The field of artificial intelligence has been on the rise recently, and experts who are dedicated to its research are being well-rewarded for their meritorious work. He has also decided to invest in AI Elon Musk, who, among other things, founded the platform OpenAIResearchers here can earn a respectable $1,9 million (almost 40 million crowns). At least that's what the chief researcher earns annually.
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A little or a lot?
In a statement to The New York The Times reported Ilya Sustskever, a senior researcher OpenAIthat he received more interesting offers from other companies, work for OpenAI But for him, it represents a certain challenge in the form of open sharing of work as part of the effort for a safe AI revolution.
"I turned down offers that were several times higher than the salary offered by OpenAI. And so did the others. I expect that salaries in OpenAI will grow as the organization continues its mission of ensuring the benefits of artificial intelligence for humanity," said Sutskever.
In the first years of its existence, the company spent OpenAI $11 million, of which $XNUMX million went to employee salaries and benefits. At the time, it worked for OpenAI 52 people. The salary that OpenAI Ilya Sutskever may look interesting, other employeesancbut they receive significantly less – Ian Goodfellow, whom OpenAI hired in March 2016, he received $800 a year for his work. Pieter Abbeel, a professor of robotics at the University of California, was paid an annual salary of $16. All salaries listed include benefits.
The fact that salaries also play a role OpenAI is a non-profit organization that provides its employeesanccannot offer additional benefits in the form of stock shares, which is something that is a given for other companies focused not only on artificial intelligence.
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When demand exceeds supply
In recent years, artificial intelligence researchers' salaries have been rising along with the demand in the field. Chris Nicholson, CEO and founder of Skymind, stated that there are only a select few with real skills in this area, and the number will not meet the demand for some time. “Demand is very high and difficult to meet. The demand for talent is growing faster than its current supply as artificial intelligence moves rapidly towards widespread use,” says Nicholson.
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Since 2016, some experts have also been transferred to other positions. Ian Goodfellow returned to Google, Pieter Abbeel co-founded a startup called Embodied IntelligenceAndrej Karpathy has moved on from OpenAI to head Tesla's artificial intelligence division. But of course, it wasn't for financial reasons.
Dollar 10 kc? It dropped a lot when it was around 20 kc recently :o :D