What XPRIZE Is Palmer Luckey Funding?
Palmer Luckey is funding a new XPRIZE that Peter Diamandis says will be announced in a month. It is another $10 million prize. The details stay secret until then because Palmer Luckey says there are good twists.
Palmer Luckey is not interested in spending his money to push AI forward. He says the model side of artificial intelligence is already well covered, and not enough work has gone into biological intelligence beyond people. The prize is about understanding how animals think and communicating with them 10 times better than today's state of the art for the smartest species. The aim is wild animals in their own language, not only trained animals. Large language models distill how humans think and communicate, and he says the other species on the planet have plenty to teach. He would not be surprised if that work also helps AI become more power efficient and more time efficient.
