AI jobs plateau suggests we're embracing skills
The PwC AI Jobs Barometer, released on Tuesday, showed that after a big jump in job listings for AI-skilled workers between 2020 (12,000 listings) and 2021 (23,000), the number has been locked in a holding pattern in the years since.
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