Re:Can the EU become another AI superpower?
by rcarmo on Sunday September 23, 2018 @04:04AM
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I see this as unlikely in the same way that having the next Facebook in the EU is unlikely. Companies in Europe tend to bet more on B2B instead of B2C, which leads to a lot of data siloing and many attempts at building ML models with tightly focused legacy data within a specific domain.
The article doesn’t make a very clear distinction between academic and business AI, but I can’t see any inherent advantages for the EU in an academic perspective either-there are fields of AI that are under-represented in current consumer tech, but... I’m skeptical.
(I live in the EU and work in AI and ML-there is so much low-hanging fruit in terms of just making companies aware of what they can do that I seldom have deep enough engagements to step outside prepackaged approaches)
The article doesn’t make a very clear distinction between academic and business AI, but I can’t see any inherent advantages for the EU in an academic perspective either-there are fields of AI that are under-represented in current consumer tech, but... I’m skeptical.
(I live in the EU and work in AI and ML-there is so much low-hanging fruit in terms of just making companies aware of what they can do that I seldom have deep enough engagements to step outside prepackaged approaches)