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>>davidb+(OP)
Ilya booted him https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725702501435941294

>>johnwh+Uc1
This should be higher voted. Seems like an internal power struggle between the more academic types and the commercial minded sides of OpenAI.

I bet Sam goes and founds a company to take on OpenAI…and wins.

>>dannyk+Le1
I bet not (we could bet with play money on manifold.markets I would bet to 10% probability). Because you need the talent, the chips, the IP development, the billions. He could get the money but the talent is going to be hard unless he has a great narrative.

>>quickt+4J1
I'll sell my soul for about $600K/yr. Can't say I'm at the top of the AI game but I did graduate with a "concentration in AI" if that counts for anything.

>>erhaet+gO1
That is "normal"/low-end IC6 pay at a tech company, the ML researchers involved here are pulling well into the millions.

>>xvecto+xS1
your comment is close to dead, when you talk public open facts.

shows that the demographic here is alienated when it came to their own compensation market value.

>>fyokdr+382
It's definitely alien to me. How do these people get paid so much?

* Uber-geniuses that are better than the rest of us pleb software engineers

* Harder workers than the rest of us

* Rich parents -> expensive school -> elite network -> amazing pay

* Just lucky

>>garden+aZ2
Most companies don't pay that, step 1 is identifying the companies that do and focusing your efforts on them exclusively. This will depend on where you live, or on your remote opportunities.

Step 2 is gaining the skills they are looking for. Appropriate language/framework/skill/experience they optimize for.

Step 3 is to prepare for their interview process, which is often quite involved. But they pay well, so when they say jump, you jump.

I'm not saying you'll find $600k as a normal pay, that's quite out of touch unless you're in Silicon Valley (and even then). But you'll find (much) higher than market salary.