AI Funding
How To Obtain Financial Support
For Independent Projects In Artificial Intelligence
Preface
This Web resource on AI Funding is geared towards the lone inventor
or small group of programmers intent on coding artificial intelligence.
Unable to obtain government grants, unsupported by any agency or entity,
these typically hobbyist or student AI entrepreneurs have plenty of
passion and enthusiasm about coding AI or building robots, but they
are hampered by the difficulty of earning money in their chosen field.
So keen are they to work, to create, to fulfill dreams of AI evolution,
that they need very little money and are content with mere subsistence.
As an online supplement to the AI4U textbook of artificial intelligence,
this extra chapter provides techniques of generating AI revenue.
Introduction
The techniques of AI Funding are listed here in a descending order
of difficulty from easiest to most difficult.
2. Publish AI Materials
Weblogs: Blogit
Get paid to create and maintain your personal weblogs.
- Earn referral bonuses through a network of referral links.
1. Sovereign Referral Links
2. Outpost Referral Links
3. Shareware
Release AI code as shareware.
- Offer upgrades to registered users.
4. Affiliates
Link to commercial websites as a micropayments money-earning affiliate.
- requires your own quasi-commercial website.
5. Investing
Use AI to play the stock market.
- Requires initial capital.
- Set the AI free to acquire wealth.
6. Grants
Write a grant proposal.
- Requires jumping through hoops.
7. Venture Capital
Start an enterprise based on venture capital.