AI Action Summit in Paris (www.youtube.com)

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Closing session, speech by Modi, JD Vance, Ursula von der Leyen

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Heheh, yeah I agree, Europe is late to the race, but it's far from being over. We should harness the power and lead the way. Though the path has to lead in the right direction. And I really dislike Zensursula on a personal level. Sure she likes AI to protect our security and mess with the public health sector. But boy does this come with issues and the potential to lead towards a dystopian sci-fi world. And since Frau von der Leyen also likes Frontex, likely predictive policing, total surveillance of all German citizens... I'm really not sure if the future she has in mind aligns with mine. Her speech is good, though. Innovation, progress and open-source are all good things. But she's really good at speaking like a politician. And for example featuring $10 billion as the largest investment in AI is just correct since she adds the small restriction of talking about the public sector. This pile of money is completely dwarfed by private investment. And it's unlikely to be still true in a few days time. Or it's not even true as of today, since China has a whole coordinated public strategy for quite some time now. And politicians from the USA also already promised huge piles of taxpayer money to their AI companies...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yep and it looks like China is well on its way to being independent of the USA in the AI arms race, I just saw they are pushing out their own GPU models:

Chinese GPU Manufacturers Push Out Support For Running DeepSeek’s AI Models On Local Systems, Intensifying the AI Race

https://wccftech.com/chinese-gpu-manufacturers-push-out-support-for-running-deepseek-ai-models-on-local-systems/

Gotta say between them going all out on renewables reducing their reliance on oil and gas and all in on EV's and tech, it really feels like China has just stolen all of the EU's ideas and is straight up beating them over the head with it :(

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Last time I read something about this, they were still struggling massively with production. Yes, seems they're able to manufacture those chips, but the yield is low, which makes these GPUs uneconomical. They were more a very expensive tech demo. But there isn't a lot of detailed information out there. They might have made some progress since last year. I mean China isn't stupid. And they can't rely on Nvidia chips, so from their perspective there isn't another way, they need to swallow that pill and invest whatever amount of money it takes. And I'm pretty sure they can do it. It's just questionable whether they're there yet and if they're able to keep up. I have my doubts. But all of the actual information is mixed with propaganda and hype from all sides, so it's hard to tell. But they're determined and trying hard, I think that's a fact.

But yeah, I don't think Europe is leading in a lot of things. We should make an effort, though. Especially with the things that have become rarer. Like doing things ethically. And fostering democracy and freedom with the things we do and the technology we invent...

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