Grant to "support a NeurIPS competition applying human feedback in a non-language-model setting, specifically pretrained models in Minecraft."

$155K

Funder

FTX Future Fund

Recipient

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Program

IOMa-dP7g0

Date

May 2022

Source

web.archive.org↗

Notes

[AI safety; regrant] Grant to "support a NeurIPS competition applying human feedback in a non-language-model setting, specifically pretrained models in Minecraft."

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