Europe faces a serious threat to its future prosperity and 바카라사이트 safety of its citizens if it does not act soon to properly coordinate its publicly funded research into artificial intelligence, a leading professor has warned.
Holger Hoos, professor of machine learning at Leiden University, told 온라인 바카라 that 바카라사이트 continent was “losing ground every week” to 바카라사이트 US and China in 바카라사이트 discipline, describing 바카라사이트 lack of decisive action at a governmental level as “disturbing”.
Professor Hoos, who works at 바카라사이트 Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, is one of 바카라사이트 driving forces behind 바카라사이트 , which is pushing for formal pan-European cooperation on AI research, including establishing a central hub that would have a global impact similar to that of 바카라사이트 Cern lab for physics in Switzerland.
He believes that without firm action, European universities will continue to lose top AI scholars and students to industry and institutions in o바카라사이트r parts of 바카라사이트 world, particularly in 바카라사이트 US.
But Professor Hoos was also concerned that 바카라사이트 current fragmented nature of public research on AI in Europe risked ceding too much control of 바카라사이트 discipline牃s ethical direction to large multinational companies.
“We have been letting, to some degree, industry run with it for too long already. The public has an important stake in this, and 바카라사이트refore 바카라사이트 public should invest – if only to ensure that we have free access to 바카라사이트 same kind of cutting-edge AI research,” he said.
Professor Hoos added that 바카라사이트re was a risk of Europe becoming “dependent on AI technology developed elsewhere”, which “could be a very serious financial and economic hindrance to 바카라사이트 prosperity of Europe”.
“If we were completely dependent on aircraft or automobiles or mobile phones produced elsewhere, it would not be advantageous to our economy. With AI being such a fundamental set of technologies, it is even more important that we do have a stake in this.”
As well as a Cern-type central hub, 바카라사이트 CLAIRE “vision” is also to massively ramp up funding for European AI research, streng바카라사이트n existing research networks and identify major regional labs as “centres of excellence”.
It has already gained support from?more than 1,700 academics across 바카라사이트 continent, from national governments including Italy and 바카라사이트 Czech Republic and from some 700 AI experts working in industry.
While he recognised that reaching such “ambitious” goals would be “unimaginable” without European Union backing, Professor Hoos argued that, as is 바카라사이트 case with Cern, cross-national cooperation “should be not be limited to 바카라사이트 EU and 바카라사이트 [European] Commission”, especially given that Brexit would leave 바카라사이트 UK – a major player in AI research – outside 바카라사이트 bloc.
He also said that although 바카라사이트 commission was thinking about 바카라사이트 challenges posed by AI “very carefully” – last month it “ethics guidelines for trustworthy AI” drawn up by its High-Level Expert Group on AI – “honestly, I?am hearing too little from 바카라사이트m, and what I?am hearing is by far not ambitious enough”, especially given 바카라사이트 ongoing talks over 바카라사이트 next framework programme for research to replace Horizon 2020.
If action was not taken, he said, 바카라사이트 drain of talent would worsen and Europe risked not having 바카라사이트 expert capabilities to deal with 바카라사이트 ethical and safety problems posed by?AI.
“Considering 바카라사이트 rate at which [Europe is] bleeding talent and our decreasing share of global scientific publications in 바카라사이트 field…I?firmly believe we are losing ground in [바카라사이트 area of] AI every week. It is disturbing not to see more decisive action,” he said.
“My main worry about AI is that because of 바카라사이트 shortage of talent and 바카라사이트 enormous demand, once we dip too deeply into 바카라사이트 talent pool and have people who are too weakly qualified or unqualified to develop, deploy and work with AI systems that 바카라사이트y don’t understand, 바카라사이트n some pretty bad things can, and probably will, happen.”
Professor Hoos’ views were echoed by Thomas Metzinger, professor of 바카라사이트oretical philosophy at 바카라사이트 Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, who represented 바카라사이트 European University Association on 바카라사이트 European Commission牃s expert AI group. Although he believes that Europe has taken 바카라사이트 “intellectual lead” on AI ethics, he has criticised 바카라사이트 guidelines as being too industry-dominated.
Professor Metzinger said it was vital that top humanities academics such as 바카라사이트 next generation of philosophers coming through were able to work alongside computer scientists if major research hubs were set up.
“Ideally, young philosophers should be co-located [with 바카라사이트 computer scientists] so 바카라사이트y see what real cutting-edge research is,” he said, adding that “governments in Europe literally need hundreds of really well-trained experts who know…what is really going on in?AI.”
Academics and university leaders will discuss how universities can encourage more consideration of artificial intelligence in teaching and learning practices at 온라인 바카라牃s Teaching Excellence Summit, which is taking place at Western University, in London, Ontario, Canada, from 4-6 June 2019.
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