Amazon study finds employers are willing pay a premium for AI skills

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It’s a milestone day for OpenAI and AI enthusiasts everywhere as ChatGPT turns 1 year old. From classrooms to workplaces and billions of dollars in funding, the chatbot has been at the forefront of the shift that has seen generative AI go from a fun gimmick to potentially world-changing technology.

And nowhere is that change being felt more than in the board rooms and cubicles of every major company around the world. A new study from Amazon has found that over 90% of surveyed companies expect to use AI — but only a fraction of them can find AI-qualified talent.

TODAY’S MENU

• Amazon study finds employers will pay a premium for AI skills

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• Friday Laughs: Johny Cash singing Taylor Swift

• AI Generated Images: Astronaut job postings

TODAY IN AI & TECH

• Aerial Threat: Defense startup Anduril unveils “a fighter jet weapon that lands like a Falcon 9.“

• Birthday Bot: ChatGPT turns 1 year old.

• Big Bucks: Startup Together AI raises $102.5 million to fuel open source AI.

• Shopping Buddy: MasterCard launches Muse, an AI assistant to help you shop.

• Better Together: Amazon will offer companies human benchmarking teams to test AI models.

AI AT WORK

New Amazon study finds employers willing to pay significantly more for workers with AI skills

A new Amazon Web Services study on AI skills in the US has found that AI skills could boost worker salaries by up to 35%. The wide-ranging study from AWS surveyed 3,297 employees and 1,340 organizations across the US and had a number of interesting findings to share:

Insights for Employers

• Over 90% of surveyed employers predicted that they will use AI-related solutions in their organizations by 2028

• In addition to IT (92%), 85% of employers believe that sales and marketing will be the biggest beneficiaries of AI

• Surveyed employers also believe that AI could boost productivity by 47%

• 64% of employers picked task automation as the key area where AI will improve productivity

Insights for Employees

• 88% of employees expect to use AI in their daily work by 2028

• 84% of employees indicate that AI could have some positive impact

  on their careers

• Employers estimated that employees who acquire AI skills could see their salary increase by 35% or more

• 42% of employers are actively looking for people with AI qualifications but 75% of employers are having trouble finding qualified candidates

You can get more insights and data in the full report from Amazon here.

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Generative AI product announcements in 2023

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TUTORIAL

How to create web apps on your phone with AI

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FRIDAY LAUGHS

Johnny Cash singing Blank Space by Taylor Swift thanks to AI

AI GENERATED IMAGES

Astronaut job postings

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