The AI Gigafactories call is now open.

[mbpaz@mas.to]

@HennaVirkkunen This is beyond absurd and only serves interests against the EU.

Fund microelectronics startups and chip foundries so that Europe has the capacity to create and manufacture faster, competitive, more efficient ICs without depending on supply from foreign sources. Streamline funding for SMEs. Increase funding for public education - there's an untapped potential in the poorest population segments. Open much larger immigration quotas for university students from poor countries, with free tuition so that EU universities and research centers become the aspiration for millions outside our small borders.

But you instead announce millions of euros will be spent (not invested) in short lived components from foreign companies that will require enormous amounts of energy. That, during a historic heatwave.

One can only hope this is a PR stunt aimed at transatlantic relations, and the bubble bursts or the transatlantic situation changes before this self harm is actually inflicted.

[daswarkeinhuhn@netzkae.se]

@HennaVirkkunen@ec.social-network.europa.eu what ist wrong with you

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@mkoek @paraw @HennaVirkkunen

yeah

chart your own path. learn from our mistakes. follow at a cautious distance

don't repeat our mistakes by desperately shadowing usa and china's techbro bonfire

[pcdevil@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen I believe that 30 billion Euro could be spent in much better cause when hundreds of thousands of EU citizens suffer the consequences of the climate crisis, rather than participating in a pointless technology arms race without any clear benefit.

[me_valentijn@m.ai6yr.org]

@evan @HennaVirkkunen
I'd rather have sufficient water and electricity than more locally produced slop.

[dodo_sipping@cupoftea.social]

@HennaVirkkunen thoughts & prayers. This your new god will suck the life from this planet.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@painting_squirrel @paraw @HennaVirkkunen

yeah

and at the end of the blossoming of real science from alchemy's superstitious foundations, we wound up actually turning lead into gold in a particle accelerator. at ridiculous cost and in infinitesimal quantities, but we did it

some massive computations persuasively mimicking human speech and human knowledge (dangerously, approximately) is as far from real intelligence as a goldfish. no insult to goldfish, they're smarter than AI

[jesterchen@social.tchncs.de]

@daswarkeinhuhn @HennaVirkkunen This question deserves a trophy. Here you are: ️

[astifter@mastodon.astifter.com]

@HennaVirkkunen Or as we would say here in Vienna:
Na des is jo a sehr guate Idee.
(Dripping with sarcasm.)

[kuulman@social.tchncs.de]

@HennaVirkkunen
Laskentatehoa ChatControllia varten. Samaan aikaan Leopoldin puistossa iso läjä kodittomia.

[jesterchen@social.tchncs.de]

@daswarkeinhuhn And for @HennaVirkkunen to get the right context: https://xoxo.zone/@Ashedryden/117008696441920540

AI is on the way to its demise. Never feed the hype.

[nayska@eldritch.cafe]

@HennaVirkkunen

[ukeleleeric@mstdn.social]

@remaster @HennaVirkkunen I disagree, 'ai' produces NO benefit for mankind.

[paularinkeli@mastoart.social]

@HennaVirkkunen I'd rather see Europe as a continent of natural, genuine intelligence.

[wendinoakland@beige.party]

@HennaVirkkunen insanity!

[amosmulder@mastodon.social]

@HennaVirkkunen Quite disturbing! Maybe first ask the citizens of Europe whether they even want to become an AI continent?

[ghostdancer@mastodon.sdf.org]

@meowki As the song says "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) "@HennaVirkkunen

[dwarf@borg.social]

@HennaVirkkunen@ec.social-network.europa.eu oh? I just checked the post on the remote instance and it seems my reply never arrived. Is my instance blocked??

[theplaguedoc@glitterkitten.co.uk]

@HennaVirkkunen No.

[miro_collas@masto.ai]

@HennaVirkkunen Very sad, short-term thinking. Focus on the climate emergency instead. And maybe ask EU citizens what they think.