Don't Let HR Say You Can't Afford a Head of AI

An attendee tries out an application on a SoftBank Group Corp. Pepper humanoid robot at the SoftBank Robot World 2017 in Tokyo, Japan.Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg

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By Benjamin D Katz

January 24, 2018 at 3:20 PM UTC

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Companies need to start breaking bank to win over artificial intelligence experts from the tech giants -- but it’s worth it.

“Don’t let HR tell you” the company can’t afford the salaries, said Kai-Fu Lee, the founder of startup incubator Sinovation Ventures and former China head for Google, at the World Economic Forum in Davos Wednesday.