The artificial intelligence craze spread to the job market, the business community is now set off the fight, with the AI talent, pay also followed the rise, even in the past, the relevant meetings, and now attracts a large number of business and professional people pilgrimage. In recent years, the company has invested in AI research from the annual ' Neural Information Processing system ' (neural Information Processing Systems; NIPS), according to Bloomberg, NIPS began 30 ago with less than 2,000 people in 2013 years, attracting more than 7,500 people, up nearly 40% from 2016. The conference tickets were sold in 12 days, significantly shorter than the 6 weeks 1 years ago. However, the pace of the job market has not kept up, the AI professionals are still in short supply, the job site $url on machine learning (machine learning) has increased by more than 1 time times in the past 1 years. Chris Rice, head of global human resources at Intel AI Products group, lamented that AI professionals were too scarce to be found and had to be exposed to opportunities through similar nips activities. As the AI job market floats, businesses are trying to rob people of their jobs, salaries are rising, the average annual salary for a PhD is $300,000, and senior academics at the top rank may get $ millions of and years of contracts. In Alphabet's DeepMind, the average salary for employees in 2016 amounted to $345,000. In the past, nips is only a small meeting, only in the hotel conference room, only hundreds of participants, a small number of enterprises will sponsor, the media also lack of interest. The meeting was held in a large conference hall, attracting 54 sponsors, twice times more than 15 5 years ago, many students, social fresh people and academics, shuttling on Facebook, Microsoft (Microsoft), IBM, Amazon and other business stalls to talk to staff. In addition to the well-known technology companies, this time there are many start-ups and unknown AI consulting companies, and even financiers such as JPMorgan and hedge funds such as Man Group's AHL set up booths at the venue. Several companies, including IBM, have tried to reach out to visitors in the venue, racking their brains to attract their attention. Enterprises to recruit AI talent has aroused the concern of academia, Seattle Allen Institute for AI CEO Oren Etziioni said, once the majority of professionals into the embrace of enterprises, academia will face the successors crisis, lack of training next generation AI talent educators, The whole ecosystem is hard to sustain.
