures from the available data in order to train machine learning models and solve problems that arise during training.

In addition, the latest advances in machine learning techniques will be collected and training methods will be continuously improved to improve the accuracy and reliability of models.

Simply put, the artificial intelligence trainer is to let the robot understand what the user is saying, so I want to enhance the robot's understanding ability, how to train and enhance, tell the robot what are the synonyms of this sentence, try to optimize the questions and answers, need to have talent in language, but also patience.

Although there are now some labeling platforms and semi-automated labeling tools, in some new fields, machines cannot yet help humans work, and data labeling still needs to be completed manually. Even with AI automated labeling tools, humans still have to do the final step of reviewing quality inspection.

The AI company I am staying in now has a very good salary and welfare, with a salary of nearly 30,000 yuan a month, and half of the treatment is not worse than that of large factories, which is also the current major enterprises for this emerging industry technical talents more important, so the salary will be higher than other positions.

But it should also be noted that artificial intelligence trainers are also a relatively professional job, because artificial intelligence trainers conduct a lot of training on artificial intelligence systems, and need to have algorithm tuning, data annotation, human-computer interaction design, performance test tracking and other skills, so to be an artificial intelligence trainer, you need to learn more basic knowledge of AI on a daily basis, and pay attention to cutting-edge AI technology.

AI code collator: Hu Liwei, a professional who allows writing code to "reduce costs and increase efficiency", an employee of a software company in a second-tier city

AI code organizer, literally means to sort out and correct the code generated by AI, and finally obtain a complete and logically capable code document.

The tool is now ChatGPT, and what to do every day is to generate a piece of code by asking ChatGPT according to the needs of Party A's software manual. At present, there are college students working part-time with us, the average code document can be completed in half an hour, 15 yuan / piece, if calculated according to 8 hours of working hours, almost 240 yuan a day, overtime is calculated separately, I am in a second-tier city, almost a month can get more than 8,000 yuan, if in the first line, breaking 10,000 should be very easy. The key is that the technical content of this position is not high, and it only needs to use AI to achieve the generation of low-end code, so it is easy to get started.

However, it should be noted that this position tests patience and care. Because ChatGPT cannot generate the correct code at one time, when you really get started with ChatGPT to generate code, you find that the code is prone to production errors, basically every time the generated code will be more or less wrong.

Fortunately, you can report the problem to ChatGPT and let him regenerate it, which avoids going to Baidu to search for relevant error information, or checking the API document of the POI library to deal with the problem. It is through constant guidance that the correct code result can finally be given. The whole process of writing code is very efficient.

Also, if you can speak English, even better, because the whole conversation is in English.

In general, ChatGPT is like a code novice or intern, it can't do complex logical analysis, but it can do some step-by-step things for you. Therefore, in order to write code through AI, it is necessary to put forward problems and requirements under specific conditions, guide AI to solve, and guide ChatGPT to continuously improve its operating logic by grasping the key to each stage of the problem, and gradually and finally write the correct code.

AI Grapher: Part-time side hustle easy money Li Xin, part-time

To be honest, this job was really born because of AI, and without AI painting, I would definitely not have come into contact with this profession, because I really can't paint, and I am a programmer myself.

The so-called "times create heroes", this "hero" is AI painting. I started to learn AI painting last year, and I was amazed by AI painting, so I also came into contact with this technology. Later, in the side business circle, I heard that a company recruited a part-time job in AI painting, so I went to try it, but I didn't expect that the work was easy, the income was acceptable, and I could earn an additional 4,000 yuan a month.

My part-time job is to use the AI drawing tool "midjourney", according to the above needs, through the prompt words or keywords, to let the tool produce a picture, it should be noted that splitting keywords is the core of this work, after all, the finer the keywords, the more consistent the picture is made. I feel that AI drawing is mainly used for low-end painting, which can reduce the workload of the company's original designers, save time and expenses, and greatly improve work efficiency.

Of course, I later learned about other ways to make money from AI-generated graphics, such as printing or making products with AI-generated images, specifically using AI-generated images to design T-shirts, posters, phone cases, etc., and printing or making them into products for sale. If you have your own brand or platform, this is a great business opportunity. I used the studio to do it secretly before, and I earned almost 200,000 yuan a month.

In addition, there is also a "AI painting runner" job in the AI painting circle, that is, some painting enthusiasts, hand-drawn some relatively simple drafts, but in order to get a more detailed picture, you can use the "AI painting runner" through AI tools to help produce drawings, according to the customer's draft, to generate high-quality AI pictures, I see that Taobao has already begun to do this business.

There are also people around me who use AI drawing tools to convert the generated images into digital collections, and I heard that some domestic digital collection platforms have accepted this kind of "artwork" and sold them on the platform.

In general, AI mappers are a new profession that conforms to the times, and for some companies, it is undoubtedly a good position to reduce costs.

AI narrator: Let the AI who does not understand emotions write a touching online text Lin Tong in half an hour, a novel writer

In fact, this is a very new job, probably born less than a month ago, a new profession that emerged from the writing circle.

Specifically, it is the use of ChatGPT-based AI tools to write web articles and stories. Different from online manuscript washing software or platforms, the articles created by AI tools are more unique and can be regarded as "original", and this "original" story published on the web article or some text creation platforms can get the incentive bonus of the platform.

What I have to do every day is to imagine a story background, and then break up the story in detail, which must be split in enough detail, so that the text feedback from the AI can be more detailed and real, if the question is more extensive, then the content of the feedback will be empty and not fascinating.

Basically, a 10,000-word story, through AI tools, only takes half an hour to write, although the speed is fast, there will be logical problems, at this time you need to modify it yourself, so that the context can be smoothly connected.

At present, I have written short stories such as emotions, suspense, and situations through AI tools, and I can indeed achieve a fascinating feeling, and there is an emotional article that has exceeded 30,000 views on the public account, which is a relatively good one written recently. I just regard this money-making job as a side job, if I do it full-time, such as writing stories and writing web articles with a small number of words, the daily income is estimated to be more than 200-300 yuan.

In short, it is hard to imagine that such an emotionless AI tool, relying only on a story structure given to him by a person, can write a content that can resonate with readers, and it is really difficult to say whether it is true or false, or false or true. To avoid problems, I still add the words "This story is pure fiction" at the end of each article.

At present, the profession of AI writing narrative is still a side business of individuals, because in itself, AI is like a transportation tool, and some roads it does not go well, such as in some more imaginative and more responsible narrative backgrounds, AI tools are not yet capable of writing.

(Note: The narrators in this article are pseudonyms)