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AI Companies Pay Experts Up to $350/Hour to Improve Model Reasoning and Reduce Hallucinations
Leading generative AI companies are recruiting temporary workers with diverse expertise from Hollywood screenwriters to wine hobbyists for hourly training gigs that pay up to $350. The jobs focus on fine-tuning models after they have consumed most available data. Mercor, which helps recruit for the roles, projects training agents will become the world's largest job category.
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Leading makers of generative AI tools are hiring people with a wide range of skills and expertise, from Hollywood screenwriters to hiking enthusiasts, to train their bots to be smarter, according to job postings reported by CBS News. Artificial intelligence developers want to know what you know.
"They are some of the fastest-growing jobs out there," Christine Cruzvergara, vice president of higher education and student success at Handshake, told CBS News.
"As large language models have consumed much of the available data out there, we are now at a stage where they need more fine-tuning and reinforcement," she added. " Mercor said AI labs are particularly eager to enlist people with deep expertise in their domains ranging from chess champions to wine hobbyists.
"We hire everyone ranging from chess champions to wine hobbyists to help train [AI] agents to be better, because we want them to know how to give better advice in a chess match or recommend what wine you should have with dinner," Foody said.
Hollywood screenwriter and author Robin Palmer is among those lending her skills to training AI. She spends 30 hours per week teaching chatbots how to produce compelling creative writing. Palmer compared the current ability of large language models, or LLMs, to write creatively to that of fledgling writers.
'" she said. "I really like seeing how AI is improving. '" Job postings for AI training typically do not disclose which AI developers are hiring. Workers who take the job must sign non-disclosure agreements.
