Scientists Plan Huge European AI Hub To Compete With US (theguardian.com)

Leading scientists have drawn up plans for a vast multinational European institute devoted to world-class artificial intelligence (AI) research in a desperate bid to nurture and retain top talent in Europe. From a report: The new institute would be set up for similar reasons as Cern, the particle physics lab near Geneva, which was created after the second world war to rebuild European physics and reverse the brain drain of the brightest and best scientists to the US. Named the European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems, or Ellis, the proposed AI institute would have major centres in a handful of countries, the UK included, with each employing hundreds of computer engineers, mathematicians and other scientists with the express aim of keeping Europe at the forefront of AI research. In an open letter that urges governments to act, the scientists describe how Europe has not kept up with the US and China, where the vast majority of leading AI firms and universities are based. The letter adds that while a few "research hotspots" still exist in Europe, "virtually all of the top people in those places are continuously being pursued for recruitment by US companies."

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Re:Font problem AI vs Al

[UnknownSoldier]

Digital fonts tends to be Sans Serif. This means glyphs such as one (1), uppercase i (I), lowercase L (l), tend to be very difficult to visually tell apart. It sucks.

Print fonts tend to be Serif -- glyphs are easier to tell apart but they also take up more space.

There are reasons we have Programming fonts -- which tend to be a hybrid between Serif and Sans Serif. Why? We need the ability to be able to quickly visually distinguish between similar glyphs.

Set 1: zero and O: O, o, 0
Set 2: one, I, and L: 1 I i L l
Set 3: five and S: 5 S s
Set 4: two and Z: 2 Z z
Set 5: parenthesis and brackets: ( { [ ] } )

Also due to crappy "low resolutions" monitors (anything less then 300 dpi), Sans Serif fonts are much easier to read, and they take up less screen space.
i.e. Pixel Fonts tend to be sans serif due to physically not having enough pixels for details -- the serifs.

If you want more details I've posted about Serif vs Sans Serif before.

You can also read about Typeface anatomy

Getting this back on-topic ...

The term A.I. is a bullshit term. It should be called Artificial Ignorance, or Algorithmic Table-Lookup because there is no fucking intelligence in there; in contradistinction to a.i. = actual intelligence. Take the worlds best Go/Chess program, change the rules of the game slightly, and watch it crash-and-burn. Where is all the intelligence it learnt? Oh wait, there is ZERO. It needs to play thousands of games to rebuild its tables.

At least the term Machine Learning isn't as obnoxious, plus the acronym, ML, is readable regardless if you use a Serif or Sans Serif typeface.

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Atheist, noun; a blind man arguing there is no proof of color.
Theist, noun; a monochromatic man arguing their color is the only valid color.