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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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tomwojcik wrote: post #125
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.

Malta makes money with igaming and money laundering. There's literally no other businesses there, other than basic necessities, and even these barely work. It's only focused on entertainment. They import food and water. Malta is very hot during the summer. There's AC unit everywhere and it's a default cooling unit as well, as there's no "European winter" there. Everyone collects rain water and stores it on the roof.…

Most of your comments have nothing to do with operating a data center, and seems like you have some ill feelings towards Malta. Tourism, manufacturing, financial services are all other industries apart from igaming. Parts of your phone are likely to be made in Malta.

Presumably what you refer to as "money laundering" is the impression that Malta attracts foreign investments by offering regulation for poorly regulated industries and tax incentives. Which is essential to maintain competitiveness as a small state. You'd be surprised to hear that most money laundering in Malta is not tied to the igaming industry at all.

Malta is not a good place for a data center because real-estate is expensive and cooling is expensive.

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

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Post by chm02 »

bwb wrote: post #163
chm02 wrote: post #145

Some key data points, about Malta: Malta is among Europe's leading adopters. The country ranks first for workplace AI usage and third overall for general AI adoption. Beyond AI, Malta also has one of the highest rates of social media usage in Europe. This initiative is less about AI literacy or OpenAI and more reflective of the Malta government's policy of making technology accessible across all society. It's not the…

How is press freedom in Malta? Was everyone ever held responsible for the car bombing of Daphne?

I'm not sure what this has to do with AI but press freedom is poorer than most western European countries and the prosecution has left a lot to be desired. There are rumors of a trial happening later this year.

As a local the Daphne case has been a sore point and something which makes me very angry and sad. However it's not the only country with debatable press freedom. It's somewhat difficult to know that my country has been reduced to a single bad episode.

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Post by Muromec »

34df wrote: post #72
Muromec wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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.

In a limited way it is more intelligent than some people, but it doesn't generalise.

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Post by sdfhbdf »

chm02 wrote: post #145

Some key data points, about Malta: Malta is among Europe's leading adopters. The country ranks first for workplace AI usage and third overall for general AI adoption. Beyond AI, Malta also has one of the highest rates of social media usage in Europe. This initiative is less about AI literacy or OpenAI and more reflective of the Malta government's policy of making technology accessible across all society. It's not the…

Malta is also a very small country. It has a population of around 500,00 and area of around 310 km2. These are roughly the size of Atlanta, Georgia. It’s not hard to have a high adoption rate if your entire population is so small.

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Post by frabcus »

bazzmt wrote: post #167
bwb wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is press freedom in Malta? Was everyone ever held responsible for the car bombing of Daphne?

Press freedom is absolutely not an issue. Certainly much much better than, say, the UK's where getting arrested for a tweet is common. Regarding DCG's case: trial of the prime suspect due in July I believe. DCG's tragic case was a one-off. Attacks on democracy are much more common and frequent in other Western countries.

Reporters without Borders recently released Press Freedom Index 2026 puts Malta 67th, and the UK at 18. So no, certainly not much better - although looking at some of the historic data, it was better e.g. in 2010.

https://rsf.org/en/index

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Post by ffsm8 »

rukshn wrote: post #147
foxfired wrote: post #110

We had a mandatory ChatGPT training course at work. You had to sign up in limited space classes. This is a large company, needless to say it was chaos to get a significant number of people to participate. I got a spot. We were shown how to copy and paste data from excel and other data sources into the chat interface. We had sample data to work with, there was always someone in class who would say "mine didn't work."…

I’m now responsible for improving AI literacy in the organization I work. But the people in charge just want the employees to just answer some questions so they can handover Claude or Chat GPT licenses so they can show people are using AI to improve productivity. There are people who don’t know when to use AI and when not to use Ai and think they can just Claude their way through everything. I wanted to change that b…

I was on a quarter demo the other day and the project lead for ai innovation was talking about the things he's preparing for the company.

I will not address the things he pitched (as coming soon), as I'm a developer and (hopefully) not the target audience, but I was quiet surprised when they made a questioneer asking how many people use ai and how frequently. (The target demographic was middle management, product owners etc)

75% of people answering said they're using it daily and considered it an essential tool they need to work

Considering it was anonymous I was expecting lower numbers, honestly.

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Post by chm02 »

sdfhbdf wrote: post #175
chm02 wrote: post #145

Some key data points, about Malta: Malta is among Europe's leading adopters. The country ranks first for workplace AI usage and third overall for general AI adoption. Beyond AI, Malta also has one of the highest rates of social media usage in Europe. This initiative is less about AI literacy or OpenAI and more reflective of the Malta government's policy of making technology accessible across all society. It's not the…

Malta is also a very small country. It has a population of around 500,00 and area of around 310 km2. These are roughly the size of Atlanta, Georgia. It’s not hard to have a high adoption rate if your entire population is so small.

Exactly. Which means this is less about adoption or literacy and more of a government handout.

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Post by wiseowise »

bingaweek wrote: post #114
gmerc wrote: post #112

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Thanks Ivan

The overt hatred people here feel for Russians would make an antisemite blush. This is on the same level as calling random people Schlomo.

> but what about Jews

Seriously? Is all that you’ve got?

Don’t want the hatred? Stop the biggest war in Europe since WW2, stop racketeering on a region level, stop acting victimized when there’s no one else to blame for your own actions and start finally working with other countries to build strong partnerships.

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