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The Rise of the AI Engineer - Shawn Swyx Wang, React Summit US 2023
Learn about the rise of the AI engineer, a new role emerging from ML engineering, with five key drivers, and explore the future of AI in language, highlighting key milestones and applications.
- AI engineering is emerging as a new role, distinct from ML engineering
- Five key reasons for the rise of AI engineer: economics, sociology, tech, product shift, and fine tuning
- AI engineering can be done without extensive ML background, just by leveraging APIs and prompts
- AI engineers will focus on unlocking capabilities without training models, like front-end engineers
- There will be a shift from “ready, aim, fire” to “fire-ready-aim” in AI development
- AI agents will become a key aspect of AI engineering
- The role of AI is not to replace jobs, but to augment and enhance human capabilities
- The term “AI engineer” is emerging as a new industry term
- OpenAI’s GPT-3 is a significant milestone in AI engineering progress
- The number of AI engineers will soon surpass the number of ML engineers
- The future of AI is in language, with applications like code assistance and copilots