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Eric Schmidt: ‘Europe doesn’t have an AI strategy. If it doesn’t invest heavily, it will end up using Chinese models’ (english.elpais.com)
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Disclaimer: I don't particularly like Eric Shmidt. He is shady as fuck.

https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/

But he is also smart as fuck and a huge donor to science, including european science.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schmidt

This isn't a rich dumbass like Trump. It's always interesting to listen to him.

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[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

These people are so desperately transparent; "Oh no, better buy my product before stuff happens. Pls just buy my shit."

I think it would be best for Europe to just wait for the bubble to pop and save themselves from spending millions on useless shit that doesn't even work that well

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Basic sales tactic: create a false sense of urgency.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 2 points 2 days ago

Ah, it's the billionaire equivalent from those "only one left in stock" and "this offers expires in 00:05:00" things.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 3 points 2 days ago

To be fair to the lad, he didn't peddle his wares. He just says if there isn't a European strategy to develop their own models it is very likely that Europe would run on Chinese made ones that are more open source, whereas American ones become increasingly closed source and expensive to license. Now, that's his prediction and I don't really believe him. But this article at least doesn't make it seem he wrapped his doom and gloom prediction in a Gemini sales pitch.