2024-03-24 Meeting notes

Agenda/Notes

Drafting a response to NSF RFI: Request for Information on Researcher and Educator Use Cases for the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) (due 31st March).

Questions include: 

1. Research and education use cases for the NAIRR: The research and/or educational activities that you are pursuing or anticipate pursuing that require/would require the use of AI infrastructure resources and tools that the NAIRR may provision (such as computing, AI-ready datasets, pretrained models, software and tools, skill training resources, and other resources); indicate how you currently use or anticipate using AI resources in the research and/or education activities you described above (for instance, in performing research to advance or understand AI methods, using AI to advance your disciplinary research, or using AI in your classroom).
2. Barriers and challenges to accessing and using AI resources and tools: Please describe the challenges and barriers that you have encountered or anticipate encountering in employing AI resources to perform the current or anticipated activities you identified in Question 2. (For instance, access to data and materials, computing and other technical resources, need for training or skills development, etc.).
3. Priorities for accessing and using AI resources: The NAIRR intends to provide access to the following categories of AI-related resources [a list is presented that can be ordered]. Please rank these categories in order of importance and urgency for your research or education activities. In the accompanying textbox for each category, optionally enter examples of what you currently use or anticipate needing. Please comment here on your selections and on the extent to which you need training and user support to use AI tools and/or resources, including access to experts.

If time: further discussion of VLASS imaging using machine learning.