HKUST In The Media
Provost Prof. GUO Yike, also Director of HKGAI, delivered a keynote speech at the second Innovation and Technology leadership series thematic seminar co-organized by the Digital Policy Office (DPO) and the Civil Service College (CSC), introducing the homegrown large language model "HKGAI V1" developed by HKGAI and its applications.
In an article on students emerging as bargaining chip in China-US trade talks in London this week, SOSC Prof. Emeritus David ZWEIG, who is also the author of The War for Chinese Talent in America: The Politics of Technology and Knowledge in Sino-US Relations, noted students become a key mechanism for tech transfer.
A joint research team comprising members from HKUST and Kuaishou Technology has proposed the EvoSearch (evolutionary search) technology, which significantly enhances the quality of model generation by increasing computational power during inference.
SOSC/PPOL Prof. Stuart GIETEL-BASTEN commented on an article on global declining fertility rates that it was the first time that the UN has taken such a strong stance on low fertility issues, adding that low fertility, population ageing, population stagnation were used as an excuse to justify nationalist, anti-migrant policies and gender conservative policies.
PPOL Assoc. Prof. Alex HE Jingwei identified healthcare access as the biggest challenge for HK retirees in Mainland China and proposed that the government take five measures to address their needs, including enhancing the portability of welfare benefits and developing long-term care insurance.