How To Earn $335k Using ChatGPT? Newly-Created Jobs Amid The Rise Of AI Bot Have Huge Salaries

The new AI bot “ChatGPT” has taken the internet by storm, and it might also help you. It arrived last year and, so far, has had the knock-on effect of creating a burgeoning new jobs market where companies are desperately hunting for AI whisperers, which are officially called prompt engineers. 

The job market is enjoying such a boom that firms including Google-backed startup Anthropic are advertising salaries up to $335,000 for a Prompt Engineer and librarian in San Francisco. 

A post claims the role entails building a library of high-quality prompts or prompt chains to accomplish a variety of tasks, with an easy guide to help users search for the one that meets their needs,’ and building ‘a set of tutorials and interactive tools that teach the art of prompt engineering to customers.’

Per the posting, applicants with basic programming skills and a high level’ of familiarity with large language models would make a good fit, but the company also wants people to apply even if they don’t meet every single qualification.

You don’t even need a degree! to get the post.

Other roles include a $230,000 salary for a machine learning engineer who can prompt and understand how to produce the best output from AI tools. Accordingly, London law firm Mishcon de Reya and Boston Children’s Hospital have also advertised for prompt engineer roles. The CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, which created ChatGPT has previously spoken about the need for prompt engineers. 

Last month, Altman tweeted how writing a great prompt for a chatbot persona is an amazingly high-leverage skill.

Specifically, OpenAI made ChatGPT available to the public for free in late November. It is easy and free to use and can help with anything from writing work reports to creating diet plans to applying for jobs. It also can understand long and detailed prompts and if you need a text in a specific format [for example, a cover letter, email, Tweet, or similar], ChatGPT will happily output text in that format. 

The job, prompts engineers, to see people trying to enhance the results that ChatGPT provides and to better train a company’s workforce so they can make the most of using the tool. 

And for the roles, no specialist computer engineering degree is needed. In an interview with Bloomberg, prompt engineer Albert Phelps, from Leytonstone said: “It’s like an AI whisperer. You’ll often find prompt engineers come from a history, philosophy, or English language background because it’s a wordplay. You’re trying to distill the essence or meaning of something into a limited number of words.”

Albert, 29, claimed he and his colleagues are tasked with writing messages or prompts for AI bots such as ChatGPT. 

The writeups can be saved so his clients can make use of them later and improve their understanding of the tool. Albert said that during a typical day, he writes five different prompts and has about 50 interactions with ChatGPT. He had studied history at the University of Warwick, before working as a consultant for Clydesdale Bank and Barclays Plc.

The now-prompt engineer was inspired to find out more about artificial intelligence after attending a talk by a UK government-funded institute which in turn led to his current role at Accenture. 

Prompt engineer at Copy.ai, Anna Bernstein was a freelance writer before she started working with AI. She told Business Insider: “I love the ‘mad scientist’ part of the job where I’m able to come up with a dumb idea for a prompt and see it actually work. As a poet, the role also feeds into my obsessive nature with approaching language. It’s a strange intersection of my literary background and analytical thinking.” 

Mark Standen, who runs the staffing business for artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation at Hays in the United Kingdom also told Bloomberg that the prompt engineer market was the fastest-moving for 25 years. He added that although salaries start at $49,000, expert prompt engineers can name their price and charge up to $247,000 or $371,000 per year.