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Playing Heaven
以人工智慧重繪近世新儒學世界
在近世東亞，新儒學及相關思想傳統歷經數百年而成形：學者詮釋經典、論辯道德與政治問題，並從事文學與審美實踐。其歷史遠遠超出人們熟悉的經典人物，也超出後世回顧性敘述所確立的分類。Playing Heaven 研究數千位較不知名人物的著述、學術社群與文化活動，如何促成更大的思想、社會與文化運動。
我們團隊的長期目標，是考察中國內部思想傳統的多樣性，及其在朝鮮、德川日本、琉球王國與越南的接受與再詮釋，並及於耶穌會士與歐洲學術參與其中的更廣泛交流。目前的個案研究從中國與韓國的思想聯繫、以及清帝國的滿文材料出發。為探究這些複雜的歷史問題，我們也在開發結合 Transformer 模型、代理式 AI、確定性演算法與精心建構之知識庫的計算方法。
Schmidt Sciences 人文與 AI 虛擬研究院（HAVI）計畫香港大學、香港科技大學與新加坡國立大學合作，2026–2029
Pivot 機
The name Pivot invokes the concept of ji/ki 機, which in traditional East Asian cosmology refers to the generative workings of Heaven, the ultimate source of creativity governing the birth, growth, and perishing of the myriad beings. The term carries several layers of meaning and connotation, including mechanism, incipience, and the metaphor of a brocade loom.
Inspired by this conception of creative agency, Pivot uses specialized AI agents to assist historians in analysing historical writings, constructing successive interpretations of passages and essays, and comparing intellectual positions. Agentic AI approximates aspects of this generative capacity, enabling researchers to develop and pursue interpretations spanning large bodies of historical evidence. Each interpretation remains linked to its original sources to help scholars inspect, question, and revise the results and establish confidence in the plausibility and validity of their findings.
Traces 跡
The name Traces refers to the fragmentary evidence from which historians reconstruct intellectual and cultural formations and reconsider inherited classifications of schools of thought, intellectual lineages, and cultural movements that reflect the interpretive judgements of earlier taxonomists.
Traces uses an agentic AI pipeline to help historians reassess these formations against the writings and documented relationships of thousands of scholars, bringing together fragmentary evidence from different sources and scholarly traditions within a shared research environment.