The Government of Spain faces a new and big problem, in case they were few, after the launch of Alia, its public artificial intelligence project. Presented just a week like the «Spanish chatpt», It is designed to operate in Spanish and co -official languages, but has already shown having enough problems speaking in the language that supposedly dominates.
The news has fallen as a jug of cold water on the Ministry of Digital Transformation, which had announced Alia as a revolutionary tool, although they already clarified that it did not enter their plans to compete with technological giants such as Openai.
Even so, nothing is an excuse and the first tests carried out by users and experts have seen that the system can barely have basic conversations in Spanish.
President Pedro Sánchez, who only a few days ago had «published the first models of Alia», now keep silent against the flood of criticism. The investment of three million euros in the project, which starts from the 1.5 billion destined to the 2024 artificial intelligence strategy, is being questioned very in doubt by the opposition and experts in the sector.
Of course and as expected, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, responsible for the development of Alia, is in the eye of the hurricanewith all kinds of experts who question how a world -renowned supercomputing center has been able to create such a limited language model, especially taking into account the resources invested, although speaking of them are not especially excessive.
Alia vs. Chatgpt: It is clear that there is nothing to compete
The comparison with Chatgpt, the OpenAi giant, is inevitable, but very easy to answer whether someone questions whether or not it is better than this OpenAi chatbot. While the American language model can hold perfect conversations in Spanish about topics of all kinds, Alia seems to crash against the ground with simple phrases and day -to -day contexts.
To all suck the following: although it has been sold as a trained to give weight to Spanish, Catalan and other Spanish official languages, English and other EU languages are majority.
Specifically, 39.31% of the data are in English, 16.12% in Spanish, and others such as French, German or Russian, touch 5%, compared to 1.97% of Catalan, a 0.31% of the Galician and 0.24% of the Basque.
Despite criticism, The Government insists that this AI is still under development and that its true potential will be seen in applications that use its models for a not too distant future. Without going any further, two pilot projects have already been announced: an internal chatbot for the Tax Agency and a tool called Cardiomentor to improve the diagnosis of heart failure in primary care.
As always, one of lime and another of sand, because there are many other experts who ask for patience and remember that the development of AI is a complicated process, with many potholes and that needs time. They comment that potentially alia could become a tool of great value for public administration and Spanish companies. At the moment, it’s time to wait.
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Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Spain, Software