Some people made 1 million yuan in just a few months, and some expanded their AI business overseas… Young people who caught up with the AI trend made their first pot of gold in life _ Eastmoney.com
Domestic animation company
Use AIGC to write scripts and design characters
In the world of Internet entrepreneurship, those born in the 1980s are clearly “veterans”. Wu Jun, an entrepreneur born in 1985, told reporters that after graduating from the Computer Science Department of Guangdong University of Technology, he worked as a migrant worker for 10 years. After working on games and animation products for 10 years, he started his own business in 2013 and built his own film and television media company.
Although he is a typical “science and engineering guy” at work, Wu Jun has a dream of original animation: “to make better domestic animation.” Wu Jun said that domestic animation is his dream. A few years ago, he began to create an original cartoon called “Morning Love Duck”. Due to the need for further upgrading, the rising production costs have caused the company to encounter a development bottleneck.
In the process of animation creation, the early planning of the work, the polishing of the script, and the determination of the character style and animation, how to cleverly carry out mass production, are the most in need of R&D investment. As one of the earliest companies to use “Unreal Engine” to develop games and animations, Wu Jun found that it was becoming more and more “overwhelmed”. The creation of the script requires a lot of life experience and experience as well as a rich cognitive reserve; programmers must combine with art to produce better pictures than the market. These problems were suddenly solved after AIGC became popular last year.
According to the reporter, after the emergence of AIGC, only a small number of animation companies, film and television companies, and game companies used AI to intervene in creation. “The cost of script creation, from background design to character design, has been greatly reduced.” According to Wu Jun, the production cost of traditional animation was reduced by half after the introduction of AIGC.
“We will generate our own model to facilitate internal staff to use.” Wu Jun said that although his animation work is far from successful, the significant cost reduction has allowed this work to enter a long-term creation state. Wu Jun said: “At present, we are also cooperating with some educational institutions to combine creation with the latest AI to cultivate a new generation of AI creators – that is, creators who can deeply use AI to unleash their creativity as much as possible.”
Industry Outlook
AI talents are in high demand and salaries can easily reach hundreds of thousands of yuan
This year, AIGC continues to be prosperous. As of the end of April this year, 305 large models have been launched in China, including not only industry giants, but also six emerging “unicorn” companies such as Dark Side of the Moon, Baichuan Intelligence, Zero One Everything, MiniMax, Zhipu AI, and Step Star. In this competition between technology and capital, talent reserves have become the focus of competition among technology companies.
Liepin data shows that in the first quarter of this year, the number of AI-related positions increased by 321.7% year-on-year. At the same time, the number of talents applying for this field increased by an astonishing 946.84% year-on-year. Against this background, large model algorithm positions have become the most scarce positions in the market, with a talent supply-demand ratio of only 0.17, creating a fierce situation where 6 positions compete for 1 talent. In terms of salary, an annual salary of 500,000 to 700,000 yuan has become a common market, and an annual salary of one million yuan is not uncommon in the industry.
Globally, the salaries of software engineers in the AI field have been significantly higher than those in non-AI fields. According to data from Levels.fyi, an international salary data website, as of April this year, the median salary of AI software engineers in the United States was close to $300,000 (about RMB 2.17 million) – in comparison, the salaries of other non-AI software engineers were about $100,000 lower.
Journalist’s observation
If ordinary people want to understand AI, they must learn to use it
The many opportunities brought by AI belong not only to AI engineers, but also to every ordinary person. As Nvidia founder Huang Renxun believes, in the past 10 to 15 years, people have said that computer science and programming are what everyone should learn. But he believes that in fact the situation is almost completely the opposite, because the work of AI-related companies like Nvidia is precisely to create computing technology so that no one needs “programming” (in the traditional sense) and everyone in the world can become a programmer.
Obviously, AI is just a tool. How to use this tool to develop the business market is more important. Just like Jack Ma and Liu Qiangdong, both of whom majored in liberal arts, started their own businesses through the Internet. Facing the AI wave, ordinary people can understand and learn AI. AI is just an intelligent auxiliary means. We must learn how to communicate with AI, let it learn, and improve productivity. The results it creates are also constantly improved according to human thinking patterns.
At present, the thing that AI cannot replace the most is human creativity. For ordinary people to master AI, it is not to learn its technology, but to learn how to use it and let their own innovative thinking lead AI.
Related Policies
Seize the high ground of artificial intelligence development
Guangzhou frequently introduces favorable policies
Not long ago, the “Guangzhou Digital Economy High-Quality Development Plan” was released, proposing that Guangzhou will take the construction of a new and colorful global digital economy dynamic city as its development vision. Last year, the added value of Guangzhou’s core digital economy industries reached 394.6 billion yuan, an increase of 8.6% year-on-year, accounting for 12.8% of the city’s GDP. The core digital economy industries have become the pillar industries for Guangzhou’s high-quality economic development.
In 2021, the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology issued and implemented the “Guangzhou Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy Pilot Zone Industry Guidelines”. The guidelines apply to the construction and management of industrial, scientific and technological planning and talent supporting projects in the field of artificial intelligence and digital economy in the Guangzhou Pilot Zone. The Guangzhou Pilot Zone is located in the central urban area of Guangzhou. It selects Pazhou, Guangzhou University Town, Guangzhou International Financial City, Yuzhu and other contiguous areas with good foundations for the development of artificial intelligence and digital economy to build a spatial pattern of “one river, two banks and three districts”, with a total area of about 81 square kilometers.
In the same year, the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology issued the “Guangzhou National Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Application Pilot Zone Construction Plan”. The plan proposed to select industrial parks with good foundations and with artificial intelligence and big data as the leading development direction, continuously cultivate a number of characteristic industrial parks, and continuously expand the spatial layout of industrial development.
In the same year, the Guangzhou Science and Technology Bureau issued the Three-Year Action Plan for the High-Quality Development of Guangzhou’s Artificial Intelligence Industry Chain (2021-2023). The action plan focuses on the foundation and layout of Guangzhou’s artificial intelligence industry chain, and sorts out 13 major tasks from the four aspects of “solidifying the chain, strengthening the chain, supplementing the chain, and stabilizing the chain” to promote the high-quality development of the artificial intelligence industry and improve the level of advanced industrial foundation and modernization of the industrial chain.
Driven by a series of measures, Guangzhou’s magnetic attraction as a highland for innovation and application of artificial intelligence is obvious.
In April last year, the Pazhou Algorithm Library was officially opened, and the first batch of about 100 industrial algorithm models have been settled in. At the same time, Baidu PaddlePaddle (Guangzhou) Artificial Intelligence Industry Empowerment Center was established in the “Pazhou Algorithm Valley”. Guangzhou Digital Technology Group (Guangzhou Radio Group), with the support of the government, built the Guangzhou Artificial Intelligence Public Computing Center. Tree Root Interconnect has released an industrial Internet intelligent operating system for different scenarios to help companies build smart factories and digital enterprises based on AI algorithms. In the field of autonomous driving, an important application of artificial intelligence, Guangzhou has cultivated a number of world-leading companies such as Pony.ai and WeRide.
(Source: Information Times)
Source: Information Times
Original title: Some people made 1 million yuan in just a few months, and some expanded their AI business abroad… Young people who caught up with the AI trend made their first pot of gold
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