Remarks by SITI at media session
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Reporter: On the $200 million donation, could you elaborate on what specifically they will be used on? We heard about how it will be used for a continuous development of HKGAI or you said it would be used for "港話通" for example. Is that a translation thing? What would that be used for if it's a mobile application? How is that different to a search engine if it is used on medical context? That sort of questions on specific uses. The second question is on previously you said there will be guidelines on applications and development of AI. Do you have a more concrete timeline? Thank you.
Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry: Thank you for this question. I think this donation will mainly support InnoHK Centre to establish a market-driven platform to provide service to Hong Kong citizens. This money will be mainly used for establishing a platform such as manpower, as well as computing power support, because when you try to run a service system to the general public, you must have enough resources to support its platform, including human power and computing power as well. I think this is the main purpose of this donation. I believe, I also hope, that the new mobile version of the large language model of HKGAI will serve Hong Kong people as soon as possible, hopefully in the next several months. The service can go into the market. Thank you.
(Please also refer to the Chinese portion of the remarks.)
Ends/Monday, March 10, 2025
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