Authorities and tech companies in Taiwan aim to counter Chinese authorities’ expansion into artificial intelligence (AI) with the help of their own neural networks based on large language models. This job was reported by oppression Bloomberg.
The concern of officials and IT businesses in Taiwan is about how neural networks created in mainland China answer questions about the island. For example, Baidu’s Ernie chatbot can correctly name the winner of the presidential election in Taiwan, but it also reminds us that China remains a single state, even if the AI is not asked about it.
Taiwan has allocated approximately $555.6 million through 2026 to develop AI tools to curb China’s growing technological influence and gain a foothold in the emerging AI ecosystem.
Taiwan is also developing the Trusted AI Dialogue Engine (Taide), a language model whose creators say will give businesses, banks, hospitals and government agencies a platform for tasks such as writing emails or taking notes from meetings.
Taide developers license content from local media and government agencies. According to them, the final product will enable the secure processing and storage of confidential banking, medical and government information, especially since it will be stored on Taiwanese servers. Its creators say the Taiwan model does not need to match the power of leaders like ChatGPT to be effective.
Previously Chinese companies started Collect AI boosters from gaming video cards.