I’m curious about this too. I actually have the sense that overall funding for AI alignment was already larger than overall shovel-ready projects before FTX was involved. This is normal and expected in a field that many people is working on an important problem but where most of the work is funding for research, and where hardly anyone has promising scalable uses for money.
I think this led a lot of prizes being announced. A prize is a good way to fund if you don’t see enough shovel-ready projects to exhaust your funding. You offer prizes for anyone who can formulate and execute new projects, hence enticing people who weren’t previously working on the problem to start working on the problem. This is a pretty good approach IMO.
With the collapse of FTX, I guess a bunch of prizes will go away.
I’m curious about this too. I actually have the sense that overall funding for AI alignment was already larger than overall shovel-ready projects before FTX was involved. This is normal and expected in a field that many people is working on an important problem but where most of the work is funding for research, and where hardly anyone has promising scalable uses for money.
I think this led a lot of prizes being announced. A prize is a good way to fund if you don’t see enough shovel-ready projects to exhaust your funding. You offer prizes for anyone who can formulate and execute new projects, hence enticing people who weren’t previously working on the problem to start working on the problem. This is a pretty good approach IMO.
With the collapse of FTX, I guess a bunch of prizes will go away.
What else? I’m interested.