Singapore Government Issued It updated National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence (AI) 2.0 on December 4, outlining how it plans to embrace innovation and tackle the challenges associated with the technology.
Singapore structured its AI strategy into three different systems, including ten “enablers” who drive those systems and then 15 action steps to make the systems work. Its first AI strategy was introduced in 2019.
The updated plan’s systematic approach focuses on three main areas of society, including what it calls “activity drivers,” “people and communities,” and “infrastructure and environment.”
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Among the action steps is Singapore’s plan to develop new AI “centres of excellence” (CoEs) among companies operating in the country to foster “sophisticated AI value creation and utilization across key sectors”.
The updated AI plan also sets out standards to equip government agencies with “specialized knowledge, technical capabilities and regulatory tools” and “sharpen” AI proficiency across all Singapore public officials.
According to the vision, Singapore plans to use its government capacity to create resources to support AI adoption in the public sector.
Additionally, it said it plans to increase the number of “AI practitioners” or local experts to 15,000 by expanding AI-specific training programs and technology and AI talent pipelines, and that it will “remain open” to global talent.
The report said that various technical training programs focused on AI development have so far placed more than 2,700 individuals in “good jobs”.
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Singapore, like Many other countries around the worldsaid it also plans to increase its computing capacity.
To do this, Singapore said it plans to “deepen” partnerships with key players in the industry, including chip makers and cloud service providers (CSPs), as well as support local Singapore-based compute industry firms. .
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It plans to implement its action steps over the next 3-5 years to support its ambitions in the AI sector.
Singapore is following other countries in adopting AI. Recently, at its AI Security Summit, the United Kingdom said it plans to invest £300 million in acquiring and operating 2 AI supercomputers to boost its footprint in the global AI race.
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