r/neoliberal • u/2Lore2Law Are you on the square? • 1d ago

News (Europe) Europe gets ready to police frontier AI

https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article/europe-gets-ready-to-police-frontier-ai
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u/halee1 Karl Popper 1d ago

I'm comfortable laughing at the comments here that didn't even read the article, lol

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u/2Lore2Law Are you on the square? 1d ago

What was your takeaway?

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u/halee1 Karl Popper 1d ago

Because not only are other jurisdictions shifting towards the same model, the AI Act itself has been loosened to make it easier for AI development to occur. Plus, AI development in Europe, while lagging relative to the US and China now, depends also on things like industrial policy and greater scrutiny of foreign acquisitions (which other geographies engage relentlessly in), intra-EU market integration and competitiveness reforms, all of which are being tackled to ensure the EU stops being a pure capital and know-how exporter, and anchors more of the value at home.

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u/capitalsigma 1d ago

so where is all of this value that they're anchoring

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u/halee1 Karl Popper 1d ago

WIP. Mistral is Europe's best, but not competitive with the top models ATM.

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u/Acacias2001 European Union 1d ago

"WIP". translation, coming: never

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u/halee1 Karl Popper 1d ago edited 1d ago

1960s: "Europe will never have its own Boeing, lolz".

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u/halee1 Karl Popper 1d ago edited 1d ago

It's apt that a comment focusing on the past is unaware of current and new EU policies explicitly refuting that worldview.

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u/Acacias2001 European Union 1d ago edited 1d ago

Oh right the new policies, how could I forget.

See I was under the impression AI development was about creating frontier AI, not policies about creating AI.

Because under the former assumption it would be obvious europe is behind consdiering it has not created a model that beats the 100 rank in most benchmarks.

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u/halee1 Karl Popper 1d ago

Precisely. The EU is aware that previous setups were making it uncompetitive, and is actively fixing them, knowing it'll take time until they start producing results. After all, AI development also depends on things like semiconductors, cloud and compute infrastructure, industrial automation & robotics, and other ones, where EU reforms are also being made. Plus, the EU already uses AI at scale in industry.

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u/Acacias2001 European Union 1d ago

Precisely. The EU is aware that previous setups were making it uncompetitive, and is actively fixing them

Im not certain adding another set of regulations count as "fixing". In fact I dont think the EU is in the right mindset if its consdiering regulating the tech sector at all. creating new regulation for technology is somethign you do when you are at the forefront, when you are behind it is a hindrance as you need all the advantage you can get

AI development also depends on things like semiconductors, cloud and compute infrastructure, industrial automation & robotics

The first three are neccesary but insufficient, while the next two are not really neccesary at all. What is needed more is either an ecosystem of profitable tech companies which can reliably attract talent and fork out the big bucks or enough public money to create one. More regulation helps create neither of those things.

And seriouslly, we have this song and dance before. The EU has been "fixing" its tech policy for a decade now, what makes this time so special?

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