Yes. It is a big problem in Taiwan that if you try to speak to ChatGPT with anything that’s not Mandarin, ChatGPT doesn’t know it, fakes it, and speaks Cantonese, while assuring you, it is speaking Dajing, so it doesn’t work. So, instead we think our own language models should be a national infrastructure. Our science minister is training now, as we speak, the trustworthy AI dialogue engine, which is a language model specifically trained not to be agentic or self-conscious, or frontier, or AGI, or whatever, but for the very simple need of translating between the national languages of Taiwan and summarizing them and so on, like everyday tasks.

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