A different event, AI Safety Camp, is also happening in Prague, in October.
While there is a substantial overlap between both organizers and participants, the events have somewhat different goals, are geared toward slightly different target audiences. The summer school is pretty much in the format of an “academic summer school”, where you have talks, coffee breaks, social events, and similar structured program, but usually not something like substantial amount of time to do your own independent research. The camp is the complement—lot of time to do independent research, not much structured program, no talks by senior researchers, no coffee breaks and also no university backing.
Maybe, at some point we may try some mixture, but now there are large differences. It is important to understand them and have different expectations from each event.
Written as “Human-Aligned Summer School”, I first read it as an educational experiment aimed at not making kids suffer. For some reason I find the misinterpretation hilarious.
Thanks for summary of some of the talks!
Just to avoid some unnecessary confusion, I’d like to point out the name of the event was Human-aligned AI Summer School.
A different event, AI Safety Camp, is also happening in Prague, in October.
While there is a substantial overlap between both organizers and participants, the events have somewhat different goals, are geared toward slightly different target audiences. The summer school is pretty much in the format of an “academic summer school”, where you have talks, coffee breaks, social events, and similar structured program, but usually not something like substantial amount of time to do your own independent research. The camp is the complement—lot of time to do independent research, not much structured program, no talks by senior researchers, no coffee breaks and also no university backing.
Maybe, at some point we may try some mixture, but now there are large differences. It is important to understand them and have different expectations from each event.
I agree that the “Camp” in the title was confusing, so I changed it to “Summer School”. Thank you!
Written as “Human-Aligned Summer School”, I first read it as an educational experiment aimed at not making kids suffer. For some reason I find the misinterpretation hilarious.
Added “AI” to prevent death from laughter.