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OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens

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Re: OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens

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Post by 34df »

dawnerd wrote: post #29
rendx wrote: post #3

> "Malta’s AI for All initiative will offer people of all backgrounds the opportunity to learn how AI can be used responsibly through a course developed by the University of Malta. The course is designed to help people understand what AI is, what it can and can’t do, and how to use it responsibly at home and work. After the course is completed, citizens can access ChatGPT Plus for one year at no cost to them."*

Gotta get them hooked and reliant on it. It’s why they subsidized the entire software industry to adopt it.

OAI really believes LLMs are going to have the same revolutionary effect as personal computers did.... lmao.

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Post by 34df »

Muromec wrote: post #26
ninjahawk1 wrote: post #12

I’m personally not a fan of OpenAI always referring to their model as “providing intelligence as a utility.” Sounds very condescending, are you saying this isn’t something we already have? If that’s the opinion, may be good to reflect on how the models were trained. On millions upon millions of books which no authors were compensated for. But that’s besides the point, the whole initiative is self-defeating by design.…

>I’m personally not a fan of OpenAI always referring to their model as “providing intelligence as a utility.” Sounds very condescending, are you saying this isn’t something we already have? We do and we don't. If you would go out there and talk to a random person about elliptic curves and matrix multiplications and whether you hit a performance ceiling in a specific 2x2 multiplication thingy with Karatsuba and wnaf,…

None of those things qualify as intelligence.

Is a calculator intelligent? I can 'talk' to it via pushing buttons.

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Post by foxglacier »

1295817 wrote: post #50

The comments here were not sufficiently obsequious towards AI companies, so the submission dropped from the front page to page three in minutes. That is how AI boosterism works here.

How?? Are you saying there's a lot of silent AI-boosters on HN voting it down despite almost every single comment here being non-obsequious? Looks like your model of reality has detached from modelling reality.

Re: OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens

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Post by pishpash »

blfr wrote: post #7

The subsidies deployed by the industry are so massive I don't even know if consumers need public assistance here. It's kinda like the gov was subsidizing web hosting or basic banking. The price for a regular consumer already barely hovers above zero. Just look at this list of services included in Google's AI Pro subscription[1]. Google took everything it could think any consumer might need and bundled for $20/mo. The…

That's not close to "everything ... any consumer might need". It's a list of useless things, other than 5TB of storage. Granted, cloud storage typically sells for more than this, so they are offering Gemini for something like -$15/mo.

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Post by SOLAR_FIELDS »

purrcat259 wrote: post #21
zitterbewegung wrote: post #5

Would be interesting long term if this sways public opinion about data centers in Malta. I do support though AI literacy in general and this is a good step. Would wonder about the deal in how much this is actually costing Malta if at all.

Unlikely. Other than the telcos there's only one proper commercial datacentre here. Space is very constrained and the electricity supply stability + summer heat aren't a fun combination

As a complete layman, I do wonder why you would bother building a datacenter at a place that everyone agrees is going to be basically underwater in the next 50-100 years.

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Post by alpinisme »

Sophira wrote: post #75
decimalenough wrote: post #28

It's a one year free trial, after that it costs money.

And only after a mandatory course, if I'm reading the article correctly.

Honestly depending on how it’s implemented the course could be really socially useful, both for establishing some baseline knowledge that could help avoid some of the pitfalls of too-credulous use of AI and for spurring people to innovate in their local businesses because they’ve been exposed to ideas earlier than would happen “naturally” as ideas just percolate through society

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Post by kovek »

ninjahawk1 wrote: post #12

I’m personally not a fan of OpenAI always referring to their model as “providing intelligence as a utility.” Sounds very condescending, are you saying this isn’t something we already have? If that’s the opinion, may be good to reflect on how the models were trained. On millions upon millions of books which no authors were compensated for. But that’s besides the point, the whole initiative is self-defeating by design.…

LLMs are like a search engine that autocompletes. It's a tool.

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Post by IncreasePosts »

SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #77
purrcat259 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unlikely. Other than the telcos there's only one proper commercial datacentre here. Space is very constrained and the electricity supply stability + summer heat aren't a fun combination

As a complete layman, I do wonder why you would bother building a datacenter at a place that everyone agrees is going to be basically underwater in the next 50-100 years.

You're thinking of the maldives.
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