Germany plans €3B in AI investments
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Germany plans €3B in AI investments
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Re: Germany plans €3B in AI investments
#2The amount doesn't matter. If this money will exist, they will be distributed in the most buerocratic way, making them irrelevant in a such a fast moving field.
Re: Germany plans €3B in AI investments
#3One could call it cute or funny, if it was not to the detriment of actually needed digital technology in the country, like broadband or support of IT startups.
But I am sure Deutsche Telekom will be quite happy about more state money, which is probably why they whispered this AI nonsense into the politicians ears. We can just write it up as another German success story, IT made in Germany. When has that ever not worked out in our favor?
Re: Germany plans €3B in AI investments
#4Oh great, more industrial policy. I'm sure the results of this program will be just as spectacular as Japan's fifth-generation computer.
Re: Germany plans €3B in AI investments
#5The amount doesn't matter. If this money will exist, they will be distributed in the most buerocratic way, making them irrelevant in a such a fast moving field.
You are right, but I was wondering how an alternative could look like. Probably just giving it to universities to create more and better paid PhD possitions?!
Re: Germany plans €3B in AI investments
#6The amount doesn't matter. If this money will exist, they will be distributed in the most buerocratic way, making them irrelevant in a such a fast moving field.
You are right, but I was wondering how an alternative could look like. Probably just giving it to universities to create more and better paid PhD possitions?!
That, and maybe instead of giving the money to a big, inefficient corporation that's going to spend it on low quality bullshit and snake oil, spreading the money along multiple established companies and startups, seeding them all with some money and offering additional incentives for achieving milestones/whatever.
Re: Germany plans €3B in AI investments
#7Here's the offical strategy (in German): https://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Content/DE/Downloads/...
While I'm very skeptical of this initiative for a number of reasons, I appreciate that they explicitly mention the need for Open Data and seem to commit to improving accessibility of governmental data sources.
Re: Germany plans €3B in AI investments
#8The amount doesn't matter. If this money will exist, they will be distributed in the most buerocratic way, making them irrelevant in a such a fast moving field.
You are right, but I was wondering how an alternative could look like. Probably just giving it to universities to create more and better paid PhD possitions?!
They'd probably get more return by 'encouraging' Google and American tech companies to open bigger offices.
Re: Germany plans €3B in AI investments
#9The people in these countries dont respect programmers, they pay them peanuts. How are they going to innovate?
Re: Germany plans €3B in AI investments
#10Oh great, more industrial policy. I'm sure the results of this program will be just as spectacular as Japan's fifth-generation computer. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_computer
It has worked great in the US, see the DARPA challenges etc. Plenty of those programs have worked out, it is pointless to point only at failed ones.