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The 10 Fellows below were chosen from more than 450 applicants. Each will receive $5,000 to pursue their project, no strings attached. ... Liam Atkinso
by 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.
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Liam Atkinson, a neural network to generate puns.
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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 agoI 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 agoI 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 agoI 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.