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A few thousand smart people worldwide surrendering their more or less smart but however interesting AI ideas and their very own private psychometric data for a

by DrNuke 9y ago

A few thousand smart people worldwide surrendering their more or less smart but however interesting AI ideas and their very own private psychometric data for a lottery ticket (say 1-2% winning chance) worth $2500 + unnecessary internet services? Come on YC, you can do much better than that.

mciancia 9y ago
> unnecessary internet services GCE credit might be useful for running GPU instances for training
- mv4 9y ago
  You can get these from Google directly, or through one of the many accelerators and tech incubators - without providing all this data. As for CrowdFlower credits - I don't see why an aspiring AI company would want to build anything on top of another startup's technology stack, as opposed to building their own core tech.
  - defluyter 9y ago
    "You can get these from Google directly, or through one of the many accelerators and tech incubators" How?
    - mv4 9y ago
      ... by applying to their Startup program: https://cloud.google.com/developers/startups/ https://cloud.google.com/developers/startups/
      - chasedehan 9y ago
        Problem is that you have to be a part of one of the "current partners" so if you haven't joined an accelerator or have VC funding you don't get access. Unless I am mistaken. I'd be interested if I was able to find more credits for AWS/GCP/etc
aeorgnoieang 9y ago
> surrendering their more or less smart but however interesting AI ideas What does this mean? Telling AI Grant about the idea? That doesn't warrant describing it as "surrendering" if so.
- jakobegger 9y ago
  Yeah, you won‘t get far if you never tell anyone about your idea...
danicgross 9y ago
Hi DrNuke! A few thoughts: > surrendering their AI ideas Nobody is surrendering anything. The money is literally a gift. We have no rights in whatever they produce. > private psychometric data We have a personality test we’re experimenting with for future batches. We’re still making funding decisions based on the application for this batch. If you’d prefer to avoid filling it out, by all means! > unnecessary services I disagree! Money and $20,000 in GPU training time is worth a lot. Most of our prior Fellows put it to good use. > Come on YC This non-profit is unrelated to my role at YC. Please direct any frustration at me, not YC!
- dchichkov 9y ago
  You'd be a cool kid, if you'd sign an NDA. (edit. personally I do believe that you are truly just trying to push the A.I. tech forward and to stay current with the best ideas in the field.)
  - YeGoblynQueenne 9y ago
    Mnyeah. I guess you could call building a profile of your users (say, to sell to third parties) "staying current with the best ideas in the field". Kind of like "the best minds in a generation are trying to make people click on ads" etc.
- RosanaAnaDana 9y ago
  I think its cool. I also think there is a healthy culture of skepticism and mistrust on this message board. Will we be able to learn anything about the results of this raffle?

by DrNuke 9y ago

mciancia 9y ago

> unnecessary internet services GCE credit might be useful for running GPU instances for training

mv4 9y ago
You can get these from Google directly, or through one of the many accelerators and tech incubators - without providing all this data. As for CrowdFlower credits - I don't see why an aspiring AI company would want to build anything on top of another startup's technology stack, as opposed to building their own core tech.
- defluyter 9y ago
  "You can get these from Google directly, or through one of the many accelerators and tech incubators" How?
  - mv4 9y ago
    ... by applying to their Startup program: https://cloud.google.com/developers/startups/ https://cloud.google.com/developers/startups/
    - chasedehan 9y ago
      Problem is that you have to be a part of one of the "current partners" so if you haven't joined an accelerator or have VC funding you don't get access. Unless I am mistaken. I'd be interested if I was able to find more credits for AWS/GCP/etc

aeorgnoieang 9y ago

> surrendering their more or less smart but however interesting AI ideas What does this mean? Telling AI Grant about the idea? That doesn't warrant describing it as "surrendering" if so.

jakobegger 9y ago
Yeah, you won‘t get far if you never tell anyone about your idea...

danicgross 9y ago

Hi DrNuke! A few thoughts: > surrendering their AI ideas Nobody is surrendering anything. The money is literally a gift. We have no rights in whatever they produce. > private psychometric data We have a personality test we’re experimenting with for future batches. We’re still making funding decisions based on the application for this batch. If you’d prefer to avoid filling it out, by all means! > unnecessary services I disagree! Money and $20,000 in GPU training time is worth a lot. Most of our prior Fellows put it to good use. > Come on YC This non-profit is unrelated to my role at YC. Please direct any frustration at me, not YC!

dchichkov 9y ago
You'd be a cool kid, if you'd sign an NDA. (edit. personally I do believe that you are truly just trying to push the A.I. tech forward and to stay current with the best ideas in the field.)
- YeGoblynQueenne 9y ago
  Mnyeah. I guess you could call building a profile of your users (say, to sell to third parties) "staying current with the best ideas in the field". Kind of like "the best minds in a generation are trying to make people click on ads" etc.
RosanaAnaDana 9y ago
I think its cool. I also think there is a healthy culture of skepticism and mistrust on this message board. Will we be able to learn anything about the results of this raffle?