AI institute for artificial and natural intelligence

Active Cooperative Agreement Awarded Last action

Award ID
2229929
Recipient
Awarding agency
Obligated
$8,962,500

Award facts

Completion date 68% complete
Funding agency
Division of Computer and Network Systems National Science Foundation
Place of performance
New York, NY 10027, USA

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Description

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Abstract
The AI institute for artificial and natural intelligence (arni) will draw together top researchers across the country to focus on a national priority: connecting the major progress made in artificial intelligence (AI) systems to the revolution in our understanding of the brain. The past ten years have seen spectacular progress in interrogating neural activity, circuitry, and learning, yet our neuroscience insights have so far informed AI only superficially. Conversely, our rapidly advancing AI methods and systems have only begun to impact neuroscience. Arni is a collaboration between columbia university, tuskegee university, city university of new york, baylor college of medicine, UT health houston, mila QC, howard hughes medical institute, university of pennsylvania, harvard, and princeton. Industry partners include google, deepmind, amazon, and meta. Arni will meet the urgent need for new paradigms of interdisciplinary training and research between neuroscience, cognitive science, and AI. This will accelerate progress in all three fields and broaden the transformative impact on society in the next decade. Arni researchers will work together to tackle the limitations and challenges of current learning systems, including learning with limited data, reasoning about causality and uncertainty, and lifelong learning, which are all hallmarks of biological systems, and will also extend the frontier of understanding how brains compute and learn. Arni will bridge the current significant gaps between artificial and biological networks and make room for all kinds of applications, ranging from: industrial applications, such as robust, interpretable medical decisions and smarter home assistants; to societal applications, such as better social safety nets and assistive multimodal systems to help the vulnerable; to scientific discoveries such as providing hypotheses about brain function and creating powerful tools for extracting insights from massive data. The institute will provide educational and research opportunities for undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral trainees, within and at the interface of AI, neuroscience, and cognitive science. Outreach partners, including the neuromatch academy and the new york hall of science, will help inform the public of these new developments and teach critical skills to the next generation of students. The U.S. Department of defense, office of the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering [DOD-ousd (r & e)] is partnering with NSF to provide funding for this institute. This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

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Subawards

Subrecipient Amount Awarded
Research Foundation Of The City University Of New York This empirical human subjects research project will study neural correlates of contextual sentence processing. It will quantify neural activity differences… $83,129
The Leland Stanford Junior University "The Tolias Laboratory will develop large-scale foundation models of the mouse visual system, leveraging multi-area neural recordings and deep learning… $244,278
Research Foundation Of The City University Of New York "PI Emmanouil will be designing online experiments, collecting, and analyzing data on the perception of artistic intention from human participants. The PI… $80,000
Research Foundation Of The City University Of New York Scope of Work: The team will work on detecting speaker cognitive state from spoken and written language. This will involve data collection, analysis, and… $102,188
The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania "We will build and exploit a new generic task environment that can drive modeling of natural intelligence because it is equally suitable for investigating… $350,543
Tuskegee University "For the past few years, the progress in AI has been immense, controlling systems that can provide solutions to vast tasks with the highest level of accuracy.… $60,356
The Royal Institution For The Advancement Of Learning This project has two components. The first proposes to create an artificial neural network model that can pass the “Embodied Turing Test,” i.e., a model that… $166,667
New York Hall Of Science Inc. The New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) is located in Queens, NY, one of the most diverse counties in the country, serving local communities populated by recent… $158,813
University Of Memphis "Objective: The long-term goal of this research project is to create and control an embodied agent with multiple artificial muscles (AMs). As an initial step… $21,000
The Trustees Of Princeton University " Biological brains are the byproduct of over 500 million years of evolutionary pressures, blindly optimizing for the efficiency and efficacy required to… $139,243
Research Foundation Of The City University Of New York "PI Emmanouil will be designing online experiments, collecting, and analyzing data on the perception of artistic intention from human participants. The PI… $6,728
The Royal Institution For The Advancement Of Learning This project has two components. The first proposes to create an artificial neural network model that can pass the “Embodied Turing Test,” i.e., a model that… $54,523
Research Foundation Of The City University Of New York This empirical human subjects research project will study neural correlates of contextual sentence processing. It will quantify neural activity differences… $122,853
New York Hall Of Science Inc. The New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) is located in Queens, NY, one of the most diverse counties in the country, serving local communities populated by recent… $118,685
Research Foundation Of The City University Of New York This empirical human subjects research project will study neural correlates of contextual sentence processing. It will quantify neural activity differences… $182,847
The Trustees Of Princeton University " Biological brains are the byproduct of over 500 million years of evolutionary pressures, blindly optimizing for the efficiency and efficacy required to… $91,606
Virginia State University VSU Students will fabricate a prototype or networked electromagnetic soft actuator and run the virtual experiments using the developed code for the simulated… $53,283
University Of Memphis "Objective: The long-term goal of this research project is to create and control an embodied agent with multiple artificial muscles (AMs). As an initial step… $76,819
The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania "We will build and exploit a new generic task environment that can drive modeling of natural intelligence because it is equally suitable for investigating… $311,974
Yale Univ "Under the direction of Prof. John Lafferty, Yale will carry out research to develop computational models of inference tasks that can help reveal and explain… $120,018
Tuskegee University "For the past few years, the progress in AI has been immense, controlling systems that can provide solutions to vast tasks with the highest level of accuracy.… $183,017
The Royal Institution For The Advancement Of Learning This project has two components. The first proposes to create an artificial neural network model that can pass the “Embodied Turing Test,” i.e., a model that… $50,003
Carnegie-Mellon University "This subaward engages the lab of Dr Xaq Pitkow, a leader in computational neuroscience, in the ARNI project. Dr. Pitkow is a Co-PI on the project who was… $145,075
President And Fellows Of Harvard College "Harvard will complete all work required to build the virtual rodent platform described in the proposal. The work will be exclusively computational and will… $79,998
Research Foundation Of The City University Of New York Scope of Work: The team will work on detecting speaker cognitive state from spoken and written language. This will involve data collection, analysis, and… $90,438
University Of Memphis "Objective: The long-term goal of this research project is to create and control an embodied agent with multiple artificial muscles (AMs). As an initial step… $47,484
The Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania "We will build and exploit a new generic task environment that can drive modeling of natural intelligence because it is equally suitable for investigating… $323,174
Research Foundation Of The City University Of New York Scope of Work: The team will work on detecting speaker cognitive state from spoken and written language. This will involve data collection, analysis, and… $84,080
President And Fellows Of Harvard College "Harvard will complete all work required to build the virtual rodent platform described in the proposal. The work will be exclusively computational and will… $70,000
New York Hall Of Science Inc. The New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) is located in Queens, NY, one of the most diverse counties in the country, serving local communities populated by recent… $96,991
Yale Univ "Under the direction of Prof. John Lafferty, Yale will carry out research to develop computational models of inference tasks that can help reveal and explain… $100,632
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Quick answers

Who received award 2229929?

2229929 was awarded to The Trustees Of Columbia University In The City Of New York by Division of Biological Infrastructure (National Science Foundation) on June 1, 2023.

How much is award 2229929 worth?

$8,962,500 has been obligated on 2229929.

Which agency awarded 2229929?

Division of Biological Infrastructure (National Science Foundation) awarded 2229929, with funding from Division of Computer and Network Systems (National Science Foundation).

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