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24 published records
01 / uncertainty
“I'm not sure that the Singapore government is aware that safety sometimes is a bad word in some AI circles because their work is associated with censorship.”
02 / belief
“I think in today's context, we're quite happy with the fact that there are enough colleagues within government that are competent, that know, in fact, how to generate their own AI and create a system for their colleagues.”
03 / belief
“We were concerned about access by the research community. So we did set aside, I think, a reasonable budget in Singapore to make available compute capacity for these two groups in particular.”
04 / belief
“I think many Singaporeans are, and that's kind of my pitch on the AI engineer side.”
05 / belief
“Should also think about who are the partners that you bring into the picture and not try to do everything alone. And I think very importantly, a best-in-class developer seeks to be a leader in thought and action.”
06 / belief
“I think NTU is going to be one of the first universities to have these cyber ranges for like a AI red teaming training.”
07 / belief
“The 30-year war, in my mind, is the kind of scale of operation that we did that leads me to speak English today.”
08 / belief
“The Economic Development Board has got colleagues who are based in, I believe, more than 40 And they serve as a very useful initial touch point.”
09 / uncertainty
“I don't know how we get them over the hump of going into industry and being successful engineers and I fear that we're going to create a whole bunch of certificates that don't mean anything.”
10 / uncertainty
“I think there's a key term of sovereign AI as well that's kind of going around. I don't know what level this is at.”
11 / belief
“There was a strand on digital infrastructure, and then I believe there was also a strand in terms of digital governance.”
12 / belief
“The fortunate thing for Singapore, I think, is that we're a single tier of government.”
13 / belief
“I think one of your agencies had a part to do with that, and I'm bringing my own conference as well to host alongside.”
14 / commitment
“If you have a model that is being used to generate election-related content, you want to see where it runs, whether or not it's running in a safe environment. And obviously, there's more on the geopolitical side that we will not touch on.”
15 / preference
“It's not even about the pivoting. They might just train from the start, but the point is that they can take a foundation model that is capable of anything and actually fashion it into a useful product at the end of it.”
16 / prediction
“Because for all of the employees of these organisations, then to see that their employers are implementing AI models, and they are identifying AI use cases, is tremendously motivating for the broader workforce to themselves want to acquire AI-related skills.”
17 / evaluation
“I will say I've been dealing with EDB a little bit from my conference, and they've been extremely responsive and it's been nice to see, because I never get to see this out of government, nice to see that as someone that wants to bring a foreign business into Singapore, they're kind of rolling on the welcome mat.”
18 / recommendation
“If you are the Ministry of Transport, you'd be very interested how artificial intelligence, machine learning can be applied to the rail system to help it to advance from corrective maintenance where you go in and maintain equipment after they've broken down to preventive maintenance, which is still costly because you can't go around maintaining everything preventatively.”
19 / preference
“I don't have a point apart from which to say, I hope that people who are looking to enter Singapore, don't have that preconception that we are hard to deal with because we're very eager, I think, is my perception.”
20 / evaluation
“To the extent that you are able to identify the systems that are suitable to go to the cloud, then the need to have the workloads run on your on-prem systems is more circumscribed as a result. And potentially, you can devote better resources to safeguarding this smaller bucket rather than to try and spread your resources to protecting the whole, because you are also relying on security architecture of cloud service providers.”
21 / evaluation
“Companies like Grab, what they are trying to do is to make awareness so broad within their organization and to get to a level of comfort with using Gen AI tools, which I think is a smart move because the returns will come later, but they will surely come.”
22 / preference
“We could have gone for digital technologies, we could have gone for digital advancement, we could have gone for digital innovation. But ultimately we decided on digital development because it wasn't the technologies, the advancements or the innovation that we cared about, they are important, but we're really more interested in their impact to society, impact to communities.”
23 / evaluation
“I take your point that until you are very clear about the outcomes you want to achieve, putting in place regulations could be counterproductive.”
24 / preference
“I don't know what the right answer is, but I will say that my perception is a lot of the Bay Area, San Francisco is on the, let everything be unregulated as possible.”