EU officials should create an environment where abundant private companies can afford to put out many great open models instead of funding some selected individuals with taxpayer money.
EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages
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> For fresh startup - probably not. highly doubt, the whole thing about the success of the US west coast is that they are&were willing to fund unproven upstarts.
Right but if we do this with public funds then the narrative shifts to "OMG the EU is so corrupt and stupid, looking they're pouring taxpayer dollars into unproven stuff! They're deindustrializing!!" The point being that, as soon as public dollars are on the table, people expect perfection. Anything less is waste, fraud, and abuse. There's literally no winning. Want to make sure the money is allocated right? Bureaucr…
The winning move is that governments should do government stuff and private capital should do private capital stuff. Startups belong to the latter.
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#314Earlier quoted context omitted.
I literally quoted the paragraph from this link in the tweet I provided: Edit : lol, I didn't, I quoted it from a policy document, not from press release. However, my point stands: --- start quote --- Apply AI Strategy The Apply AI Strategy aims to harness AI's transformative potential by driving adoption of AI across strategic and public sectors including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, energy, mobility, manufacturing,…
Seems like your quote was very misleading to me, so no your point doesn't stand.
> Seems like your quote was very misleading to me, so no your point doesn't stand
My quote: Cluster: for public benefit, cutting edge research in biotech, medical, robotics.
Literal quote from your link: The Apply AI Strategy aims to harness AI's transformative potential by driving adoption of AI across strategic and public sectors including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, energy, mobility, manufacturing, construction, agri-food, defence, communications and culture.
You: your quote was misleading.
I'm sorry, I don't have the time or the patience with willfully ignorant and blind people getting their interpretations from AI slop engagement farmers.
Adieu
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Levels is engagement farming. Instead of uncritically reposting him you could've gone ahead and read what the cluster is for: https://x.com/dmitriid/status/1982927767286231403 Cluster: for public benefit, cutting edge research in biotech, medical, robotics. Levels: I want to create AI photos of people for my AI Slop startup
Unfortunately the AI Slop is probably the most effective way to fund AI research right now
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#316Can we add Gaumais to the list? I ask Llama3 questions on how to translate french to Gaumais, it was pretty good at it. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaumais
All the different italian dialects, patois in French, schwebish...
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#318For those curious, the 24 official languages are Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, and Swedish. Maltese, interestingly, is the only Afro-Asiatic derived language. Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian are the three Uralic languages. All the others ar…
Turkish?
Is official in Northern Cyprus. But as I understand it while the whole island of Cyprus is in the EU, the state of Northern Cyprus isn’t.
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The above is not a discovery though. My experience with government funding is that they apply something and won't even try to sell it because selling is hard: you don't want to know that the thing you built is lacking nor that the competition is better. Especially the academic types don't. Yet I'm paying for these guys. Also, by funding the academics they won't even need to go to the job market.. But as I paid for th…
Much of the neural network work was funded by Canadian Universities, and commercialized by US companies. Even if you look just at the "Attention is all you need" paper, which is primarily by authors working at Google, most of those authors come from academia and are immigrants. Vaswani is an Indian born computer scientist, Shazeer is US, Parmar was born in India, Uszkoreit was born in Germany, Jones was born in the U…
A major factor in European academics moving to the US is that top US institutes can charge a small fortune, and some of that gets reflected in academic salaries. Interesting move by the US government to try to put them off...
The wider availability of capital is a bigger deal though. "Attention is all you need" is available to people on other continents to read, but a computer scientist in Europe that understood exactly how big transformers were going to be and why had less chance of funding than a webdev in California with a pitchdeck full of cliches and me-too GPT wrapper for an industry they'd barely touched does today.
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off topic but it’s absolutely stunning how Russia once fought the nazis and now Russia are the nazis.
tbf, the USSR fought the Nazis mainly because they didn't have much choice after Nazis turned on them a little while after they'd teamed up with those ideological enemies to invade Poland, so it's not like they hadn't put the effort into being on the wrong side of history :)