Singapore's Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan stressed the continued importance of human intelligence amidst rapid AI advancements. He cautioned against relying solely on large language models for solutions.

Even as Singapore positions itself at the frontier of AI technology, human intelligence still remains critical, according to the city state’s foreign minister Vivian Balakrishnan. “We should beware of just trying to throw every problem, and every step in a solution, at a large-language model (LLM),” he said on Saturday at the AI Engineer conference, referring to deep-learning technology behind generative AI services such as ChatGPT. Balakrishnan warned against discarding traditional AI models...