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This wave of hate starts looking funny already. Facebook pays researchers decent salaries? Let's say it "pressures local universities".

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OTOH, having many of our most brilliant minds all working on putting more ads in front of more eyes to get more clicks isn't such a great thing.

hmm, they will develop more intelligent systems which will have applications in all domains.

Scenario: a well-placed middle manager has a mid-life crisis and authorizes a skunkworks project to have an AI surreptitiously replace them while they travel the world. When other managers discover this, they demand their own AI surrogates rather than reporting the scheme to the C-suite. When this is eventually exposed, FB collapses in a firestorm of controversy, only for its investors to quietly start a bunch of new companies intentionally based on AI management. Eventually Accelerando, I guess.

A generation of brilliance wasted on surveillance technology.

Is $180,000/year not a decent salary in the Seattle area?

Not for top AI talent. That starts at $400k/yr

Hope they save because "AI" won't be hot past 2020.

Au contraire, my friend, it’s only in the beginning of an upward hockey stick.

You mean because it'll take all our jobs, including programming AI? ;)

What makes you think that? Media? What are you including under the umbrella of AI? ML, Deep Learning? Are you in the industry?

What industry?

I sell AI robots and its bullshit

Ah, different use case then as opposed to using AI or ML for drug discovery.

I agree, robots are hit and miss

I will make sure to revisit this comment in 2020.

AI won't disappear definitely. However, more graduates will enter market as we move forward. Thus there will be more supply than demand which leads to drop in salaries.

This has happened in many markets in recent years. Don't you recall big data hype around 2007? You would be considered as God if you can barely install Hadoop back then.

Competent big data folks still pull down $300-400k fairly easily. I’m talking about people who _really_ understand the field and have a track record, not “graduates with a degree”.

starts at 400k? where do you get that number? I can imagine a director 3 type position, which would be true for most fields. But interviewing, talking with recruiters, and looking at salaries on glass door, facebook pays a median 130k. Amazon pays closer to the 100k side with a maximum of 165k, an absolute ceiling that shall not be passed. There is stock, but even being equal to base, still no where near a starting 400k

Someone coming in as a research scientist (ie, the people that would have become professors) is going to be making more.

We pay this much to strong PhDs with a good publication record. So do Google and FB. Must be able to code really well, though.

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