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TRACE is a proposed retrieval-augmented conversational engine for public service chatbots that improves constraint-aware recommendations by strengthening retrieval quality over noisy directories, reducing hallucinated responses.
South Korea plans to provide every citizen with free, unlimited access to an AI chatbot called 'AI for Everyone', using homegrown AI models and powered by 512 GPUs. A trial launches in September, with full public service ambitions by 2027.
An opinion piece proposes taxing major tech companies to fund a non-profit, ad-free children's public internet, modeled after children's public television.
Engineer Patrick Schlott is restoring old pay phones in rural Vermont, converting them to free VoIP-based phones that allow calls anywhere in the US and Canada, providing a public service in areas with poor cell coverage.