alt Hacker NewsBut it's not like those guys will just pocket that money. They will use it like all academic grant money is used: to hire PhD students and postdocs.
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This is legit akin to "trickle down" which never works because people are selfish.
The joys of trickle-down economy...
> to hire PhD students and postdocs
Why? I thought we already established* that most professional mathematicians are not necessary (in the near future, then maybe "any"), so why would they doom these students with pity grants to basically create unnecessary jobs for them? More practically, wouldn't that money be best served (i.e., raw ROI) by purchasing more tokens on the frontier models?
(*) The existence of this effort itself is a good heuristic.
in the age of AI? are you _....sure_
Ha ha ha
And blog in favor of AI ...
> The foundation will manage and award the funding, including through an open call for proposals, to support workshops and initiatives that help researchers evaluate recent AI-assisted results, learn and use new tools, share perspectives and shape collective standards for AI use.
A non-zero amount of it is probably going directly to the AI companies through tokens...