I know someone starting a masters under Yoshua Bengio at UdeM. It's been a great school for statistical machine translation for quite a while. I wonder what he'll be making in ten years.
A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonprofit
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> The overpaid genius, at the very least, has a preponderance of evidence that he understood all the math he’s using and has evidence he can innovate with it rather than regurgitating code (maybe that’s slightly too lenient) This assumes a separating equilibrium. There is one, of course, but it's biased against genius. Businesses don't want to overpay. Not should they. People don't negotiate their salaries. They shou…
Not sure what you mean by separating equilibrium... bimodal? I think we’re talking about different things. I’m comparing (in response to the parent) the devops guy with a few dl/ml side projects who is possibly skilled enough to join a data scientist team and contribute vs. a high ranking stem phd with a few years of experience who the devops guy may be supporting. Both can certainly undernegotiate, but they’re in di…
Bimodality can be evidence of a separating equilibrium, yes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separating_equilibrium
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signaling_game
The difference between the two you mention could be qualitative, as you imply, or it could be that some of the DS folks send the wrong signal. Not choosing a top-tier AI university would be a poor signal, and fail to differentiate quality candidates of equal ability.
It comes down to whether the mental model of meritocracy is actually practiced by the business world, which also includes whether screening performed by employers is accurate. It's not, ergo it stands to reason there are poor AI geniuses too.
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I applaud the positive spin, but the responses are due to the headline which suggests these salaries are normal. If an article said “supermarket checkout clerks are earning over $1m” and the article explained that a couple of retired property investors decided to work at a supermarket, would you respond the same? The harsh reality is, very few people will have the tenacity, intelligence, and opportunities to become a…
You're doing it again. If you truly believe you can't bring in that kind of money unless you're "top 20" then you're never going to try. And it's to your detriment, because there are a lot more than 20 people making that kind of money in software today. Note further that AI is in fact a subset of software. There is nothing magic about it that somebody like yourself or anybody else here can't pick up. You seem to grud…
I don’t believe your statement that AI is just a subset of software. It’s almost entirely math. Furthermore, “somebody like yourself or anybody else can’t pick it up” is wildly untrue. You realize that the people in the articles are researchers, not practitioners, right? They’re the Albert Einstein’s of the industry dreaming up new deviations and architectures. I think you’re severely downplaying what they’ve achieved.
You might as well say that Michael Schumacher just drives a car pretty well, so most of us could spend a bit of time in training and win F1
The reason I go out of my way to insist I can’t do that is that I’m not in my 20s, and it would be delusional of me to think AI is “nothing magic” and I can watch some YouTube videos to become the worlds best.
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More importantly, why did I bother to finish grad school?
If you could go back in time would you drop out?
In a hypothetical universe, I could've done a stats/cs double major in undergrad and dropped out of grad school after a year or two to go into data science, but in the real universe, data science wasn't a thing anyone in south louisiana had heard of in 2005, so I needed 10 years of phd+postdoc to find my way to it.