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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 kakacik »

ffsm8 wrote: post #178
rukshn wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 own…

Never expect anonymous voting/quizz/whatever to be fully anonymous in big corporations, if its something about touchy topics and/or can affect employment/performance of given person results will be skewed. If metric becomes the target it ceases to be a good metric and all that.

It all rest on the shoulders of responsible manager(s) on how moral they are. Many are not.

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

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Post by SlinkyOnStairs »

ffsm8 wrote: post #178
rukshn wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 own…

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

> (The target demographic was middle management, product owners etc)

This leaves a fairly wide set of options for what "essential" entails.

Do 75% of middle management and product owners actually need AI for their job? Seems unlikely.

Do 75% of middle management and product owners use AI to slop up emails, meeting "summaries", and reports? That's quite possible. Would they declare it to be an "essential tool"? One imagines they are not too fond of actually doing meaningful work.

It's quite easy to get high percentages like this when the AI is involved in make-work and the costs are low if not zero. The moment inference costs go up, most of this usage will evaporate.

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

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Post by wise_young_man »

realty_geek wrote: post #214
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."…

My saddest interaction recently was with a friend with a 1st class degree in computing and several years experience in software engineering in many prestigious companies. I asked if he had tried out Claude code or anything similar. His answer: My company has scheduled a training course in that so I'll wait :(

It’s sad to you that they have a life outside of work?

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

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Post by rrr_oh_man »

realty_geek wrote: post #214
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."…

My saddest interaction recently was with a friend with a 1st class degree in computing and several years experience in software engineering in many prestigious companies. I asked if he had tried out Claude code or anything similar. His answer: My company has scheduled a training course in that so I'll wait :(

> in many prestigious companies

That's the hint. Most companies >50 employees suck.

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

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Post by maltesegirl »

KnuthIsGod wrote: post #107

Malta is an important component of Russia's money laundering Laundromat system. "Malta’s corruption is not just in the heart of government, it’s the entire body" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/03/malta-...

This article gives a distorted view of my country. We have a largely normal government with normal levels of corruption. You can compare Malta to a municipality in a big country. I have lived in many north western European countries and at the municipal level I personally witnessed the same levels of corruption, that in my native Malta would be considered the biggest scandal of the year. It's all a matter of framing, propaganda and geopolitics.

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

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Post by layer8 »

realityking wrote: post #170
encrux wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For everyone in the EU: Copying and pasting sensitive data (like customer data) into AI tools is a violation of the GDPR, and potentially the AI act, which will be enforced soon. These violations come with hefty fines.

You’re brushing too broad a stroke GDPR only affects personal information. There’s plenty of sensitive business information that is not covered by GDPR - for example per business customer revenue data - that is legal to put into an AI tool but your employer may not want you to.

> business customer revenue data

Usually this would require the respective customer to agree to sharing that data with a third party.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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?

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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 kakacik »

chaosbolt wrote: post #231
KnuthIsGod wrote: post #107

Malta is an important component of Russia's money laundering Laundromat system. "Malta’s corruption is not just in the heart of government, it’s the entire body" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/03/malta-...

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US is becoming like russia, what a twist. Well, could be worse. Free democratic world will have to align around another leader, I hope it can be Europe but its far from sure.

The bad part is, this is not magically gonna disappear with next election, whoever wins. Literally whoever wins. Just like even decades after 9/11 many things have changed permanently, it will be similar with this. Proposers of some radical changes can be easily shot again, potus or not, or have some other variant of discrediting applied.

I wish I was joking, this is how majority of the world operates. Its very easy for those in power to drag their countries into this, out or weakness or convenience, but extremely hard to fully get out.

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

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Post by layer8 »

gurjeet wrote: post #209
yellow_lead wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A country is a region.

I believe GP's intent was to point out that a company can get into an agreement with a government (make an offer they can't refuse), but a company cannot get a "region" to sign an agreement/contract with them.

Regional governments exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Sicily

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

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Post by layer8 »

emsign wrote: post #104
sharpshadow wrote: post #86

It’s a voluntary two hour online AI course with 1 year ChatGPT premium reward. Getting AI basics to the people with playground.

Getting free data from every Maltese citizen rather.

Are you saying that OpenAI will deliberately violate the GDPR in Malta?
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