>  MP> The European Union has announced 750 million in investment to establish
>  MP> AI supercomputers across seven sites on the continent.

> There are a lot of things that I don't understand about that.

> Why does it cost money to develop AI? The guy who made the BBS door game
> called "AI" (for example) just needed an old 90s computer and a copy of
> Borland Turbo C++. And nobody paid him a penny.

> Is AI just a joke that elites are using to extort money from taxpayers?

Several companies are looking into AI as a way to augment (or replace) human
jobs.  Reading the article, it sounds like the EU is worried about falling
behind in technology (it mentions taking on US tech "giants" -- I would
guess companies like Microsoft, Google, etc.), and also wants a way to
augment/automate jobs in their healthcare and financial sectors.

I worry that, over time, decision makers will become too reliant on AI and
it won't question enough the decisions it makes.  Two or three years back,
Louisville hired a company to change their school bus routes to make fewer
of them.  That company used AI modeling.  The end result looked good on
paper but didn't take into account that school buses carry a lot of little
humans (with minds of their own), and also apparently didn't take into
account enough the city's traffic patterns.

The end result was a disaster.  After one day of school, they had to close
school for a week while human decision makers figured out how to fix the
mess.


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