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Chapter Four - Right People
Yann LeCun, a French professor from New York University.
LeCun studied computer deep learning starting in the
1980s. Google recruited Li Feifei, a Chinese-born expert of
computer vision at the Stanford University in 2016; Yoshua
Bengio, an expert in artificial neural networks in Canada,
promised to assist Microsoft. Enterprises have also set up
laboratories around the world to attract talent. For example,
Tencent has set up an AI lab in Seattle, U.S. and Baidu has
a lab in Silicon Valley as well.
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A mountain of demand has caused the salaries and
bonuses of AI experts to rise. DeepMind, a software
development company that beat the world GO champion,
has an average annual salary of USD340,000 (approx.
HK$2.67 million) each for its 400 employees. Baidu’s
Young Leader Programme screens young people below
the age of 30. The outstanding scientists even in training
are offered an annual salary of at least RMB 1 million
(approx. HK$ 1.22 million). For inexperienced Al-related
positions in the market, the average monthly salary in the