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Is there anything a non-AI researcher can do to help support this project? Is there a way to donate money? Or could a software engineer help with testing, tooli
by choxi 6y ago
Is there anything a non-AI researcher can do to help support this project? Is there a way to donate money? Or could a software engineer help with testing, tooling, or other kinds of infrastructure?
I was really excited about OpenAI's original plan and still believe that an open source solution is the best way to prevent the potential negative impacts AI might have on society. I can sort of appreciate why OpenAI went the route of going private and trying to monetize their work instead, it might prevent people from using their work nefariously and will probably provide them with way more capital to continue their efforts. But, I trust humanity as a collective more than any particular group of people in the long run. I'm sure there are many others like me who would be eager to help out if they could.
Edit: EleutherAI has a whole page on their site about how others can contribute: https://www.eleuther.ai/get-involved/ https://www.eleuther.ai/get-involved/. I didn't see anything about accepting donations though, if anyone involved with the project was interested in setting up a crowdfunding account somewhere I'd be eager to donate.
- zmix 6y agoYou may indirectly support the project by supporting the host, that hosts their data, https://the-eye.eu https://the-eye.eu Right on the front they write: > Hey there fans! We are currently looking for help funding large storage upgrades, > if you want to help us serve more data see our donation options (crypto, etc) > Thanks for reading, happy downloading!
- stellaathena 6y agoThe Eye has been a phenomenal partner and enables a lot of what we do. In addition to providing terabytes of storage for free, they also help us out with CPU from time to time.
- dannyw 6y agoThe Eye stores amazing and important archives. Drives the data hoarding community.
- punnerud 6y agoIndirectly they say you can donate money, in the form of computation that can be rented: “As an independent organization, we are dependent upon donations for our computing costs. We are always interested in speaking with people who can donate compute times.”