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
@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. 😉
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