This is literally just a scheme for the government to pay Altman’s company a fixed amount for every single citizen. The ultimate in crony capitalist bullshit.
One wonders if he is struggling to find a way to make the value of GPT models worth the price he needs to charge to keep them working.
I may only be a few years out of university, but over the last couple years I've learned that what I studied in university falls into three categories:
1) Incredibly out of date.
2) Far newer than what my job requires me to use.
3) Existing in some ideal world that matches nothing anyone actually created or uses in industry.
And yes, it's possible (and not rare at all) for both (1) AND (2) to be true at the same time.
All of above - at the same time - ends up in the middle of Gartner's hype cycles: a solution has been found 20 years ago and people are searching for problem it solves ever since.
One wonders if he is struggling to find a way to make the value of GPT models worth the price he needs to charge to keep them working.