Hong Kong is not prepared for artificial intelligence

[bdw]

@bdw it is more fun to use Gemini or chatgpt to create a prompt for mid journey.. they should be teaching prompt engineering.

I'll have to ask her a few more details what she was doing. I'm a bit behind on all this AI stuff. She just came home from school the other day moaning "I hate school, I have to do this stupid project using AI to create an animation using deepmotion blah blah blah" and I was like "You are using AI I thought it was banned? Back when I was your age we just got calculators!"

[nivek2046]

Canada's AI Strategy

https://datagovhub.elliott.gwu.edu/canada-ai-strategy/

[nivek2046]

Oxford's Government AI Readiness Index 2023

https://oxfordinsights.com/ai-readin...adiness-index/

Here's the list on far east; Hong Kong is not on it.

[shri]

@nivek2046 - might be better to post your own strategy

[nivek2046]

My initial thinking for HK plan is this.

HKSAR government will hire a Chief AI Scientist. He should work in the Science Park or San Tin Technopole, when ready. .

All AI companies will move to Science Park or San Tin Technopole, when ready, with cheap cheap rent.

(A) The HKSAR government set up a new agency which helps all government department's integration with AI.

(B) The HKSAR government set up a new company (government owned) which helps SME companies' integration with AI.

(C) The HKSAR government set up a new company (government owned) which helps large enterprises' integration with AI.

(D) HKSAR government set up a new company (government owned) which perform match making between our AI companies and Pearl River Delta (or even Greater China) tech companies.

The agency and the government owned companies can outsource their work to other AI companies in Science Park or San TIn Technopole.

When company (A) is done with their businesses in Hong Kong, they can go out to other places to help others. Same as (B), (c), and (D).

These four new agency/companies will report to the Chief AI Scientist, whom in turn will report to Prof Sun Jun.

Laissez faire doesn't work for the Asian Four Tigers, at least not for the tech sector. Taiwan, South Korean, Singapore and Japan all have abandoned it (even if they ever had adopted it in the first place, which is doubtful)

[hullexile]

Australia is rolling out AI in schools just like the calculator and internet were rolled out before. My 15yo daughter came home with an assignment the other day which was to use AI to create an animation. She was using 3 different AI tools, one for text to image, another for image to video, and then I think it was deepmotion to convert video to animation.

I was watching my daughter do some quick school work. Wrote a draft, got ChatGPT to expand on it, read and used ChatGPT again to simplify the English then edited it to her liking. To me that is a tool for writing rather than cheating and good development for the future.

[nivek2046]

I forgot to say something about education.

(E) There should be a government agency/company which help schools learning/using AI. I assume all the kids in Hong Kong know how to access ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and/or Gemini. (F) They will learn not only English writing and research, but on Microsoft Excel and VBA programming

Just curiously. do HKDSE teach linear algebra?

[shri]

I personally think the govt should stay the fuck out of AI as a "developer" or "funding source". Fix the real estate problem and try to organise some concerts and sculptures - I think that is more within the scope of HK's current bureaucracy.

Go back to the HK where you started by selling plastic flowers, did dodgy deals, leveraged the f' out of the financial systems and became a super human. I am not kidding - plenty of external silly money out there chasing these unicorns.

No need for a chief AI scientist, unless its an image recognition and GEN AI expert who can figure out how to get the faxes scanned and reply automatically by FAX.

And how can you assume how "all kids" know how to access ChatGPT etc .. don't think any of these are available without a VPN and having VPNs at a router level in schools is lets just say, a bit problematic. May be they use Ernie.

Finally...

These four new agency/companies will report to the Chief AI Scientist, whom in turn will report to Prof Sun Jun.

This guy who seems to be Singaporean.

https://sunjun.site/sun-jun/

[hullexile]

Oxford's Government AI Readiness Index 2023

https://oxfordinsights.com/ai-readin...adiness-index/

Here's the list on far east; Hong Kong is not on it.

Does HK get a separate ranking given it is not a, country?

[nivek2046]

I personally think the govt should stay the fuck out of AI as a "developer" or "funding source". Fix the real estate problem and try to organise some concerts and sculptures - I think that is more within the scope of HK's current bureaucracy.

Go back to the HK where you started by selling plastic flowers, did dodgy deals, leveraged the f' out of the financial systems and became a super human. I am not kidding - plenty of external silly money out there chasing these unicorns.

No need for a chief AI scientist, unless its an image recognition and GEN AI expert who can figure out how to get the faxes scanned and reply automatically by FAX.

And how can you assume how "all kids" know how to access ChatGPT etc .. don't think any of these are available without a VPN and having VPNs at a router level in schools is lets just say, a bit problematic. May be they use Ernie.

Finally...



This guy who seems to be Singaporean.

https://sunjun.site/sun-jun/

Sorry, I meant Prof Dong Sun, not the Singaporean guy.

As for the old plastics flower way, that's history; the real superman has retired. Forget about the developers, HSBC, Jardine, blah, blah. The gweiloos are gone. This is the Age of the Artificial Intelligence, being phase 3 of the Information Age.

I've seen lots of kids who have access to ChatGPT!! They are everywhere!

If you can't access the American ones, try the ones from China!

Have you played with TikTok today? it's fun!