This is outstanding. But the story starts in the wrong place, far too late.
Europe "getting Al wrong" didn't start in 2020, or 2023. It started in 2000 and even earlier, through decades of European universities and research institutes not taking Al seriously as a critical domain for research.
It started when many European universities set up their computer science faculties on the wrong foundation in the 1970s and 1980s, by relegating software engineering to the back shelf. Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands did the best job of taking software seriously, but it wasn't enough to compensate for German French Spanish, Italian neglect of computer science, computing and IT adoption in industry.
My counter-intuitive advice is to get out of AI as quickly as possible. It's permanently unstable because it has nothing to do with thought, behavior, completion.
“We refute (based on empirical evidence) claims that humans use linguistic representations to think.” Ev Fedorenko Language Lab MIT 2024
And AI has everything to do with our prefrontal cortex's poor simulation capability. Words are not thought, neither are symbols. They're arbitrary. They exist in a netherworld that has nothing to do with our specific reality.
The continent that builds the analog supercomputer and patents it rules the future.
Thank you!
🤗👏 "We don’t accept that."
A thoughtful and timely piece. Thank you for challenging Europe to think bigger, act bolder, and take its future seriously in the age of AI.
Reposting my comments from LinkedIn:
This is outstanding. But the story starts in the wrong place, far too late.
Europe "getting Al wrong" didn't start in 2020, or 2023. It started in 2000 and even earlier, through decades of European universities and research institutes not taking Al seriously as a critical domain for research.
It started when many European universities set up their computer science faculties on the wrong foundation in the 1970s and 1980s, by relegating software engineering to the back shelf. Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands did the best job of taking software seriously, but it wasn't enough to compensate for German French Spanish, Italian neglect of computer science, computing and IT adoption in industry.
My counter-intuitive advice is to get out of AI as quickly as possible. It's permanently unstable because it has nothing to do with thought, behavior, completion.
“We refute (based on empirical evidence) claims that humans use linguistic representations to think.” Ev Fedorenko Language Lab MIT 2024
And AI has everything to do with our prefrontal cortex's poor simulation capability. Words are not thought, neither are symbols. They're arbitrary. They exist in a netherworld that has nothing to do with our specific reality.
The continent that builds the analog supercomputer and patents it rules the future.
https://substack.com/@eventperception/p-182707220