AIGrant: Get $5,000 for your open source AI project

  • Hi HN! I'm happy to answer any questions. I'm also open to feedback if there are suggestions.

    I was inspired to try this experiment by Nadia Eghbal's grant program: https://medium.com/@nayafia/5-000-no-strings-attached-9e7b95...

  • What I find surprisingly appealing is, the open source heroes that I grew up with, nat friedman in this case, are pushing towards AI / deep-learning. It feels as if "hackers", who previously flocking towards open-source software are gravitating towards AI, stats, machine learning etc.

    I am open to scurry along and move to this new place where the cheese is.

  • What if applicant personally doesn't have any previous experience with AI-related technologies. But has a strong affinity towards learning them. Also If he/she has a really good idea.Will it be okay? or the ones with previous experience will be preferred?

  • I just submitted my application. Would it be possible to add a notification that the application has been successfully submitted? Perhaps that is not possible with the package you are using.

  • Has anybody looked at ThoughtTreasure? Since Nat is willing to accept updates to Open Source Software, this amazing code base would be a good start of AI related stuff. It really could use a better user interface to its databases, for example. Or a tie to WikiData. There are several good things that could be added to it.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThoughtTreasure

  • @Nat: Any thoughts on a project using AI to do real-time noise reduction, signal identification, and signal extraction in a controlled environment?

    To get an idea of what a more complex version would look like, which is closed source, see:

    http://cyphercorp.com

  • Great initiative! Always good to see more support for open-source and for AI tooling.

  • Are you looking for more academic/business/cloud cases, or would advancements in game AI be an option as well?

  • Kind of a loaded question, but what do you mean by 'AI' other than developing an algorithm that makes a computer look 'smart'?

  • Very cool!

  • Mind doing the same for hardware projects using an open source OS?

    A pal I know could use half of that just to set up the legal structure of his outfit.