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AI Grant: Get $2,500 for your AI project

25 points by rmeertens 9y ago

rkaplan 9y ago
The AI Grant fellowship has been an awesome experience so far; I highly recommend applying if you're on the fence. The grant itself is useful (and this round includes $20k of Google cloud credits!) but equally valuable is the community that Nat has curated around the project. There are a lot of great folks working on AI from all sorts of places just a Slack message away. Now that Daniel Gross (YC's AI-focused partner) is involved as well, I'd expect that community to continue to grow.
- rmeertens 9y ago
  Care to elaborate on your experience? What project is yours? Also: what do you think it takes to get a project accepted?
Daviey 9y ago
The 10 Fellows below were chosen from more than 450 applicants. Each will receive $5,000 to pursue their project, no strings attached. ... Liam Atkinson, a neural network to generate puns. ... video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6vyIuwXNrQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6vyIuwXNrQ Solving the real problems... Would only be better if it also supported innuendo, and outputted the results as animated GIF's.
- mysterydip 9y ago
  I think it's great that the grant exists; it was the catalyst to get me working on my own project. But seeing the list of final qualifiers (many of whom boiled down to "use a neural network for x") left me disappointed. I was hoping to see some revolution, not evolution.
  - Swenrekcah 9y ago
    I think the point of those kinds of small grants is not to revolutionise anything, and not even to evolve anything necessarily. Rather I think the purpose is just exactly what you experienced. Get people off the metaphorical couch and start tinkering with the technology you want them to tinker with. If the grant can motivate them to spend their time on learning that technology then the grant-giver's goal is accomplished, for the very small price of $5000 per person.
    - mysterydip 9y ago
      I understand what you're saying. What I was meaning was I was hoping to see more variety in ideas. If they called it "mlgrant" then fine, no problem there. But AI is such a large field that I would've hoped to see tinkering in other areas.
gus_massa 9y ago
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14851806 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14851806 (167 points, 13 hours ago, 33 comments, currently #17 in the front page)

25 points by rmeertens 9y ago

The AI Grant fellowship has been an awesome experience so far; I highly recommend applying if you're on the fence. The grant itself is useful (and this round includes $20k of Google cloud credits!) but equally valuable is the community that Nat has curated around the project. There are a lot of great folks working on AI from all sorts of places just a Slack message away. Now that Daniel Gross (YC's AI-focused partner) is involved as well, I'd expect that community to continue to grow.

rmeertens 9y ago
Care to elaborate on your experience? What project is yours? Also: what do you think it takes to get a project accepted?

Daviey 9y ago

The 10 Fellows below were chosen from more than 450 applicants. Each will receive $5,000 to pursue their project, no strings attached. ... Liam Atkinson, a neural network to generate puns. ... video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6vyIuwXNrQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6vyIuwXNrQ Solving the real problems... Would only be better if it also supported innuendo, and outputted the results as animated GIF's.

mysterydip 9y ago
I think it's great that the grant exists; it was the catalyst to get me working on my own project. But seeing the list of final qualifiers (many of whom boiled down to "use a neural network for x") left me disappointed. I was hoping to see some revolution, not evolution.
- Swenrekcah 9y ago
  I think the point of those kinds of small grants is not to revolutionise anything, and not even to evolve anything necessarily. Rather I think the purpose is just exactly what you experienced. Get people off the metaphorical couch and start tinkering with the technology you want them to tinker with. If the grant can motivate them to spend their time on learning that technology then the grant-giver's goal is accomplished, for the very small price of $5000 per person.
  - mysterydip 9y ago
    I understand what you're saying. What I was meaning was I was hoping to see more variety in ideas. If they called it "mlgrant" then fine, no problem there. But AI is such a large field that I would've hoped to see tinkering in other areas.

gus_massa 9y ago

Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14851806 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14851806 (167 points, 13 hours ago, 33 comments, currently #17 in the front page)