The AI Grant fellowship has been an awesome experience so far; I highly recommend applying if you're on the fence. The grant itself is useful (and this round includes $20k of Google cloud credits!) but equally valuable is the community that Nat has curated around the project. There are a lot of great folks working on AI from all sorts of places just a Slack message away. Now that Daniel Gross (YC's AI-focused partner) is involved as well, I'd expect that community to continue to grow.
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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Solving the real problems...
Would only be better if it also supported innuendo, and outputted the results as animated GIF's.
Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14851806 (167 points, 13 hours ago, 33 comments, currently #17 in the front page)