European Commission
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
Annika Backstrom
@EUCommission €1 billion wasted. These are resources that could be better spent elsewhere
JulesJones
@EUCommission Read. The. Room.
A *lot* of the people on Mastodon are creators who have had their intellectual property stolen to feed the generative AI models, with at least one of the billionaires involved openly admitting/bragging that his business model would not be profitable if they had to pay fair royalties for that intellectual property.
A lot of people on Mastodon are deeply concerned about the environmental damage, AI hallucinations, theft of personal/corporate data, and sundry other issues.
There are forms of analytical AI that are useful (e.g. analysis of medical images) and do not involve any of the above. You do not appear to be referring to such analytical models.
Reid 🖤
Shea
spoiler: no due respect is warranted
Raphael Albert
@EUCommission
Please make a screenshot of all the comments and send it to your superior. Ask them to send it to their superiors, until it reaches those in charge.
Here are people who know a thing or two about tech begging you to stop your PR and listen for once!
We can't afford to fall for every snake oil grift US Big Tech throws at us! We need the EU and those in charge to be really smart now, because as others have written, there's a lot at stake! Dare to resist the hype, for all our sakes!
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)
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.
Evan Prodromou
@EUCommission Digital independence is important for all aspects of technology -- AI, cloud, and social networking. Good luck with this effort.
Chip Unicorn
@EUCommission
Please -- be specific in what you mean by AI and what your goals are.
Do you mean LLMs? The goal of companies pushing LLMs are to eliminate white collar jobs. Is that your goal?
Do you mean data centers? Power-hungry, very hot centers where the expensive technology is out of date before it's installed?
Do you mean something else? One way you can really lead in AI is to keep your population educated (The EU does well with this) and to create a culture where failure is not forever (The EU is not so good at this.)
Good luck.
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