I must say, I am cautiously optimistic about the EU plans on that topic.

While the current hype-cycle and investment bubble mostly focus on the economically unsustainable LLM business, this plan is about providing access to processing power - which is neutral, and can be used for all kinds of applications. This includes actually useful and economically reasonable AI applications, but also non-AI computations that are suited for GPUs.

wouldn't it be beneficial for this endeavour to share purpose and realization efforts?

Just pouring money into it and some bragging? It sows doubt in your policy making, I'm afraid.

AI is mostly scam. Maybe not participating in AI contest may save us, at all?

We should not pay AI companies bill from our taxes. Let them bankrupt. Let's decentralize European internet, instead...

This could be spent on so many other, actually useful, things.

The only good thing about this proposal is that it's European and therefore has a chance that the data doesn't get leaked to regions with worse data protection than the EU.

But "AI" is a scam. It provides nothing other than being the latest gold rush. It's the exact same hype as blockchains and NFTs and all it achieved is the destruction of knowledge, culture and reality.

Careless deterministic automation has worstened bureaucracy and grew the distance between citizens and their public services.

Now, without any form of retrospection you're going one step further by deciding to ruin our environmenent to put everything in the hands of glorified statistical answering machines.

Should we attribute your actions to idiocy or malice?

There's also exactly ZERO reason for Turkey (an unreliable ally and a semi dictatorship) or Israel (a fascist ethnostate with a lot of "interesting" companies that work in spying and subversion — that toolkit with the winged horse for a name comes to mind) to be in this. Neither of them are European, neither of them are EU, neither of them align with European Values.

Oh and Serbia. Also yikes.

"human-centric AI" does not compute.

Sounds like an oxymoron to me.

And also, as others have already noted: what the heck is an AI factory? With antennas?

> AI Factories leverage the supercomputing capacity of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking to develop trustworthy cutting-edge _generative AI models_.

Emphasis mine.

What a way to say “we are gonna burn your resources”. I cannot even attribute this to incompetence anymore, it’s pure malice on your part at this point.

"Citizens get better public services, from healthcare to security. "

No, that's what we would get if you'd invest there instead. 🤦

Looks to me as if you copied & pasted this straight out of the propaganda pamphlets of the AI tech bros who are determined to strip us off our freedom, rights and money, further fueling the climate crisis while they are at it.

Shame- and reckless.

#fightfascistseverywhere

"Citizens get better public services, from healthcare to security."

Translation : We are going to train AI on your intimate health data without your consent

G R E A T!

Just after Deutsche Bank and Bank of England warned about an AI bubble we're investing gazillions...

F... that I didn't get a chance to setup a startup, write some science fiction presentation and also get a warm rain....

What a disaster. LLM data centres will kill the planet with their environmental cost with energy and water use and component high turnover.

You all laughed at the UK when they voted for Brexit (rightly so) but this investment in the LLM craze is batshit crazy. You are going to bankrupt EU countries when people realise LLMs are very expensive and do a terrible job at what computer illiterate people like your ministers are tasking them to do. There is going to be an AI bubble!!!