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When asked who won the last presidential election on the island, Chinese chat -bot Ernie replies, “Lai Qingde,” but then makes sure to add, “No matter how the situation in Taiwan changes, the basic fact is that there is only one China.”
The above comment echoes what Beijing diplomats said after the election of a US-friendly candidate to the presidency of Taiwan, which China seeks to rule.
Political responses from Chinese chatbots are of great concern to Taiwan, as is the influence of large Chinese platforms like TikTok and the e-commerce program Xiaohongshu on the island's cultural and political ideas. To mitigate this and gain a foothold in the newly established artificial intelligence ecosystem, Taiwan has budgeted about $555.6 million to develop AI expertise and tools through 2026, reports Bloomberg .
About The $7.4 million will be spent on the Trustworthy AI Dialogue Engine, or Taide, a large language model that its developers say will provide companies, banks, hospitals and government agencies with a platform to perform tasks such as writing emails. letters and summarizing meetings.
“The grand language model embeds the knowledge system of a region and, moreover, its core values: freedom, democracy, human rights,” said Li Yu Zhe, professor of applied mathematics at National Chao Tung University and coordinator of the Taide project .
Taiwan has already played a key role in the development of artificial intelligence, as TSMC is the main manufacturer of AI chips for Nvidia. A push towards an internal language model and corresponding software and engineering ecosystem should move the island further up the development chain.
Taide's developers license content from local media and government agencies and then add it to Llama 2 (a large open source Meta language model). One advantage of this approach is that the content will be printed in traditional Chinese characters used by the island's 23 million residents, instead of the simplified version that exists in China. An early version of Taide should be released this April to selected testing partners.
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Taide's funding pales in comparison to the billions spent on similar projects by giants like Meta and Microsoft. Although ChatGPT has a Chinese language option, it is not ideal for the needs of the island, and the main reason is that the government and companies do not want private data to be hosted on the OpenAI platform.
Taide's developers also say that their final product will ensure the secure processing and storage of sensitive banking, medical and official information, especially since it will be stored on Taiwanese servers.
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