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Soaring Salaries in AI Research
OpenAI paid its top researcher, Ilya Sutskever, more than $1.9 million in 2016.
Credit: The New York Times
Salaries for top artificial intelligence researchers have skyrocketed because there are not many people who understand the technology and thousands of companies want to work with it.
A tax filing by OpenAI shows that the research lab paid its top researcher, Ilya Sutskever, more than $1.9 million in 2016. It paid another leading researcher, Ian Goodfellow, more than $800,000.
Element AI, an independent lab in Canada, estimates that 22,000 people worldwide have the skills needed to do serious A.I. research—about double from a year ago.
"There is a mountain of demand and a trickle of supply," says Chris Nicholson, the chief executive and founder of Skymind, a start-up working on A.I.
That raises significant issues for universities and governments.
From The New York Times
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