The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) yesterday released the latest artificial intelligence (AI) language model in traditional Chinese embedded with Taiwanese cultural values.
The council launched the Trustworthy AI Dialogue Engine (TAIDE) program in April last year to develop and train traditional Chinese-language models based on LLaMA, the open-source AI language model released by Meta.
The program aims to tackle the information bias that is often present in international large-scale language models and take Taiwanese culture and values into consideration, it said.
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Llama 3-TAIDE-LX-8B-Chat-Alpha1, released yesterday, is the latest large language model in traditional Chinese. It was trained based on Meta’s Llama-3-8B model and has completed basic testing, the council said.
Following Meta’s release of Llama 3 on April 19, the TAIDE team immediately started developing the new model based on the data it had collected over the past 12 months, it said.
In line with its development strategy of making quick and fast upgrades, the team released the new model after four days of training and basic testing, it said.
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NSTC Minister Wu Tsung-tsong (吳政忠) said it is impressive that the team was able to complete the training in only four days and released a commercial version for use by academia, research institutes and industry.
The team would make adjustments on a rolling basis according to opinions collected from all sectors to continue improving the model, the council said.
Since the council released TAIDE-LX-7B, which was based on Meta’s Llama 2, on April 15, many installation and user guides have been shared on social media platforms, it said.
In addition, more than 10 manufacturers and several academic units, research teams and public agencies have begun to apply the model in system development, it said.
In other developments, Taiwan and France are holding a two-day scientific research conference in Taipei that ends today, the council said, adding that it is based on the science and technology cooperation agreement that the two sides signed in November last year.
Under the agreement, Taipei and Paris are to cooperate in six major fields — semiconductors and quantum technologies, biomedicine, green energy and carbon reduction, artificial intelligence security, space and ocean, it said.
Claire Giry, director-general of research and innovation at the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, and French Representative to Taiwan Franck Paris attended the opening ceremony of the conference yesterday, it said.
France is one of Taiwan’s closest Europeans partners in scientific and technological cooperation, Wu said, adding that the two sides have signed a number of cooperation agreements and established a comprehensive scientific research subsidy mechanism.
The French delegation includes representatives from the French National Centre for Scientific Research, the French National Research Agency and the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, as well as experts in the six fields of cooperation, it said.
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