French President Emmanuel Macron announces €100 billion investments in AI
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But outside of TSMC it looks like just Samsung competing in the space, as you said Intel miles behind and AMD sold off all it’s fabs
Not sure how it is going, but Chinese are also pouring a ton of money into bleeding edge class processes by using an alternative technology than ASML (for obvious reasons). Will try to find the link somebody posted.
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I'd certainly hope for RISC-V. Perhaps now that we have a little bit more of an incentive, we will make some progress.
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Looks like it is comparable to the US Stargate announcement, the money is coming from private companies and going into private investment, which is amazing, I regret not including this in the original post:
Meanwhile, the French financing will include commitments from the United Arab Emirates, American and Canadian investments funds and French companies like telecommunications firms Iliad and Orange, and aerospace and defense group Thales
A few days before France’s AI Action Summit, which kicked off on Monday, the UAE said it would invest between 30 billion euros and 50 billion euros in the construction of a one-gigawatt AI data center in France as part of a campus focused on the technology’s development.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/10/frances-answer-to-stargate-macron-announces-ai-investment.html
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I know it can't take my job because I tried to make it do my job. Spoiler, it can't. And that's because most jobs aren't doing things that have been done so often that Claude has an example in its training data set. If your job is that basic then yes, an AI will take it from you. Most of the programming job is actually solving a problem within the context of the codebase, not the coding itself. I am working with old and archaic technology from the 60s to the 90s and let me tell you, using the official doc is way more factual than asking any AI model about information because it will start spewing bullshit after the second prompt
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A lot of comments in that YouTube thread for Devin are not positive.
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For a company, the choice are today: AWS or Microsoft. I would prefer an EU version (of being spied). It was pitched as the next big step, like this IA initiative today... Still waiting...
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That is why Europe also has to be on the forefront of wellfair and social protection : there is a lot less risk into innovating if losing your job is less of an issue and if it preserves your ability to spend thus avoiding a hard recession.
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That's something EU countries are better at than the US and on which it should capitalise
What does that look like?
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In France, where I live, good unemployement (keeping arround 80% of your previous revenues during a year or two) and health benefits (100% coverage if you have a, relatively cheap, additional individual insurance). Which has the added benefit of keeping medecine prices pretty low (ie insulin is free for diabetics here).
It should, and could, be even better if they trusted beneficiaries a bit more, and were not constantly harrasing them into accepting shity jobs.
When you earn unemployement benefits, you still pay taxes and the rest of the money you spend keeps the national economy running (which, in turn, also turn in taxes) so financing it isn't necessarely an issue (even without taxing the 10% wealthiest who manage to mostly avoid it and thus, don't contribute. While their wealth doubled in the last 20 years, taking inflation into account).
The constant political fight arround those spendings is mostly about the morality of "assisting" unemployed and poor families not an economical balance matter.
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That I know, I live in Belgium.
I wonder what successful capitalisation of that would look like?
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Or just 10 billion into the school system? Please? Anything?
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Serious question and not trying to be funny, but how is AI going to solve climate change? We already know the answer, but the world is too greedy to do anything about it. As a matter of fact, AI will worsen climate change since more power is needed for it to write couple of sentences.
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One way would be to higher EU members' financial contribution to it's budget in proportion to their lack of wellfairness.
I also frequently dream of tariffs on extra-EU imports on the same criteria, thus also preventing so called "social dumping", modern slavery and exploitation.
Which in turn would make our own production more competitive and enabming better salaries overall.Of course, a lot of goods would get more expensive, but we would finaly pay a fair price (rewarding those who until now payed with their health/liberty/life for those low prices).
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both have no clue.
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What a coincidence, I use it to learn German and it makes mistakes.
I also use it for programming and with anything more complicated it makes mistakes.
And about the command creation, it is laughable to waste this kind of energy on this easy of a task.
I do not say it should be perfect, but if I spend more time debugging it's code than it would take to write my own.
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make our own production more competitive and enable better salaries overall.
That's the topic of this post: due to it's central steering EU became technologically (and in a few decades economically) irrelevant. It doesn't know how to make 21st century things. Tarrifs don't help with that problem. Nor does a national social security system. The latter does make sure that everyone's quality of life degrades about equally fast.
