Ukraine was excluded from the list of countries in which the use of chatbots with artificial intelligence ChatGPT developer OpenAl, after which the product became available to Ukrainian users, said Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Digital Transformation Mikhail Fedorov in Telegram.
“ChatGPT is now available in Ukraine. The team of the Ministry of Digital Transformation worked on this solution for a long time – official letters, calls and meetings with the management. And finally, we managed to correct an injustice,” Fedorov pointed out.
The program will not work in the temporarily occupied territories of Russia, so that enemies will not use it for anti-Ukrainian propaganda, Fedorov specified. “ChatGPT has an excellent command of the Ukrainian language, unlike the Russians,” he noted.
The head of the Ministry of Digital Economy thanked the developer company OpenAI and advisor to the head of the Office of the President, President of the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) Timofey Milovanov for his assistance in solving the problem.
Earlier it was reported that Ukraine was included in the sanctions list of countries, the use of ChatGPT in which was prohibited. The list also includes Russia, Belarus and Iran. The reasons for this selection were not reported.
At the same time, as indicated in the media, Ukrainian users found more than five ways to bypass the blocking, in particular by using foreign SIM cards of foreign mobile operators, using VPNs, changing the country binding in Google, using extensions for the Google Chrome browser.
ChatGPT rapidly gained popularity on the Internet after its launch in late November 2022: the number of chatbot users reached 100 million in the first two months of its existence. Its ability to mimic human conversation has sparked speculation that it could replace professional writers and even threaten Google’s search business, Bloomberg wrote. Chat is capable of generating texts of any size and HTML markup code, as well as responding to queries in a human-like manner, maintaining a dialogue and answering follow-up questions.
KSE has already opened enrollment in a free workshop on using ChatGPT and is considering a full training course, Milovanov wrote on his Facebook page.
Microsoft has already invested about $1 billion in OpenAI. The company is also working to incorporate ChatGPT chatbots into its Bing search engine.
Ukraine in January 2023 decreased imports of coal and anthracite (HS code 2701) in 48.1 times (by 1 million 805.902 thousand tons) compared to the same period in 2022 – up to 38.318 thousand tons.
According to the State Customs Service, the coal was imported for $13.605 million, which is 31.3 times less than in January 2022 ($426.314 million).
Coal from Australia came to $7.92 million (58.21%), Poland – $5.627 million (41.36%), South Africa – $0.058 million (0.43%).
Ukraine’s exports of coal in January 2023 amounted to 51,453 thousand tons worth $15.151 million, including to Slovakia – $10.09 million, Poland – $2.041 million, Austria – $1.994 million and other countries – $1.026 million.
As reported, Ukraine in 2022, reduced imports of coal and anthracite in 4.2 times (14 million 932.904 thousand tons) compared to 2021 – up to 4 million 630.144 thousand tons.
Coal was imported for $1 billion 179.113 million, which is 2.1 times less than in 2021 ($2 billion 488.698 million). The Russian Federation received $431.082 million worth of coal (pre-war supplies, a 36.56% share of imports), the United States $309.178 million (26.22%), Australia $199.491 million (16.92%), and other countries $239.363 million (20.3%).
Ukraine in January this year reduced the export of semi-finished carbon steel products in physical terms by 92.1% compared to the same period last year – to 38,341 thousand tons.
According to statistics released by the State Customs Service (SCS), in monetary terms, exports of semi-finished carbon steel products in January 2022 declined by 93% – to $20.897 million.
The main export was carried out to Poland (54.20% of supplies in money terms), Denmark (24.91%) and Italy (11.31%).
In January-2023, Ukraine did not import any semi-finished products, whereas in January-2022 it imported 2.606 thousand tons of these products for $1.546 million. Imports were carried out from Russia (100% of supplies).
As reported, in 2022, Ukraine reduced the export of semifinished products of carbon steel in physical terms by 72% compared to the previous year – to 1 million 899.729 tons, in monetary terms by 70.9% – to $ 1 billion 191.279 million. The main export was carried out in Bulgaria (26.55% of supplies in monetary terms), Poland (13.97%) and Italy (12.13%).
In addition, Ukraine imported 5.558 thousand tons of similar products in 2022, which is 85.7% less than in 2021. In monetary terms, imports decreased by 86% – to $3.634 million. Imports were carried out from the Russian Federation (96.92% of supplies – before the war), China (1.84%) and Romania (1.21%).
Structure of registered unemployed as of 12.01.2022 by age group
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Ukraine will be ready to take part in the CO2 emission quotas trade and may start it already in 2024-2025, Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Ruslan Strelets told the Interfax-Ukraine news agency.
“Ukraine can already in 2024-2025 to start trading quotas. The issue is not on pause. In 2023, we have already signed an agreement with the Swiss Confederation, signed a relevant memorandum with Japan, and with many more countries we are now negotiating agreements already directly on quota trade under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement,” Strelets said.
“We already have certain steps, not just conversations,” he added.
According to him, since January 1, 2022, Ukraine is implementing a system of monitoring, reporting and verification at the installation level. “To date, the ministry has already registered more than a thousand installations, and we are already receiving reports,” Strelets said.
According to him, the process has slowed down somewhat due to the full-scale invasion of the country by the Russian Federation, but the movement continues.
In addition, in preparation for the trading of quotas, the team of the Ministry of Natural Resources is preparing a bill that will enable to build a system to verify the monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions.
At a recent joint meeting with the Ukrainian government, European Commissioner for the Environment Virginijus Sinkevičius stated that the EU-Ukraine focus dialogue on the European Green Agreement and the Green Transition has been put on pause because of the war. According to him, Brussels is ready to resume it when Ukraine is ready. Sinkevicius noted the importance for Ukraine to implement a functioning system of monitoring, reporting and verification at the installation level as a first step towards the ETS (Emissions Trading System).
Ukrainian companies in January this year, imports of copper and copper products in value terms decreased by 20.9% compared to the same period last year – up to $ 6.368 million.
According to customs statistics, released by the State Customs Service of Ukraine on Thursday, the export of copper and copper products for the period decreased by 56.2% – to $ 6.407 million.
In addition, Ukraine reduced imports of nickel and its products by 96.2% in January 2022 compared to January 2021 – to $312 thousand, aluminum and its products – by 33.6%, to $26.529 million. In addition, Ukraine reduced imports of lead and its products by 95.4% – to $32 thousand, imports of tin and its products by 20.4%, to $172 thousand, and zinc and zinc products – by 67%, to $2.238 million.
Exports of aluminum and aluminum products in the first month of 2023 fell 33.7% from January 2022 to $6.776 million, lead and lead products fell 41.4% to $1.633 million, and nickel and nickel products were $3,000, down from $397,000 in January 2022.
There were no zinc exports last month, whereas in January-2022 it was $220 thousand. Tin exports and products totaled $17 thousand in January-2023, whereas in January-2022 there were no.
As reported, Ukrainian enterprises in 2022 decreased imports of copper and copper products in value terms by 64.3% compared to the previous year – to $ 65.370 million, their exports decreased by 56.3% – to $ 90.245 million. In December-2022, imported copper and copper products for $ 6.107 million, exported – to $ 6.956 million.
In addition, Ukraine has reduced imports of nickel and its products by 49.9% in 2022 compared to 2021 – up to $59.754 million (in December – $0.668 million), aluminum and its products – by 33.4% to $340.398 million ($29.457 million). At the same time, the imports of lead and lead products decreased by 66.6% to $2.839 million ($12 thousand).
Imports of tin and tin products fell by 33.5% to $3.312 million ($171 thousand), while imports of zinc and zinc products decreased by 58.7% to $38.690 million ($4.386 million).
Exports of aluminum and aluminum products for 2022 decreased 42.7% from 2021 to $96.972 million ($6.330 million in December), lead and lead products decreased 68.7% to $11.970 million ($1.396 million), and nickel and nickel products decreased 73.9% to $1.268 million ($0.1 million).
Zinc exports for 2022 were $1.331 million ($11,000 in December) compared to $550,000 in 2021. Tin and products exports for 2022 were $424,000 ($1,000 in December) compared to $346,000 the previous year.
