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Ireland’s newly appointed AI minister has admitted she has never used ChatGPT or downloaded the new chatbot DeepSeek on her phone. Irish Independent reported Tuesday. Niamh Smyth, the new junior minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, is responsible for trade promotion, artificial intelligence, and digital transformation. Smyth, who has been leading briefings about transformative technology in recent months, said it was “all a learning curve,” but she would learn quickly and apply herself to her new role. Smyth expressed concern about high-schoolers using AI-powered technology to do their homework. She also said that she is looking into the importance of supporting businesses and providing information around the benefits of AI to create efficiencies. He admitted to never having used a computer.
Yoshitaka Sakurrada, 68, said that he had never used a personal computer.
At a parliamentary meeting, Sakurada was criticized for appearing confused about basic technology questions. One opposition lawmaker was shocked, saying, “I find it incredible that someone responsible for cybersecurity measures never used a PC.”
Sakurada left his post six months later for reasons unrelated to the admission.
Not so many moons ago, Trevor moved from one tea-loving island nation that drives on the left (Britain) to another (Japan)…
Stargate Project: everything you need to know about OpenAI’s $500 billion gamble
Shortly after taking office, Donald Trump touted a new private business venture, led by OpenAI, which plans to spend half a trillion dollars over the next four years building the data centers and power production plants that America’s growing AI industry relies on.
“It’s big money and high-quality people,” Trump said during a January 21st press announcement alongside Sam Altman from OpenAI, Larry Ellison from Oracle, and Masayoshi Son from SoftBank. The project is “a resounding declaration of confidence in America’s potential” under his administration, Trump continued, despite the federal government not actually having anything to do with the project.
DeepSeek censorship is both a warning and a wake-up.
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The AI Industry is buzzing with talk about a large language model which is taking on the industry’s leaders like OpenAI and Anthropic. But not without its generous sharing of surprises. DeepSeek is the name.
This is a Chinese product. It is open-source. It is open source. ChatGPT Gov is bringing chatbots to Washington
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in a Monday X post commenting on DeepSeek’s sudden success, promised to “pull up some releases” – and it seems he has. OpenAI announced its newest product, a “tailored version of ChatGPT designed to provide U.S. government agencies with an additional way to access OpenAI’s frontier models,” on Tuesday. ChatGPT Gov is said to offer even more data security than ChatGPT enterprise, but how will the app handle the hallucinations which plague its other models?
OpenAI reports that more than 90,000 employees from federal, state and local governments across 3,500 agencies have accessed ChatGPT over 18 million times since 2024. The new platform allows government agencies to enter “nonpublic, sensitive information” in ChatGPT, while it runs on their secure hosting environments – specifically, Microsoft Azure commercial cloud, Azure Government community cloud, and cybersecurity frameworks such as IL5 or CJIS. Felipe Millon from OpenAI, Government Sales Lead, told reporters during the press conference on Tuesday that this allows each agency to “manage its own security, compliance and privacy requirements”.
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