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Amália: A Portuguese AI for sure.
The base version of the Portuguese AI model Amália (Automatic Language Multimodal Assistant with Artificial Intelligence) is completed. This Wednesday, the sitewith frequent questions about the project.
It is part of the National Artificial Intelligence Agenda (IA), which should be known by the end of the year.
The Beta version of the Portuguese Language Great Model (LLM) was completed in the first half of the year.
In all, “about 60 people” are involved, including universities and partners, João Magalhãesone of the project coordinators, at a meeting for which Lusa was invited and took place at the Costa da Caparica campus, at the Faculty Science and Technology (FCT) of the New University of Lisbon, in the municipality of Almada.
Amália has digitized resources in the database and, at this time, has knowledge by 2023.
The project, which was announced by the Prime Minister Luís Montenegro In the start of the Web Summit in November last year, it is in half and now about nine months left for its conclusion.
At the meeting with the project’s technical team, which shared the progress made so far, Lusa tested the Portuguese LLM, which is still in the process of tuning.
“Amália will support Natural language, speech, image and videoThis is what we are doing, ”said the coordinator, adding that in the future the model can be used for application development.
“We are doing the Model ‘Core’ algorithm [base]“He stressed.
The goal is to “be able to learn the maximum knowledge of the data, this is what we are focused here,” said the researcher.
“We are not thinking much about applications, we are very focused on ensuring that the model can Follow instructions, human requests”And“ Has knowledge updated“He ended up.
Better than chatgpt in what?
On its website already available, “Ia Portuguese for sure” explains why it is better than chatgPT.
First of all, when he receives a question in Portuguese, ChatgPT answers as if he was talking to a Brazilian user. Amália, in turn, was made specifically to answer questions about Portugalin European Portuguese, without Brazilian terms.
Furthermore, Unlike chatgpt, Amália only works with official sources; And it is 100% contextualized for Portugal.
Chatgpt vs. Ia amalia
In this project, praises João Magalhães “we have not only the people who are inside this room” -about a twenty -but also universities such as Coimbra, Minho, Porto, who are officially in the consortium ”, such as“ Beira Interior and Évora, we have doctoral students and a master’s degree in collaboration and who are also indirectly contributed to the model ”, added the official.
