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

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Post by cocoablazing »

ggg9990 wrote: post #53
mmartinson wrote: post #11

"Mr. Zaremba said big tech companies were offering him two or three times what he believed his real market value was" Seems this fellow knows a whole lot more about computers than he does markets hahaha

If Bill Gates takes a fancy to a $100,000 mountain cabin and the owner doesn’t want to sell, he could offer $10 million for it, but that doesn’t increase the market value of the cabin.

10MM is exactly the market value of the cabin, for as long as the bid stands.

Once the owner accepts that bid, the liquidity in the market has been completely taken, and the likely future market value reverts to ~100,000.

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Post by etaioinshrdlu »

roymurdock wrote: post #144
JonRB wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Genuinely curious - what do you do?

He puts smart assets on a blockchain and controls them with AI https://hydrachain.io/

I thought this was a joke, but it turns out to be true. This is the world we live in.

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Post by najra »

gaius wrote: post #153
matte_black wrote: post #126

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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?

There is something I see on LinkedIn from people I happen to know never graduated: they list the years they were at university and their subject. It’s not technically lying, and most people never notice.

would also be weird to omit the years entirely tho, right?

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Post by weavie »

kilbuz wrote: post #58
GFischer wrote: post #42

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So I can do 800 credit card transactions a second I should get a 100x raise? I knew I was underpaid, but not that much ! :P

Close. You need to build a product with which 800 people per second want to perform a credit card transaction.

Easily done if you don't care which way the transaction goes!

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Post by yoz-y »

kisstheblade wrote: post #123

And I have yet to see any "AI" worth anything. Some image recognition and rudimentary translation engines maybe, but "AI", way overhyped.

AI is driving cars and planes, beating experts at disease diagnostic, ruining popular competitive board games... But as the definition goes, anything that can be done today is already old hat.

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Post by skj »

1024core wrote: post #132
make3 wrote: post #130

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

> and dropped out of grad school.

Both masters and PhD students attend grad school to get their degree, so this isn't really disambiguating.

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Post by dibstern »

7figures wrote: post #112
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…

You have to actually be good at it, but I'm not famous, and I make over seven figures annually as an AI researcher at one of the big companies. True talent is extremely rare as well as lucrative. That said, I'm glad I turned down openAI's offer of only $200K. Yikes. Ilya is better than I am, but not 10x better.

Can you give indicators of how good you are? Just to help people understand what ‘good’ and sill getting 1M+ actually means

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Post by gaius »

najra wrote: post #163
gaius wrote: post #153

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There is something I see on LinkedIn from people I happen to know never graduated: they list the years they were at university and their subject. It’s not technically lying, and most people never notice.

would also be weird to omit the years entirely tho, right?

Not really, if they were right at the beginning of your career - quite normal for people to trim their CVs like that, esp. these days.

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Post by sjg007 »

shams93 wrote: post #149
tomrod wrote: post #69

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

Yeah I make 100k and live in Los Angeles sometimes I can't eat food I work remote so my coworkers outside cifornia don't have it too bad. But despite 30 years of experience I'm hardly worth enough to this society to let me eat food or have a roof over my head. 100k is about average for LA but at one point I had a job that paid me only 45k with no benefits demanding I generate a sentiment analysis system I literally h…

You should be able to get more but it would probably require moving to Riot, Snap or Google. You would want multiple offers etc... I would go the personal network approach if possible with 30 years experience.

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Post by sjg007 »

malux85 wrote: post #79
alexbeloi wrote: post #65

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Why does a payment gateway need deep learning? I can't imagine an online betting system doing fraud detection on deposits.

It was a bit simplistic of me to summarize it as a payment gateway, it was actually 50-60% of their backend systems that was enhanced, it was called their "Big Data Project" They do do fraud detection on the deposits, because of anti-money-laundering. The DL models also monitor various other types of abuse (bonus abuse and in-game abusers). They also are experimenting with Deep Reenforcement Learning to actually play…

I thought bots weren't allowed? Also a DL bot by the house would probably have an unfair advantage.
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