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Denmark to build one of the most powerful AI supercomputers

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Re: Denmark to build one of the most powerful AI supercomputers

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Dedicated to medical research. They also have a large investment in quantum computing.

"medical research"? Yes, that's it.

In Terminator 2

" John Connor: You know what you're doing?

The Terminator: I have detailed files on human anatomy.

Sarah Connor: I'll bet. Makes you a more efficient killer, right?

The Terminator: Correct.

"

Re: Denmark to build one of the most powerful AI supercomputers

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I just had a nice chat with Bing about this and Bing is adamant that it's because they are "essential for solving complex problems, advancing AI models, accelerating innovation, and providing competitive advantages in technology and research".

And definitely not because anything with "AI" in the name is now virtually guaranteed to attract far more investment and government support than things without "AI" in the name. Bing was very clear about that.

Re: Denmark to build one of the most powerful AI supercomputers

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Not for long since H100 are now a previous much slower generation.

Still, good for a country to have it's own on-prem AI supercomputer than being at the mercy of foreign cloud providers who can terminate you at any time because your research breaks some obscure and vague ToS they made up.

Re: Denmark to build one of the most powerful AI supercomputers

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Not for long since H100 are now a previous much slower generation.

Still, good for a country to have it's own on-prem AI supercomputer than being at the mercy of foreign cloud providers who can terminate you at any time because your research breaks some obscure and vague ToS they made up.

But don't they already have the EuroHPC infrastructure?

Re: Denmark to build one of the most powerful AI supercomputers

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Why do we need cars? Horses work fine already Why do we need smartphones? Blackberry works fine already Why do we need 100Mb/s internet? 10Mb/s works fine already Why do we need 24 inch monitors? 19 inch works fine already Why do we need 3.2GHz laptops? 2.4GHz works fine already Why do we need better headphones? Stock wired earbuds work fine already I could go on forever :)

> Why do we need cars? Horses work fine already > > Why do we need smartphones? Blackberry works fine already

...but there's a difference. Op isn't saying "why AI?"

- why do we need supercars, cars are just fine? - why do we need megaphones, phones are just fine?

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