Europe, the AI Continent.
One year ago, we launched the AI Continent Action Plan. Since then, we have made huge strides:
✅ 19 AI factories are now live across EU countries.
✅ We established the AI Skills Academy to train experts.
✅ The AI Omnibus is cutting costs for business.
✅ We have earmarked €1 billion to support AI adoption in industry.
We are building a secure and innovative AI future for Europe.
Here's how 👉 https://link.europa.eu/nj3VH9
@lumi @peachymist @EUCommission i let my EU citizenship expire
unity is cool and all. but why have a union of capitalists
@EUCommission
Maybe you got @peachymist wrong:
No 👏 one 👏 wants 👏 this 👏 stuff 👏.
You're welcome.
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@dianshuo @Gargron @EUCommission @peachymist
Products can fail and disappear from the marketplace.
Here's an entire museum dedicated to the history of commercial failures.
@kevin @Gargron @EUCommission @peachymist
Fully agree, there is a (big) difference between the two.
As an example, ML is extremely useful and good at translation languages — and that’s already since well before the chatbots started. Also a lot of other breakthroughs in science are done or improved with ML, and not GenAI, like protein folding.
While ML can be considered as a part of AI, it should be clearly separated from the LLMs which are, simply put, just random word combiners.
@Gargron @EUCommission @peachymist
+1 if AI is basically a synonym for LLMs.
If it’s about finally taking data quality serious, thinking hard about our underlying algorithmic problems and then applying heuristical methods, then yes please let’s do that and support institutions in this journey.
@Gargron @EUCommission @peachymist I’m afraid I can’t agree with you here. Europe is not a separate planet, isolated from the rest of the world. If we, as Europe, do not adopt and develop the most advanced solutions, we will simply lose our competitiveness - both in terms of products and the workforce.
We can already see this very clearly in the automotive industry. If we turn away from innovation, Europe risks falling into a deep economic crisis instead of strengthening its position.
@Gargron @EUCommission @peachymist 1) Work will shift: less manual coding, more reviewing, directing, and managing AI agents. 2) AI adds tools; it does not remove search engines or other ways of accessing knowledge. 3) Wealth is concentrated for now, but that is temporary - smaller local models are already emerging, even on phones.
You cannot be more competitive if you refuse to offer the services the market demands.
@mczachurski @Gargron @EUCommission @peachymist Absolutely and utterly disagree with point (1). That is entirely a choice, not a given, and plenty of people are chosing well to continue writing code (for a variety of crucial reasons).
As for (3), local models do *not* solve many of the ethical problems with how these models are built, trained, and propagated.
I really respect the work you've done in the fedi space. But we are clearly not in alignment on this topic.
@jaredwhite @Gargron @EUCommission @peachymist On point (1), in large companies this will not really be a choice. That is where most people earn their living. Those who do not adapt will lose opportunities, and their market value will decline.
On point (3), it is entirely possible to build models using only sources whose authors have given consent: documented, ethical, and open source. And once such models no longer belong to large corporations, those corporations will lose their dominance.
@jaredwhite @Gargron @EUCommission @peachymist We cannot talk about an AI-free continent and do nothing. That would be like calling for a continent free of machines during the industrial revolution.
Europe must engage and do this properly. The issue is not resources, but vision. I can imagine an euAI@Home project, like SETI@home, where a distributed network (open sourced) helps build transparent (open) models whose data and design we fully understand.
Perhaps I am being too optimistic. 😉
@EUCommission we don't want, we want choice, we want personal data protected from being used for IA training, we want choice about interaction with AI for services, or interaction with humans, and we want to be informed ahead of time if any of our data is going to be processed by AI and mandatory easy access to recourse to humans whenever AI processes data, specially in public services.
We want that all models be Open Source AI, and all data sets to be made fully accessibly by all
@EUCommission it olds greatest potential to ruin our lives, and not only you deciced to not protect us enough from being under surveilance with it, you're also proposing to weaken our personal data protections from it.
@EUCommission @peachymist I am a Software Developer. AI plays almost no role in my life. There are a few areas where algorithms are not the tool of choice and AI might be a solution (protein folding, translations).
Here is a list that has effects - that’s like potential but even cooler:
Desease Prevention: Tax Sugar, Ban alcohol ads
Reduce traffic fatalities: force speed limits (yeah especially for Germany where I’m from) 120-100 on highway, 30 in cities and towns
There is nothing to “harness”. This is not about “benefits”. Otherwise you wouldn’t repeat TechBros slang and DO something instead of throwing money at dubious and uncertain business models which rob tax money that could have made life’s better.
@EUCommission @peachymist the Commission’s first post uses “AI” to describe generative AI infrastructure. Its reply contains use cases where *non-LLM* AI is doing great things. I don’t think LLMs are helping with disease prevention or traffic fatalities. They’re helping write memos.
If the European Commission doesn’t understand the difference between machine learning algorithms and large language models, it shouldn’t make pronouncements about the utility of “AI”.
It also holds the potential to relegate huge sectors of the population unemployed, and to replace our thinking processes with mindless deferral. Not to mention how it is burning down the planet and sucking up limited water resources so that it can be wrong most of the time about most things. And devastating the income and credibility of artists and writers, musicians and creators of film, stealing from them and giving no credit. It is a blight, and it needs to be HEAVILY regulated, and completely shunned in most industries.
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