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EU rolls out $1.1 billion plan to ramp up AI in key industries amid sovereignty drive (www.reuters.com)
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BRUSSELS, Oct 8 (Reuters) - The European Commission on Wednesday announced a 1-billion-euro ($1.1 billion) plan to ramp up the use of artificial intelligence in key industries amid a push to cut the European Union's reliance on U.S. and Chinese technologies. The EU executive's Apply AI strategy followed an action plan unveiled in April which seeks to lighten the regulatory burden and costs for startups struggling to comply with landmark AI rules which entered into force in August last year.

The move also underscores Europe's goal of achieving strategic autonomy in key sectors amid trade tensions with the United States and China and the dominance of U.S. Big Tech. "I want the future of AI to be made in Europe," Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a statement. "AI adoption needs to be widespread, and with these strategies, we will help speed up the process. We will drive this 'AI first' mindset across all our key sectors, from robotics to healthcare, energy and automotive," she said. The Commission singled out healthcare, pharmaceuticals, energy, mobility, manufacturing, construction, agri-food, defence, communications and culture as critical sectors that should use more AI. Sector-specific measures under the Apply AI strategy include setting up a network of AI-powered advanced screening centres in healthcare and developing agentic AI in manufacturing, climate and pharmaceutical industries. The 1 billion euros will come from EU research projects such as Horizon Europe and the Digital Europe programme, which may encourage EU countries and the private sector to provide matching funds, the Commission said. ($1 = 0.8569 euros)

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[โ€“] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I think the best answer would be to combat algorithms altogether.

The most ethical we could do with AI, is to discourage the usage of DeepSeek, ChatGPT and Musk's filth, and the like; and to favour European models that are:

โ€ข energy efficient
โ€ข do not discriminate
โ€ข as accurate as possible
โ€ข states before every prompt, that information is not always accurate, and the reader should consult non-profit, scientific and educational sources instead

[โ€“] RiverRabbits@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No disrespect to you, but it is clear you don't understand the technology well.

Algorithms are, per definition, routine computations to perform a task. Even clicking on a link and then the browser requesting and displaying the page associated with it is an algorithm!

And about (generative) AI: -They cannot be made energy efficient because generation (giving you a text or image) is incredibly energy consuming -You cannot build an AI without bias or discrimination, because all your training material has to be unbiased and without discrimination - and social progress means that we will continue to recognize previously unknown harms in society. AI can only be as unbiased as its most biased training material. And the amount of data you need for training is too high to be efficient to gather before training. -AI cannot be made to be accurate. It is definitionally impossible, because it is basically an extension of auto-correct - it can only predict the next likely word from a huge collection of data. Accuracy is never a part of the algorithm of AI. -In terms of public service, it would be better to point out above chatbots that they can only generate legibile text, all other aspects are secondary.

So, in summary, what you suggest is technologically impossible, or at least misguided.

[โ€“] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

Well to specify, I mean algorithms for social media.

And isn't DeepSeek far more energy efficient than ChatGPT? Wouldn't it help to at least try to reduce it?

That said, thank you for the clarification, all that helps. I appreciate it.