Allegedly there is a shortage of skilled high tech labor – I’ll bet there is when you offer them crap wages like this! They’ll claim they cannot find anyone and must hire H-1B visa temporary workers from abroad.
In economics, a shortage of labor means you cannot find what you want at the price you are willing to pay.
We’re seeking PhDs and research mathematicians to evaluate and improve AI learning systems at Outlier.
Example project: Evaluating how AI models handle mathematical proofs. You’ll analyze their solutions to theorems like the Intermediate Value Theorem, identifying logical gaps and faulty assumptions in their reasoning.
Benefits:
✅Flexible remote research work
✅$30-50/hour rate
✅Direct impact on AI development
✅Start within 7 days
They want people with a Masters degree or higher and imply that Masters level candidates will get paid $30/hour and Ph.D.s might get up to $50/hour. Both are less than the average pay for RNs in my state, just below the average for electricians and well below the pay for plumbers.
Oregon’s minimum wage is currently about $16/hour in the metro area
In nearby Seattle, the minimum wage is almost $21/hour.
For up 8+ extra years of university and graduate studies, you can earn $30/hour. A little math (and these are people with math degrees!) tells this will have a negative return on investment relative to taking a minimum wage job or a blue collar job with 2 years of community college training, or a paid apprenticeship. Or you could take on a few hundred thousand in student loans, and forego working and income for up to 8 years – in order to make $30/hour.
Sure that makes sense.
One wonders if Outlier.AI is more involved in artificial stupidity than artificial intelligence …
