Europe’s AI delusion – POLITICO

With 700 or 800 million Chinese internet users and fewer data protection rules, China is as rich in data as the Gulf States are in oil... Chinese commentators have embraced the idea of a coming singularity... AI development will be conducted by AI itself, creating exponential feedback ... the human mind will be unable to keep pace with robotized warfare...
a draft of the AI strategy the European Commission will publish on April 24... has almost nothing to do with reality... the people... too novice to produce anything better... the new strategy is fully defensive... 14-page document, only two pages are devoted to ways of boosting Europe’s AI capacity... a financing gap of $90 billion a year ... Commission proposes to mobilize $50 million...
the EU “can position itself as a leader in the international reflection on AI.” Let others lead on AI. The EU will be able to reflect on it better than anyone else.