Do you ever plan on collaborating with researchers in academia, like DeepMind and Google Brain often do? What would make you accept or seek such external collaboration?
We would love to collaborate with anyone (from academia or elsewhere) wherever it makes sense to do so, but we honestly just do not care very much about formal academic publication or citation metrics or whatever. If we see opportunities to collaborate with academia that we think will lead to interesting alignment work getting done, excellent!
Do you ever plan on collaborating with researchers in academia, like DeepMind and Google Brain often do? What would make you accept or seek such external collaboration?
We would love to collaborate with anyone (from academia or elsewhere) wherever it makes sense to do so, but we honestly just do not care very much about formal academic publication or citation metrics or whatever. If we see opportunities to collaborate with academia that we think will lead to interesting alignment work getting done, excellent!
Before someone points this out: Non-disclosure-by-default is a negative incentive for the academic side, if they care about publication metrics.
It is not a negative incentive for Conjecture in such an arrangement, at least not in an obvious way.