>Not really. Those salaries are there to keep these smart people from doing something world-changing I think it is more due to the fact there is still a relati

>Not really. Those salaries are there to keep these smart people from doing something world-changing I think it is more due to the fact there is still a relatively few number of people with a decent amount of experience in this field. Didn't OpenAI, a couple of few years ago, poach one of Google's employees for something like a million in compensation over x years? Edit: yeah: >Tax filings by the Elon Musk-founded research lab OpenAI revealed that its best researchers are paid top dollar for their expertise. In 2016 alone, OpenAI paid Ilya Sutskever, its top researcher, an impressive salary of $1.9 million. https://www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-openai-paid-top-researcher-1-9-million-2017/ https://www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-openai-paid-top-research...