{"id":13618,"date":"2024-07-08T16:52:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T08:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nuwarobotics.com\/?p=13618"},"modified":"2024-07-08T16:52:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T08:52:45","slug":"applications-of-taiwans-new-ai-dialogue-engine-highlighted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nuwarobotics.com\/en\/2024\/07\/08\/applications-of-taiwans-new-ai-dialogue-engine-highlighted\/","title":{"rendered":"Applications of Taiwan&#8217;s new AI dialogue engine highlighted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taipei, May 3 (CNA) A presentation Friday on Taiwan&#8217;s self-built language model TAIDE, released commercially on April 15, showed the many fields it can be applied to, from language learning and agricultural knowledge searches to banking customer service.<\/p>\n<p>The project to develop TAIDE, which stands for Trustworthy AI Dialogue Engine, was initiated by the Cabinet-level National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) in April 2023 to create a foundational model for a traditional Chinese generative AI dialogue engine specifically for Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>The NSTC has collaborated with several institutions on the project over the past year, and a number of them appeared at Friday&#8217;s presentation in Taipei to promote the system and demonstrate some of its applications.<\/p>\n<p>A team from the University of Tainan, led by computer science and information engineering professor Lee Chang-shing (\u674e\u5efa\u8208), developed, for example, a Taiwanese Hokkien-English AI chatbot for elementary and junior high school students based on TAIDE to learn the languages.<\/p>\n<p>National Chung Hsing University, meanwhile, created an agricultural knowledge search engine called &#8220;Divine Farmer TAIDE&#8221; that can answer professional agricultural questions with citations, according to Fan Yao-chung (\u8303\u8000\u4e2d), an associate professor of computer science and engineering at the university.<\/p>\n<p>He said the answers generated through &#8220;Divine Farmer TAIDE&#8221; are more &#8220;context-based and detailed&#8221; than an engine the team previously developed based on ChatGPT because the new model includes reports from Taiwan&#8217;s Ministry of Agriculture in its database.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13619 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nuwarobotics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1108x1477_089966064861-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nuwarobotics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1108x1477_089966064861-200x267.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.nuwarobotics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1108x1477_089966064861-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.nuwarobotics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1108x1477_089966064861-400x533.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.nuwarobotics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1108x1477_089966064861-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.nuwarobotics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1108x1477_089966064861-768x1023.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nuwarobotics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1108x1477_089966064861.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>An elementary student interacts with the TAIDE-based Taiwanese Hokkien-English chatbot developed by the University of Tainan&#8217;s research team at the TAIDE application presentation event in Taipei on Friday. 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