@EUCommission

I don’t know if this account is actually monitored, or just a publishing place, but you may have noticed that this post has received almost overwhelmingly negative responses.

You could disregard this as Mastodon bias, but keep in mind that the biggest bias on Mastodon is that people who understand and built core parts of the information technology that you use every day are massively over represented. This is probably the only place you will get a lot of replies from people who both understand technology and do not have a financial incentive to hype things to get large amounts of government funding.

EDIT: I should add, I used machine learning during my PhD and there are a lot of problems for which it is a really good fit. But, in the current climate, it’s generally safe to interpret ‘AI’ as meaning ‘machine learning applied to a problem where machine learning is the wrong solution’. It isn’t a technology, it’s a branding term, and it’s a branding term used almost exclusively for things that have no social benefit.

@david_chisnall
And speaking as an AI positive person, in the sense one can do really nice this with it, when used responsibly by competent people, not when used as a hype buzz word.

WTF are "AI factories"?

"Skills academy"? Aren't university curricula not enough?

And if it's such a great help for industry, why does it need subsidies for adoption?
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@yacc143

"if it's such a great help for industry, why does it need subsidies for adoption?"

this part, right here. So much money and electricity wasted on glorified autocorrect.

Where is the consideration for the unethical way these models are created (using material they had no right to access) and used (such as CSAM, putting female politicians heads on porn actors, etc)?

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@jupiter @ProcessParsnip @yacc143 @david_chisnall @EUCommission

I think renewables are not really comparable.

Renewables have to get profitable in a system where fossil fuels dictate the prices and need to fit in 30 yr long existing delivery contracts.

To add: Getting started with AI is a €150/month subscription for the basic stuff, and there already are R&D subsidies if you want to pioneer in AI, or even just to incorporate it in a business.

@jupiter @ProcessParsnip @yacc143 @david_chisnall @EUCommission i tend to agree. However I'm no expert in subsidies or AI so i don't really have much credit on this topic.

The subsidies could be used to help pay for the content the models train on for example and to discover ways to break free of the current Transformer architecture limitations.