AFAIK if you spend at least 2 years studying here you automatically qualify for a 3 year work permit. I think rolling that into permanent residency is a lot easier than just applying for a work visa or PR out of the gate
International student tuition is way more expensive here in Canada than it is for citizens, but I’m not sure how it stacks up against normal US tuition.
Grain of salt, everything I’ve said is based on anecdotes from people I know who went through it
GPT is worse and it’s not even close.
My PC can serve up a hundred requests per second running an HTTP server with a connected database with 200W power usage
It takes that same computer 30-60s to return a response from a 13B parameter model (WAY less power usage than GPT), while using 400W of power thanks to the GPU
Napkin math, the AI response uses about 10,000x more electricity