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A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonprofit

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Post by vvanders »

edraferi wrote: post #106
jessaustin wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't think I knew anything about ML, yet I seem to have passed all three tests... b^)

If you know linear algebra, machine learning is not much further to go. You can understand pretty much all the models by looking under the hood at the math. At that point it’s just experience to learn the rules of thumb that guide practical implementations.

That was my experience building a simple morse code decoder. Actually spent more time fighting the spectograph resolution than the ML part.

I also learned real quick that I don't want to do ML. It's all about data generation/sanitation/management which just doesn't click for me.

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Post by Trundle »

kazinator wrote: post #17
mmagin wrote: post #15

It isn't really notable that someone makes salary "at a nonprofit". Nonprofit doesn't really mean charity.

Charity also doesn't mean zero salary, does it?

It doesn't, but it does tend to mean heavily reduced salary because part of the employees compensation is the warm fuzzies they get.

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Post by nerdponx »

salarydata wrote: post #88
blackbagboys wrote: post #23

So a tiny handful of top performers - plausibly few enough that you could fit them all on a schoolbus - in an ultra-hot technical field are raking in huge sums, for the moment. Unless you are a top professor at an R1 research university or have a PhD from an R1 university studying under the other top minds in the field or are otherwise in the most elite fraction of the profession, it doesn't sound like this is partic…

$300k. I work at Google, have a few good papers, and a couple years of professional experience, and dropped out of grad school. TBH not really clear that I'm doing much better than peers without ML expertise.

Google is still the top of the field. Many people go entire careers without publishing a paper. You are probably smarter than average and get paid accordingly.

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Post by visarga »

tedsanders wrote: post #87
nl wrote: post #63

Well... I’m going to be the one to say it. Ian Goodfellow is underpaid at 800K.

Genuinely curious: How do you come to that conclusion? What is the output he produced at OpenAI and how do you measure its value?

He opened up two subfields of AI, GANs and adversarial attacks, and coauthored one of the most recommended books. His fame attracts more researchers and for lower salary, just to work with him.

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Post by matte_black »

bonniemuffin wrote: post #118
p1esk wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why did you drop out of grad school?

More importantly, why did I bother to finish grad school?

If you drop out of grad school is there a way to prove you were ever actually even in grad school? Or can anyone say they were in grad school but just didn’t finish?

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Post by jessaustin »

killjoywashere wrote: post #109
jessaustin wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't think I knew anything about ML, yet I seem to have passed all three tests... b^)

But, grasshopper, you have not passed the third test. Where is your question?

Haha. I guess if I had to ask any question about python, it would be, "why on earth did they do that ridiculous unicode thing in version 3?" Most builtins should use bytes, and the few that can't should just use bytes annotated with an encoding.

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Post by 773js »

moresalarydata wrote: post #90
tomrod wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From what I've seen, away from the coasts between $70k - $100k. PhD adds about 25k-40k to the figure, depending on industry.

Counterpoint: I'm a data scientist in the Midwest with a non-CS bachelor's degree, earning $125k base.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but Research Scientist in AI and Data Scientist are completely different jobs.

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Post by make3 »

salarydata wrote: post #88
blackbagboys wrote: post #23

So a tiny handful of top performers - plausibly few enough that you could fit them all on a schoolbus - in an ultra-hot technical field are raking in huge sums, for the moment. Unless you are a top professor at an R1 research university or have a PhD from an R1 university studying under the other top minds in the field or are otherwise in the most elite fraction of the profession, it doesn't sound like this is partic…

$300k. I work at Google, have a few good papers, and a couple years of professional experience, and dropped out of grad school. TBH not really clear that I'm doing much better than peers without ML expertise.

were you doing your master's or your phd when you dropped out. likely phd but just curious
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