Amid growing enthusiasm about the development of artificial intelligence (AI), the number of job openings related to AI technologies in Taiwan has surpassed 26,000 and jobseekers with AI expertise are expected to enjoy a wage increase of about 10 percent, according to the online 104 Job Bank (104人力銀行).
Citing statistics compiled from its data, 104 said almost 60 percent of the 26,390 AI-related jobs this month came from electronics information, software and semiconductor industries, while about 20 percent were offered by traditional manufacturers and about 10 percent by the service sector, such as retail, wholesale, direct selling, legal and accounting businesses.
According to the job bank, most of the AI-related jobs — 15,343 — were in the local high-tech sector, which accounted for 58.2 percent of the total openings, with traditional manufacturing industries posting 5,171 such positions, making up 19.6 percent of the total.
In the service sector, the retail, wholesale and direct selling industries sought 1,540 employees with AI knowhow, accounting for about 5.8 percent of the total openings, while the legal, accounting, consultancy, R&D and design industries offered 1,047 AI-related jobs, making up 4 percent of the total.
Another 858 openings were available in the financial and insurance industry, representing 3.3 percent of the total, the job bank said.
104 Job Bank chief data officer Neil Li (李魁林) said in a statement that employers were recruiting newcomers who have expertise in popular AI applications such as ChatGPT, an AI chatbot developed by OpenAI to enable users to refine and steer a conversation toward a desired length, format, style, level of detail and language.
In addition, Li said, those who have expertise in Midjourney, an image-generation tool that can create art based on text prompts, were also welcome, while jobs were also created for those who have skills using Stable Diffusion, a deep learning text-to-image model.
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Li said jobseekers with AI knowledge can expect a salary increase of no less than 10 percent compared with what their original jobs offered.
Among the AI-related jobs offered by traditional industries, the job bank said, AI marketing specialists were required to work with their teams to plan offline and online promotional campaigns, while taking advantage of the new technology to optimize international business-to-business marketing activities and manage social media.
AI has become a buzzword worldwide. In Taiwan, the AI frenzy has been especially talked up by US graphics processing unit designer Nvidia Corp’s founder and CEO Jensen Huang (黃仁勳), who featured prominently at the Computex Taipei trade show from late May to early last month.
Last week, a visit to Taiwan by Lisa Su (蘇姿丰), chairperson and CEO of another US-based IC design giant, Advanced Micro Devices Inc, gave an additional boost to AI development.
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