“I turned down offers for multiple times the dollar amount I accepted at OpenAI,” Mr. Sutskever said. Researchers like Mr. Sutskever specialize in what are called neural networks, complex algorithms that learn tasks by analyzing vast amounts of data. Mr. Sutskever was part of a three-researcher team at the University of Toronto that created key so-called computer vision technology. “If anything, demand for that talent is growing faster than the supply of new researchers, because A.I. Last year, after only 11 months at OpenAI, Mr. Goodfellow returned to Google.

Source: New York Times April 19, 2018 21:16 UTC