ChatGPT

Axtremus · wrote on 26 May 2025, 17:41

ChatGPT Plus for all ... in the UAE:

https://www.thearabianstories.com/2025/05/25/free-ai-for-all-uae-becomes-first-to-offer-chatgpt-plus-to-every-resident-and-citizen/

"ChatGPT Plus" is something that costs $20/month if we want it. The UAE has struck a deal with OpenAI to make ChatGPT Plus available to all the citizens and residents of the UAE at no cost to them.

jon-nyc · wrote on 26 May 2025, 17:43

I wonder if a vpn to UAE is cheaper than my ChatGPT subscription

Axtremus · wrote on 26 May 2025, 17:49

I don't know.

But the ChatGPT you get in UAE may or may not be the same as the ChatGPT you get here.

Not that hard to imagine different localizations, be it naturally occurring because the underlying algorithms take the user's geographic location into account, or due to censorship placed by the governments in different jurisdictions.

Horace · wrote on 26 May 2025, 17:49

It'll be really interesting to see the long term effects on human cognition, when everybody has every answer at their fingertips. Living without an AI will feel like driving without GPS.

89th · wrote on 27 May 2025, 12:00

Agreed. Do kids even know how to use paper maps these days?

Axtremus · wrote on 27 May 2025, 12:19

Online maps don't look all the different from paper maps. Not like online search results looking very different from library index cards or digital clock looking very different from analog clocks.

I figure future generations will miss paper maps and associated skills like we miss sundials and the library card catalogs and their associated skills.

jon-nyc · wrote on 27 May 2025, 12:24

I still have my grandpa’s sundial.

taiwan_girl · wrote on 27 May 2025, 15:05

I still have an abacus, but almost never use anymore.

jon-nyc · 27 May 2025, 17:40

Nate Silver has a long substack post today about how surprisingly bad ChatGPT is at poker. I didn't read the whole thing as it got kind of poker-wonky.