Can somebody get me in touch with somebody from the Center for AI Safety (safe.ai)? Their page for applying for compute resources seems broken. I have used their contact form to report the issue on April 7th, but received no reply.
This is how the application page looks like at least since then (linked from their Compute Cluster page):
As you can see, there is no form field to enter and only a lone “Absenden” button, which is German and means “submit” (which is strange because my system and browser are set to English). If I click that button, I get this message:
Looks like this form is empty. Try filling it out before submitting.
My guess is that there is a problem with their Airtable integration.
Sorry if I’m missing something stupid, but doesn’t that first sentence there explain the situation? “Please note that we are not accepting applications to use the cluster at this time.” I would presume the Submit button is just vestigial due to not being able to easily hide/remove it at that target URL.
Assuming I’m right, what would be nicer presentation-wise is if the page at https://safe.ai/work/compute-cluster were to change its button to a non-button reading “Applications Currently Closed” or such, and if the explanation included something more explicitly referring to the non-functional UI like “This form thus cannot currently be submitted.”
Hm, yes, seems plausible. Very inconsistent though. And they should remove the second paragraph, which seems to imply that it is still possible to apply anyway.
Can somebody get me in touch with somebody from the Center for AI Safety (safe.ai)? Their page for applying for compute resources seems broken. I have used their contact form to report the issue on April 7th, but received no reply.
This is how the application page looks like at least since then (linked from their Compute Cluster page):
As you can see, there is no form field to enter and only a lone “Absenden” button, which is German and means “submit” (which is strange because my system and browser are set to English). If I click that button, I get this message:
My guess is that there is a problem with their Airtable integration.
If you wonder what I’m trying to apply for:
The project Reducing LLM deception at scale with self-other overlap fine-tuning (SOO) I am working with at AE Studio is in urgent need for more compute to run SOO experiments with Mistral Large 2 (or even larger).
The aintelope project (sorry, not many updates recently) needs compute for running more evaluations of our benchmark From homeostasis to resource sharing: Biologically and economically aligned multi-objective multi-agent AI safety benchmarks and we wanted to apply at CAIS too (having run out of funding, more on that later).
Sorry if I’m missing something stupid, but doesn’t that first sentence there explain the situation? “Please note that we are not accepting applications to use the cluster at this time.” I would presume the Submit button is just vestigial due to not being able to easily hide/remove it at that target URL.
Assuming I’m right, what would be nicer presentation-wise is if the page at https://safe.ai/work/compute-cluster were to change its button to a non-button reading “Applications Currently Closed” or such, and if the explanation included something more explicitly referring to the non-functional UI like “This form thus cannot currently be submitted.”
Hm, yes, seems plausible. Very inconsistent though. And they should remove the second paragraph, which seems to imply that it is still possible to apply anyway.