State organs are joining private Chinese firms in developing homegrown AI in the mould of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The Chinese Academy of Sciences’ TaiChu model was among the first batch of services that won approval for public rollout in August. The technology is regarded as harbouring the potential to revolutionise fields from diagnostics to personal consultations.
China is testing an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant for neurosurgeons at seven hospitals in Beijing and other cities in the coming months, one of many initiatives the government is backing to try and harness the technology.
A Hong Kong-based agency under the Chinese Academy of Sciences — the country’s foremost state-backed scientific institute — on Monday introduced an AI model based on Meta Platforms Inc.’s Llama 2.0. Researchers trained and fine-tuned the model with papers, medical journals and manuals to act as a surgery consultant of sorts for doctors, said Liu Hongbin, the centre’s executive director.
