Hong Kong aims to develop its own ChatGPT-like platform

Hong Kong aims to develop its own artificial intelligence-based chatbot platform, similar to the popular ChatGPT, to catch up in the global race for innovation, the city’s technology chief has said.

Report informs via South China Morning Post that Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry Sun Dong on Saturday also said authorities would carry out a public consultation this year on plans to set up an artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputing centre to attract top talent and technology enterprises to Hong Kong.

“I have tried out ChatGPT myself and found it really good. This has marked a new stage for the future development of AI,” he told a radio programme. “This has inspired us. We need to reallocate our resources into the study of AI in order to catch up with global technology development.”

Sun said the government would kick off a public consultation to gather views on the set-up of the centre, and promised to dedicate sufficient resources to the project.

He outlined his AI vision after revealing plans earlier to set up a special task force to recommend the best way to navigate “revolutionary” disruption caused by the controversial chatbot ChatGPT, including the option of using legislation to regulate the technology.

ChatGPT was unveiled in November last year by Microsoft-backed OpenAI. The service, which generates humanlike text, attracted 100 million users only two months after its launch, which made it the fastest-growing consumer application in history.