Ai-in-Europe

So you decided to modernize your company. You are in the EU and producing highly technical products and/or handling sensitive data, like advanced electronics, military or medical. You have not been living under a rock, so you now that there is power in measurement and data, and especially big data, and a lot of measurements. The industry meta-game is to offload the data handling to Google Cloud, AWS or Microsoft Azure, but sending all your data to servers in the US concerns you. Especially with the current state of global politics. So what options do you have? ...

OK, I already missed the second day of my everyday blog-post challenge about “AI in Europe”. But here we go: The world of Artificial Intelligence has many components. I believe the popular image of this world is a bunch of chatbots, large corporations and big data-centers.. I want to show people a much wilder image of AI. Not only what it could be, but what it already is! The Chatbots and the GPTs The GPTs 1 are the engine of most of the chatbots and other text-based applications. Us ML, Deeplearning and AI fans were following the progress on the sideline, seeing them evolve from GPT1 to GPT2, to GPT3, from which ChatGPT were born, and beyond. The GPT models were enabled by an exponentially growing data-set of digitalized books, articles, music and videos. Alongside a rapid development of GPUs and dedicated versions of them called TPUs. Parallel to this we have been following a similar emergence of intelligence. ...

The news about AI is skewed. Speaking as an EU-citizen, the market looks US-sided with China as the adversary. I feel a need to bring EU and the rest world into the light that shines on my particular spot on the globe. With OpenAI, Google and Anthropic getting most of the attention and praise, they are also getting the money and the data. I watched the video linked to AI 2027 1 (it was suggested to me on YouTube). The website is a war-game exploration of the alignment problem with Artifical General Intelligence (AGI), and the story is a great starter for more fruitful conversations about what possible futures we might look into with the emergence of AI. I really liked it! ...