About a quarter of South Koreans already pay for AI services, compared to just 2% of Americans

South Korea is preparing to offer free generative AI services to its entire population, using the technology to help people handle everyday tasks such as booking medical appointments, finding housing, and sorting out taxes.

The program is intended to expand access to homegrown AI systems while giving the government a larger role in how they are used for everyday services.

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    The services are expected to connect to government systems rather than function solely as standalone chatbots. Residents will be able to use them to book doctor appointments, search for apartments, and get tax guidance. Small businesses will be able to calculate taxes and check whether they qualify for government support. Parents will receive recommendations for educational content.

    I doubt if any of this is a good idea. Put my trust in an LLM, and specifically for the more important aspects of my life? Not for me. But maybe people will. I have learned I’m bad at predicting the masses.

    The government plans to distribute up to 512 Nvidia B200 chips among the three consortia and help cover operating costs.

    That seems like a very low number for a population of 50’000’000 of which a fourth is currently paying for AI access. I mean it’s less than what would be in sixteen NVL36x2 racks. That’s like one aisle in a data center. And they want to split it over three groups… okay?

    I am beginning to wonder if this is a genuine attempt, or if they just want to pump the KOSPI, since Samsung and SK Hynix profit so much off of selling shovels (the shovels are memory in this case).

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      I am beginning to wonder if this is a genuine attempt, or if they just want to pump the KOSPI, since Samsung and SK Hynix profit so much off of selling shovels (the shovels are memory in this case).

      The entire Korean stock market is just 3 companies in a trench coat as seen when the bottom recently fell out.

      Same thing happened recently in Japan too with the US diving to try and save them by selling bonds and buying yen to no avail.

      But there’s no bubble, right? I’m sure that won’t happen to the US, the stock market is way more diversified and it’s not 5 companies all trading the same money back and forth, right? Right?

      Can we abolish the stock markets yet?

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      You’d be surprised how far it goes when you aren’t doing training. I’m serving an entire university on 1/2 of a 6000B