{"id":77947,"date":"2018-04-20T19:42:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T02:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/the-amount-of-money-a-i-researchers-earn-will-shock-you"},"modified":"2018-04-20T19:42:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T02:42:24","slug":"the-amount-of-money-a-i-researchers-earn-will-shock-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/the-amount-of-money-a-i-researchers-earn-will-shock-you","title":{"rendered":"The Amount of Money A.I. Researchers Earn Will Shock You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-amount-of-money-a-i-researchers-earn-will-shock-you.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers in artificial intelligence can stand to make a ton of money. But this week, we actually know just how much some A.I. experts are being paid \u2014 and it\u2019s a lot, even at a nonprofit.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI, a nonprofit research lab, paid its lead A.I. expert, Ilya Sutskever, more than $1.9 million in 2016, according to a recent public tax filing. Another researcher, Ian Goodfellow, made more than $800,000 that year, even though he was only hired in March, the<em> New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/19\/technology\/artificial-intelligence-salaries-openai.html\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As the publication points out, the figures are eye-opening and offer a bit of insight on how much A.I. researchers are being paid across the globe. Normally, this kind of data isn\u2019t readily accessible. But since OpenAI is a nonprofit organization, it\u2019s required by law to make these figures public.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idropnews.com\/news\/fast-tech\/the-amount-of-money-a-i-researchers-earn-will-shock-you\/69796\/\">https:\/\/www.idropnews.com\/news\/fast-tech\/the-amount-of-money...you\/69796\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in artificial intelligence can stand to make a ton of money. But this week, we actually know just how much some A.I. experts are being paid \u2014 and it\u2019s a lot, even at a nonprofit. OpenAI, a nonprofit research lab, paid its lead A.I. expert, Ilya Sutskever, more than $1.9 million in 2016, according [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1496,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-law","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}