James Geoghegan (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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I thought I would have four minutes, so one minute is going to be challenging. Perhaps this is more a comment than a question. I found the point made about search engines interesting in that we all thought there were going to be lots of them. We used to use AltaVista and the world ended up using Google, but the witnesses do not think this is going to happen in the LLM world. In common parlance, when people think of AI now or even refer to it in media discussions, at least in this jurisdiction, they use the word "ChatGPT". It is the case now, at least, that when people talk about AI they are talking about just one example, OpenAI, although they might not know it. Why do the witnesses think we are going to have this multiplicity of LLMs in future? What will it mean in terms of State adaptation if there is a multiplicity of LLMs? How are we going to improve adaptation in healthcare, education, etc? How can this be done if one organisation does not talk to the other and there is different procurement from Department to Department? I wish the witnesses the best of luck in answering that in less than 20 seconds.