“While current LLMs have made impressive strides in general intelligence, they still fall short in specific domains in fields such as manufacturing and biochemistry,” Yang said in an interview with the South China Morning Post. Alibaba owns the Post.
“This gap exists because much of the relevant data for these fields hasn’t been incorporated into AI model development, because they cannot be crawled from the general web” she said. Yang added that general-purpose models require adjustments to fit specialised domains.
Yang leads PolyU’s newly established AI+ Academy, which aims to drive fundamental scientific breakthroughs. The team, primarily composed of students from domestic universities including PolyU, Zhejiang University and Harbin Institute of Technology, is working on “democratising AI development”.
