Schmidt Sciences: The Humanities and Artificial Intelligence Virtual Institute (HAVI) – (LOI)

Supports research at the intersection of AI and the humanities: (1) catalyze groundbreaking, domain-specific research outcomes from humanities scholars through the integral application of AI-inspired tools and techniques; and (2) produce insights and techniques from the humanities that will advance the development of AI generally.  HAVI encourages collaboration of humanities scholars with AI researchers to produce advances both in AI and in the humanities.  HAVI Priority Areas:

* Specific outcomes seen by the field as major steps forward, solutions to longstanding problems, or innovative approaches that open up entirely new pathways of inquiry.

* Construction of datasets (or new methods of data acquisition / construction) with properties that reduce or eliminate current problems in AI…

* Integration of humanities approaches and agency in AI model training, construction, and usage.

* Exploration of AI-based approaches that the field sees as risky, but with high impact if successful.

As a result, projects must strongly align with one or both of the following priority areas:

** Heterogeneity and Contextual Understanding – projects that identify and operationalize a multiplicity of cultural, material, and perceptual differences – in both AI and the humanities…

** Multimodal and Multilingual Understanding – … Accelerating research in non-textual areas as visual art, photography, film and television, music, advertisements, theater, and dance, will require the invention of new methods in multimodal understanding, as well as improving methods developed for non-humanistic data so that they can be applied to humanities topics…

Funding: One to three years in the following categories:

– Small awards: Under $100,000 per year – small-scale efforts at early, exploratory stages

– Medium awards: $100,001 to $500,000 per year – research and development that has completed initial phases of planning and is ready to initiate projects that will produce specific, novel outcomes

– Large awards: $500,001 to $1.5 million per year – interdisciplinary research efforts designed to produce groundbreaking humanities research, new AI tools, datasets, and models through deep interaction with AI theory, systems, and methods.

www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-and-ai-virtual-institute

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