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'Europe must ban American Big Tech and create a European Silicon Valley' (www.tilburguniversity.edu)
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[โ€“] plyth@feddit.org -3 points 1 day ago

That choice was made years ago. This is like native Americans realizing that they have to invent rifles.

We have a lot of expertise in the field of technology and the building of this kind of systems, so that is not the problem.

Citation needed. Who has the knowledge to create social networks or neural networks in Europe? Who is going to make them popular?

Lemmy would be promoted much more if people cared about creating European data, with a neccessary debate about copy rights.

The Netherlands has ASML that could produce the chips needed for AI.

That's one part of the process. Others can buy ASML machines but only TSMC has the best processes to build the most efficient chips and yet again other companies know how to design those chips.

This is USSR playing catch-up with Western digital technology all over again. It's a bit arrogant to think that Europe can do it simply by dedicating resources to it. Those in power have ignored those who knew what was coming. How are they going to know to whom they should listen now?