> ML is the ultimate winner-take all technology. Hence the flood of ML grads which will only get bigger and bigger as time goes on. As a general observation o

> ML is the ultimate winner-take all technology. Hence the flood of ML grads which will only get bigger and bigger as time goes on. As a general observation of business, returns per unit of labor can range from completely linear (factories, hospitals) to more nonlinear in things like software or art. ML researcher is on the far end of this. Yes, Bengio and Goodfellow get paid 7 figures, but that's because even if you pay 100 amateurs 1/100th of that, they will still produce worse work. If you want to be a good ML researcher, the time to get in was 10 years ago.