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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."
Are they going to have "computer programmer's motivator's?
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This is what Europeans do best: Plan it. They will have very impressive plans, committees, and meetings. Much more extensive and impressive than anything that China or the US will do. They will translate it into 24 languages, and meticulously ensure that the meaning is exact in all of them.
On the other hand when it actually comes to doing it....
You want "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream"? Cause this is how you get it.
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.
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.
They might need to have people working in the EU though, because the EU is very likely to regulate some AI use to protect its citizens. Stuff like AIs making decisions about people's lives, such as mortgage and job applications, is already under scrutiny.
That could also be a problem for the UK post-Brexit, because without regulatory alignment with the EU it will face the same problem as the US.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
China has shot far ahead of the US on deep-learning patents
You don't need huge institutes and government funding to do AI. The major government-sponsored AI initiatives have been largely wasted, whereas commercial AI is getting serious traction.
By invading the wrong countries. I suppose you could argue that any military system is subject to a percentage of bad judgment, and that dumb mistakes are part of the game.
Table-ized A.I.
They might need to have people working in the EU though, because the EU is very likely to regulate some AI use to protect its citizens. Stuff like AIs making decisions about people's lives, such as mortgage and job applications, is already under scrutiny.
That could also be a problem for the UK post-Brexit, because without regulatory alignment with the EU it will face the same problem as the US.
It will be business as usual - the UK government will draw red lines, will issue lofty patriotic communiqués, will claim that Britain rules the waves - and then will just pull its trousers down and will do as the EU tells it to do.
For the most part, they didn't ask for our help. Maybe if our military wasn't so big, they'd willingly increase theirs.
Table-ized A.I.
Call it, say .... Skynet.
Table-ized A.I.
Maybe they believe the USA exaggerates threats; that Fox News et. al. have made everyone paranoid. I won't confirm or deny that claim here, only say the perception exists in Europe.
Table-ized A.I.
Sounds like there might be a plot for a good movie in here. Oh, wait:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Check your premises.
Then don't. Let's slash our military. Solved!
Table-ized A.I.
To somebody used to have 30 days of vacation days each year, and 40 hours of work per week, without the expectation to slave away 24/7, those recruitment efforts by US companies are not that attractive.
I have worked for both US and EU companies, and would always choose the EU quality of life over the vague chance of some large bonus that US companies try to lure people with. Also, the way that US companies patronize their employees is simply awkward. Go away with your "codes of conduct" and all the other corporate crap!
An AI article actually about AI. I can die happy now.