The Artificial Intelligence for Decision Making Initiative is now accepting applications.
The Artificial Intelligence for Decision Making Initiative (the Initiative) is a collaborative project between the Office of National Intelligence (ONI) and the Defence Science and Technology (DST) Group, to develop Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) expertise and capability in areas of significant importance to the Australian defence and national security community.
Individuals are invited to apply their skill and expertise to solve one of 23 AI and ML research and development-related challenges.
Successful applicants will be provided with three-month funding of up to $20,000 per project and could also have the opportunity to be part of a national network focused on developing AI and ML technology. There is also the opportunity for project prototypes to be considered for progression through the Defence Artificial Intelligence Centre (DAIC), or defence and university sectors.
The Initiative is being delivered on a national basis through the Defence Science Centre, Defence Science Institute, Defence Innovation Network and Defence Innovation Partnership.
The challenge topics are:
- Facial Recognition Bias Profiling
- Facial Verification Explainability Measures
- Deceitful/Persuasive Writing Detection
- Distribution-Aware Generalisation for Imbalanced Learning
- Human Factors in Explainable AI
- Input Feature Obfuscation
- Low-bias Age Prediction
- Ensembling Single-Class Classifiers
- Scoping the shopping Race
- Understanding the Limits and Biases of AI using Connect-4
- Regret based strategies in a search market
- Newcombe’s Dilemma
- Holiday planning by AI
- Document Corpus Analysis
- Dynamic decision-making AI for penetration testing
- Graph-based analysis of network traffic for Cyber applications
- Machine learned models from simulation data
- Using Machine Learning for Game and Player Analytics
- Uncertainty and Deception in Multi-agent OpenAI Gym Environments
- Automated glossary generation for effective and efficient information extraction from text data
- Classification of subtle activities
- RTS Game Disruptor
- Deep Reasoning Reinforcement Learning for Cognitive Information Warfare
Funded projects will demonstrate prototype solutions, in the form of a software tool or related product that demonstrates the solution(s) to the chosen challenge.
Applicants must also provide project reports that detail the approach to the challenge and an overview of the solution, to enable assessment of project performance.
The maximum funding amount is $20,000 per project. The length of the projects must be three months.
The intent of the Initiative is to fund individuals to undertake separate projects, however, small team-based proposals may be considered, subject to available funding. Funding for a team-based proposal is restricted to the same arrangements for an individual.
Individuals may submit applications to as many challenges as they wish, however only one project will be funded per applicant, and each project must be discrete and stand-alone from others.
A licence to use the intellectual property developed as part of the project must be provided to the grant sponsor via IP Licence Deed. This licence will be for Commonwealth Use purposes only.
More information is available here.