The Amount of Money A.I. Researchers Earn Will Shock You

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 -- and it's 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 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 New York Times reported. 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.