What they really wanted to understand: how much does AI pay? Being an AI-infused chatbot you would expect Smart Answers to know, and fuelled by decades of human reportage, know it does.
Tech professionals with AI expertise earn approximately 18% more than their counterparts without these skills, says Smart Answers. AI engineers experienced over a 12% salary growth compared to the previous year, while mid-level AI workers saw a 20% increase. Employers are willing to pay as much as 47% more for IT professionals who possess generative AI skills.
Smart Answers' advice for becoming gen AI ready includes effective and connected data storage, retrieval, and processing, supported by a well-structured data architecture. Risk governance is essential,as is a focus on long-term strategy, quality data, and clear objectives, ensuring alignment across teams for a successful AI program.
This prompted said readers to delve into the wider benefits of a strong data-management strategy. As well as providing a strong platform for AI success, consistent and uniform data leads to better, more comprehensive decision support. Clear rules for data processes enhance business and IT agility and scalability and central control mechanisms reduce costs in other areas of data management.
Smart Answers is an AI-based chatbot tool designed to help you discover content, answer questions, and go deep on the topics that matter to you. Each week we send you the three most popular questions asked by our readers, and the answers Smart Answers provides.
Developed in partnership with Miso.ai, Smart Answers draws only on editorial content from our network of trusted media brands—CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World—and was trained on questions that a savvy enterprise IT audience would ask. The result is a fast, efficient way for you to get more value from our content.
