It is reported that, at a joint hearing on proposals to craft an AI basic law held by the Legislative Yuan’s Education and Culture Committee and Transportation Committee, Deputy Minister of Digital Affairs Yeh Ning (葉寧) said that (1) the Ministry is not prepared to unveil its proposal at the moment, as the Executive Yuan is still in the process of assessing its requisite funding levels; (2) overcoming capability gaps in Taiwan’s AI industry with regard to large language models and creating a legal framework governing fair use of data by developers are the Ministry’s main concerns regarding the bill; (3) officials are creating a database for traditional Chinese character-based content and a national-level corpus, but it is expected to be time-consuming; and (4) the Ministry is cultivating a workforce in collaboration with the National Council of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Education. The legislative hearing also heard suggestions from academics and industry insiders who have collectively called for Taiwanese lawmakers to support the development of large-language models with traditional Chinese characters, promote public-private collaborations, and establish legal frameworks for data use and privacy.
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