alt Hacker NewsEuropean civil servants are also usually banned from using AI — perhaps with the exception of Microsoft copilot. They live in a bubble where they just don’t know. This goes for most academics as well.
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The European Commission actually has an internal AI chat platform with a selection of different models, and recommendations on which to use based on the classification level of the information that will be shared with the AI model.
Some are hosted internally (LLAMA models), other are sourced from commercial providers (Mistral, OpenAI).
About the only thing I learned from your comment is that most replies as of now only refute half of it. And it's also besides the point.
Maybe that's a good thing. I want people running my country to actually know how to do things.
What are you on about?
I don't know of any software or services that would be banned at my university. People use all sorts of LLMs extensively.
At least in Finland also civil servants are free to use what AI services they want, given they don't put in sensitive information. Just like they can use any search engine they want.
Ah yes. "It's so bad that people in government agencies cannot give sensitive info to US companies or blindly rely on LLMs for their decisions since nothing has ever happened when people in governments blindly trusted black boxes"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
https://www.politico.eu/article/dutch-scandal-serves-as-a-wa...
What do you mean by most academics? In Europe? That's just blatently untrue.