There is some "academic money", but fairly small amounts.
Most of the money comes from a few billionaires worried about extinction risks.
Much of it goes to private non-profits, not universities.
They have good intentions but are unwittingly causing a lot of damage.
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Billionaire Funding for AI Extinction Risk Research Causes Unintended Damage
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Tech Giants Battle for AI Assistant Distribution Dominance
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AGI.eth Unruggable Subnames: World’s Most Coveted Web3 Asset
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AGI.eth Unruggable Subnames: World’s Most Coveted Web3 Asset
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.agi.eth [ U N R U G G A B L E S U B N A M E S ] AGI.Eth “World's Most Coveted #AGI Web3 Asset” . . . YourName.AGI.Eth Mint : 0.06 Eth Example : .agi.eth : https://
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Databricks Delivers 482% ROI Supporting AI and LLM Development
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Our customers saw a 482% ROI over three years, but how did they do it? Find out how Databricks is able to support the development of #AI and #LLMs, streaming data ingestion and transformation, and more! https://
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Monday Trading Strategy: Investment Decisions in AI Markets
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What is your Monday plan? Buy what? Sell what?
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New Space Shows Expected Consolidation Pattern Among Companies
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We are seeing what you expect to see in a new and exciting space: A large number of companies are being started in this space and over time, we will see a lot of consolidation and a handful of key players emerge. /17
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Future AI Services Market: Limited Competition with Subscription Models
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It is extremely unlikely that we will have more than 2-3 of these services. These services, like ChatGPT, will have a free and paid subscription tier. Paying subscribers will enjoy premium features like personalized responses and access to multi-modal features etc. /10
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Google, Meta, and OpenAI dominate consumer LLM market
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All this means that we will end up with Google, Meta, and potentially OpenAI being the key players in the consumer LLM (e.g., ChatGPT, Bard, etc.) world. /9
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Prediction Markets for Waymo Human Intervention Monitoring
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I decided that I don't want to monitor this issue hard enough to adjudicate a prediction market myself; but making the prediction market for whether Waymo is relying on amounts of human intervention near that of Cruise, would be one way to promote rumors to public best-guesses.