Sino-Singapore Jingwei, February 15th (Chang Tao) Headhunter Ming Jun (pseudonym) is recently recruiting a chief engineer in the direction of NLP (Natural Language Processing) for a large language model like ChatGPT for a technology company located in Beijing. The annual salary is as high as 3 million.

　　The continued popularity of ChatGPT has not only "stimulated" big companies, ignited the entrepreneurial and investment circles, and also detonated the AI ​​(artificial intelligence) talent market.

Ming Jun also sighed, "It has been several years since I have experienced such a scene of poaching people everywhere."

The highest monthly salary is 90,000

　　The main job of Ming Jun is to help some companies find technical talents in artificial intelligence.

He told the Sino-Singapore Jingwei reporter that due to the popularity of ChatGPT recently, the company has paid a lot of attention, and there are more recruitment needs for related positions such as natural language processing.

　　NLP is an important direction in the field of artificial intelligence. Generally speaking, NLP is to use artificial intelligence to process, understand and use human language, so that humans can communicate with machines without barriers.

ChatGPT itself is an NLP tool.

"The chief engineer position currently recruited is in the direction of NLP. It is the company's ChatGPT project. The salary can still be negotiated."

Ming Jun said.

　　In Ming Jun's impression, the AI ​​recruitment market has not been this lively for several years.

He said, "Around 2018, there was also a phenomenon of robbing people in the AI ​​industry, and the salary was very high, but then the whole industry was relatively quiet, and the industries that robbed people have successively turned into Metaverse and chips. Recently, ChatGPT has attracted a lot of attention. , I feel that the demand for the AI ​​industry, especially for professional positions, has risen again.”

　　A reporter from Sino-Singapore Jingwei searched Zhaopin.com, BOSS Zhipin and other websites with the keyword "ChatGPT" and found that the current recruitment positions are mainly NLP algorithm engineers, with a monthly salary of 20,000 to 90,000 yuan. Some companies promise to pay 16 salary.

　　Take the position of "Large Model NLP Algorithm Engineer" of HKUST Xunfei as an example. This position was updated on February 10, with a monthly salary of 50,000 to 80,000 yuan and 14 salaries. The annual salary can reach up to one million.

This position requires a master's degree or above, with at least 3 years of work experience in machine learning and deep learning, etc. The recruitment also mentions that "experience in training large NLP models is preferred, such as BERT, GPT-3, ChatGPT and other LLM (big predictive model) and other relevant experience.”

　　The monthly salary of a "big model technical expert (ChatGPT direction)" in a robot company is 60,000 to 90,000 yuan. It requires 8 years or more of working experience in NLP-related algorithms, and familiarity with the latest achievements and development trends of large models (ChatGPT).

　　Another company's "NLP algorithm engineer" position has a monthly salary of 20,000 to 30,000 yuan. It requires a bachelor's degree or above, and understands and can apply the latest industry trends, such as GPT-3 and GPT-3.5 represented by ChatGPT.

　　According to data provided by Zhaopin.com to Sino-Singapore Jingwei reporters, the second week of work resumption after the Spring Festival (February 6-February 9), compared with the first week (January 28-January 31), NLP job recruitment The number of positions increased by 24.1% month-on-month, and

the average recruitment salary for this position also rose from 19,831 yuan in the first week to 23,351 yuan in the second week.

Based on this calculation, the average recruitment salary for NLP positions rose by nearly 18% within a week.

Big factory experience is preferred

　　The human resources of the company that recruited the position of "NLP algorithm engineer" told the reporter of Sino-Singapore Jingwei that they have been hanging up this recruitment for a long time, and they understand that ChatGPT is a newly updated requirement.

"As a start-up company, we are more aware of our background. If we have experience in a large factory, we can give priority to it."

The human resources said.

　　Ming Jun also revealed that headhunters will also look at their background, whether they have experience in a big factory, etc., but they are not the decisive factors.

"The main thing is

to look at the direction and matching degree. It can come from a large factory, laboratory or research institute, but overall the requirements are higher.

"

　　Reporters from Sino-Singapore Jingwei combed through the recruitment information and found that relevant positions require certain work experience and have relatively detailed requirements for professional ability. From this point of view, they are not friendly to fresh graduates.

　　After several years of development, China's artificial intelligence industry has accumulated a certain talent base, but it still faces a gap.

　　The "2022 Artificial Intelligence Top Talent Data Illustrated Book" released by Maimai in August 2022 shows that there is still a large gap in artificial intelligence talents, and the recruitment of talents in the algorithm direction of the artificial intelligence industry is the most difficult and the most popular.

In the four technical directions of computer vision, deep learning, speech recognition, and natural language processing in the AI ​​industry, the company with the largest talent pool is Huawei, followed by leading Internet companies such as Baidu, ByteDance, and Tencent.

　　On the other hand, compared with other industries, the overall salary of AI industry is also higher.

According to Maimai data,

the average starting salary of algorithm engineers exceeds 32,000 yuan, and nearly nine of them have a master's or doctoral degree.

Zhaopin’s data also shows that in the second week after the resumption of work after the Spring Festival, the average monthly salary of chip engineers and artificial intelligence engineers exceeded 20,000 yuan, reaching 26,330 yuan and 24,715 yuan respectively, ranking the top two.

Among them, the recruitment salary of artificial intelligence engineers increased by 14.5% month-on-month, ranking first among all occupations.

What about future returns?

　　According to incomplete statistics, as of now, dozens of companies in China, such as Baidu, Ali, Tencent, JD.com, 360, and Kuaishou, have officially announced that they have entered the ChatGPT field.

　　The popularity of ChatGPT not only "stimulated" big companies, but also ignited the entrepreneurial and investment circles. Among them, the former co-founder of Meituan and retired Wang Huiwen announced that he had invested 50 million US dollars in the field of artificial intelligence to create Chinese version of OpenAI (ChatGPT parent company).

Wang Huiwen also said that in the next round of financing, top VC (venture capital) has already subscribed for 230 million US dollars.

　　However,

building a Chinese version of OpenAI or a Chinese version of ChatGPT is an extremely expensive game.

According to public reports, OpenAI currently spends "single-digit cents" in computing costs per user interaction with ChatGPT, and as the scale of use becomes larger, these computing costs may soar to millions of dollars.

On the other hand, OpenAI, behind ChatGPT, is still in the red.

　　As an investor in OpenAI, Microsoft announced on January 24 that it will make a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar investment in it.

Previously, Microsoft had invested in OpenAI in 2019 and 2021, and in 2019 Microsoft invested $1 billion in it.

　　The investment of real money and the future return will mainly depend on how the business model develops.

At present, the industry insiders do not have a clear answer to this question.

　　Zou Yanshu, managing director of Huaxing New Economic Fund, said in an interview with a reporter from Sino-Singapore Jingwei, "We are also exploring the business model of ChatGPT, and there is no definite answer."

　　Huang Yungang, partner of Source Code Capital, believes that in some fields, the development of AIGC (Artificial Intelligence Generated Content) technology has already passed the PMF (Product Market Fit) point, and multiple products have proved this point.

There have been clear signals of AIGC commercialization, but it is still uncertain whether it will really create a trillion-dollar market. The specific model still needs to be explored, but the potential is great.