A handbook has been launched to assist Singapore companies navigate their adoption of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and purchase the mandatory skillsets to assist such initiatives.
Dubbed Generative AI for the Tech Workforce, the useful resource information goals to help native organizations, together with small and midsize companies (SMBs), seeking to combine the expertise into their surroundings, stated SGTech. The information additionally will help these firms in buying the skillsets and retraining to facilitate the transition, stated the native expertise commerce affiliation, which has greater than 1,000 company members, together with MNCs, SMBs, and startups.
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The useful resource information was developed alongside SkillsFuture Singapore and AI Singapore, that are authorities businesses tasked with creating the nation’s abilities growth packages and AI capabilities, respectively.
SGTech is a abilities growth accomplice underneath Singapore’s National AI Strategy 2.0, the place it’s “accountable for articulating job roles and abilities necessities” throughout each expertise and non-technology sectors to assist GenAI.
Put collectively based mostly on inputs from 30 firms, the useful resource information highlights three enterprise use cases for GenAI in addition to the GenAI worker profiles and skillsets wanted, together with GenAI builders and answer suppliers.
One case examine, for instance, appears at how a worldwide group within the uncooked supplies business developed a system to ingest and classify paperwork throughout completely different departments in a bid to enhance productiveness. “The power to include info from all customers meant all people within the firm was concerned in coaching the mannequin, not simply the tech crew. This accelerated the speed at which the massive language mannequin may study, therefore, delivering larger advantages to the corporate,” the SGTech information famous.
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It added that making use of GenAI right here enabled the corporate to extra shortly extract information and higher deal with different actions, equivalent to producing and performing on the info insights.
The useful resource information additionally outlines three ranges of GenAI tech expertise profiles and the technical experience required for every. As an example, GenAI answer suppliers are tasked with tapping the related giant language fashions to suit particular use circumstances, whereas “energy customers” leverage GenAI for specialised duties that require a larger understanding of immediate design and domain-specific information.
Benjamin Mah, SGTech’s co-chair of expertise steering committee, stated: “The way forward for work depends on the pliability of people and organizations to undertake technological developments. This publication serves as a information, directing professionals and enterprises towards a future the place abilities growth seamlessly aligns with technological innovation.”
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Singapore final week launched a draft governance framework on GenAI to handle rising points, together with incident reporting and content material provenance. The draft doc encompasses proposals from a discussion paper revealed final June, which recognized six dangers related to GenAI, together with hallucinations, copyright challenges, and embedded biases, and a framework on how these may be addressed.
The proposed GenAI governance framework additionally attracts insights from earlier initiatives, together with a catalog on how to assess the safety of GenAI models and testing performed by way of an evaluation sandbox.