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[โ€“] Flamekebab@piefed.social 10 points 1 month ago (13 children)

EU can't afford to ignore AI either.

Can't afford to set fire to large piles of money?

I'm being slightly flippant but I don't really understand what you meant by that.

[โ€“] noretus@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago (7 children)

EU can't be in a technological disadvantage when it comes to AI. Of course it wants to make it possible for European AI devs to have support, like a search index that also conveniently has the potential of favoring information that aligns with EU interests.

[โ€“] Flamekebab@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago (6 children)

EU can't be in a technological disadvantage when it comes to AI.

I think we might be at an impasse as "AI" currently seems to be a solution looking for a problem as far as I can see. Not that LLMs are completely worthless but the "hoover up the internet and hope something useful comes from it" approach seems to be a bit of a technological cul-de-sac that I think the EU would be better off ignoring. Let the other nations spaff money and resources on it, learn from their mistakes, then make a move. We're long past first-mover advantage after all, so we'd only be playing catch-up. Why not just wait a bit and leapfrog?

[โ€“] noretus@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

You could be very right but I doubt powers that be want to take that chance. That said, I do consider AI dangerous in the world of information warfare.

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