Open-source adoption is NZ’s pathway to sovereign AI

Open-source adoption is NZ’s pathway to sovereign AI
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Peter Griffin
Numerous artificial intelligence researchers and industry experts have taken a swing at the Government’s new AI strategy for being all bark and no bite.They are right. The strategy really was, as Massey University’s Collin Bjork so succinctly put it, a “nothing burger”. It could have been New Zealand’s roadmap to navigating the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution.The strategy quotes Microsoft research, which claims that “generative AI alone could add $76 billion to the New Zealand economy by 2038, or over...

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