Applied! This is ridiculously timely as I am quitting my job at the end of this month to take up independent research in general AI.
Show HN: AI Grant – Non-profit, distributed AI research lab
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#22From the application: > What's your background? In particular anything that would help convince us that you're actually capable of finishing your project. > Project description: Describe your project, including: where you got the idea, how you think others might use it, and how it is new/different/better than what already exists. This is the main answer we use to judge applications. These questions make the grant see…
> The people who are skilled enough at machine learning/deep learning to receive the grant would be able to be employed at any relevant company for their research. Yes, but maybe some of those people want to work on a side project in their free time. And if you work in deep learning you need some resources to train your models, so any help is welcome.
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Re: Show HN: AI Grant – Non-profit, distributed AI research lab
#23Pretty cool. Would apply, but don't have the technical chops just yet (Medical school is intense). Do you think you guys will run this again if it turns out to be fruitful?
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#24Pretty cool. Would apply, but don't have the technical chops just yet (Medical school is intense). Do you think you guys will run this again if it turns out to be fruitful?
Yes!
Re: Show HN: AI Grant – Non-profit, distributed AI research lab
#25I'm serving as an advisor to a philanthropist interested in applying AI and ML to scientific and societal challenges - let me know if you'd like to chat!
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#26You know, I might have misread what you're offering here when I submitted an application a minute ago, but what I was really hoping was that you would be able to put me in touch with researchers in the field who would answer my emails about whether the research topics I was considering were interesting and promising or not and could help me navigate the academic publication process. The monetary pieces of this grant…
You could try emailing the authors of some related research papers or professors at your next university. That's basically how I found the advisor for my undergraduate thesis. I had an idea, looked through the CS department's website to find the ML researcher whose work was most similar, then emailed him a proposal.
You will probably have to make an effort to differentiate yourself from crackpots and demonstrate pre-existing knowledge of the field. In my case I had to answer a number of questions of the form "I think you may not be aware of XYZ, which is quite similar to your idea." with "The paper on XYZ inspired my idea, but I'm trying something different."
A targeted venue that pre-selects for researchers willing to spend their time on mentoring others (who are not officially their students) could help, but it would still have to deal with the crackpot problem.
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#27IMO what would actually drive AI breakthroughs is to support people on a large time scale so they can quit their applied AI/ NLP/ Computer Vision jobs and focus full time on their moonshot research endeavor. For example, I work in AI, and this is not a useful proposal for me, in particular. But I do have at least a couple crazy AI ideas that might take > a year to develop, and I can imagine nothing better than a grant I could live on for a year and develop the AI. I know I'm not the only one. Someone mentioned a catch-22 with this idea, have to agree.
Re: Show HN: AI Grant – Non-profit, distributed AI research lab
#28IMO what would actually drive AI breakthroughs is to support people on a large time scale so they can quit their applied AI/ NLP/ Computer Vision jobs and focus full time on their moonshot research endeavor. For example, I work in AI, and this is not a useful proposal for me, in particular. But I do have at least a couple crazy AI ideas that might take > a year to develop, and I can imagine nothing better than a gran…
Have you considered academia?
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#29IMO what would actually drive AI breakthroughs is to support people on a large time scale so they can quit their applied AI/ NLP/ Computer Vision jobs and focus full time on their moonshot research endeavor. For example, I work in AI, and this is not a useful proposal for me, in particular. But I do have at least a couple crazy AI ideas that might take > a year to develop, and I can imagine nothing better than a gran…
Have you considered academia?
Oh God no. The last thing in the world I want is to all of a sudden have to be publishing a ton of marginally useful crap or spend time reviewing others' marginally useful crap being sold as contributions because they have to publish. Or working with students. Why? I already have my big ideas, I have enough education and experience in the field to do stuff on my own, I just need a lot of time to hack on stuff and experiment.
I know I'm not the only one.
Re: Show HN: AI Grant – Non-profit, distributed AI research lab
#30IMO what would actually drive AI breakthroughs is to support people on a large time scale so they can quit their applied AI/ NLP/ Computer Vision jobs and focus full time on their moonshot research endeavor. For example, I work in AI, and this is not a useful proposal for me, in particular. But I do have at least a couple crazy AI ideas that might take > a year to develop, and I can imagine nothing better than a gran…
Have you considered academia?
Due to the publication requirements/incentives, academia greatly favours those who take on short term low risk research that will likely result in a few quick easy papers. Furthermore, due to the limited positions available in academia, generally only those who are good at this will rise up in academia.
Getting to a point where you control your own research and have financial stability for research that could span 3+ years with very little output (paper wise) is something comparatively few academics achieve. Even fewer of those who have, did so by conducting longer term research. Most academics I know are just trying to produce as many papers per year as they can and do whatever research in their field they can do, to do it.