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		7figures on April 20, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at... 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.

icedchocolate on April 20, 2018 [–]

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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