OpenAI and UAE in Talks For Free ChatGPT Plus For All, Report Says (thenationalnews.com) 12
An anonymous reader shares a report: Negotiations are under way between the UAE and OpenAI that may make the company's ChatGPT Plus artificial intelligence chatbot available to all residents free of charge, though a final deal has not been reached.
An agreement involving ChatGPT Plus would be part of the recently announced Stargate UAE infrastructure plan to create an AI hub in Abu Dhabi, according to a source familiar with the country's AI strategy. Abu Dhabi's AI company G42 has partnered with OpenAI, Oracle and Nvidia to set up Stargate UAE, a 1-gigawatt computing cluster that will operate in the newly established 5GW UAE -- US AI Campus.
An agreement involving ChatGPT Plus would be part of the recently announced Stargate UAE infrastructure plan to create an AI hub in Abu Dhabi, according to a source familiar with the country's AI strategy. Abu Dhabi's AI company G42 has partnered with OpenAI, Oracle and Nvidia to set up Stargate UAE, a 1-gigawatt computing cluster that will operate in the newly established 5GW UAE -- US AI Campus.
Why not (Score:2)
When you have a quick glance at the sheer size of a solar facility at shams dewa anything is possible.
This is how some countries become superpowers... (Score:5, Interesting)
This is what the US did in ages past. Invested in state of the art stuff, like electricity, plumbing, water/wastewater, etc. Texas had much of the state redone around lakes to deal with flooding, as well as provide a stable supply of fresh water. They invested... and the ROI was awesome, making towns like Austin actually doable.
You would never see that now. At best, money goes to private companies for stock buybacks.
If one compares the US to a farmer, the US isn't doing any tilling or dropping seed, and then wonders why there is no harvest to mention, all the while, China and other nations are actively seeding, fertilizing, etc.
Seems the UAE is starting to do do long term investments to ensure they have a future, post-oil.
Re: This is how some countries become superpowers. (Score:2)
And all those things were paid for by taxes, and they benefitted and furthered a healthy capitalist society. Today it would be decried as evil socialism and never make it out of committee.
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short term this may boost productivity. but as people use it more they end up relying on highly biased externals for their thinking, it'll shape their mind and also weaken their ability to think. which might be the goal: mind control
I have pretty strong conspiracy theorist leanings, but even at that I think your 'mind control' conclusion may be a bit over-the-top. Nonetheless, I don't think you should have been downmodded into oblivion; the rest of your comment is quite reasonable.
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"Mind control" at the population level, if not the individual level, should be quite doable. Whether "directed mind control" would be popular is another matter, and might well depend on the desired goal. But people seem to love to trust authoritative sources that feed their ego.
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"Mind control" at the population level, if not the individual level, should be quite doable. Whether "directed mind control" would be popular is another matter, and might well depend on the desired goal.
Fair point. Arguably, mind control at or close to the population level already occurs. Many of Trump's adherents are prime examples.
You're thinking it wrong (Score:2)
Perfect fit for Monarchies, Feudal societies, Oligarchies, Authoritarianism, Fascism. Many great minds have pointed this out.
Benefits for "the people?"
Think of it as a test run before rolling it out in the USA.
Imagine how HAPPY everyone will be to get something for Free!
Intelligence gathering, analytics (Score:1)
Sometimes, conspiracies are in fact true. Our various intelligence apparatuses of the world have firm grips in social media -- AI is no different. Indeed, AI is going to make it so much easier for this to take place -- along with control, yes it happens -- perception management, censorship, shadow banning, all of this is already happening (it has been). We are witnessing a very pivotal time in these mechanisms.
Some don't realize it's happening, and that's the point.
Reminds me of SimDesk (Score:2)
In 2001, there was a startup called SimDesk, that aimed to provide a cloud-based office suite "for all." Their target customers were city, state, and national governments. They would tell these governments that they would license all of the residents to use their software, as a way to "bridge the digital divide." In the end, they only got one government to purchase a license: the City of Houston. That enabled the company to boast that they had licensed their software to "6 million users" and that it could r