Presumably they only have empirical results and if so, wouldn't you need to train multiple successive models to even test such a hypothesis? Even then, it's not like an inductive proof. An improvement in one generation does not imply an improvement in the next (unless you define improvement to mean exactly that).
The problem with physics and chemistry is that you need simulations and those are often in themselves compute hungry. So the iteration loop will be slower.
Aye, I noticed that too, and I also noticed the bit about struggling car maker. It's a complete propaganda piece. But what else would you expect from the times of Israel
In a world where sedans have been replaced by SUVs, I don't see how the market would react positively to this. But then again, Lime scooters are paradoxically also a thing. I guess maybe it's a matter of marketing?
There are many cities in the US where renting a scooter to travel a couple miles is as fast as (often faster than) waiting for and riding in a car, and costs perhaps a third as much. But I can't speak for whether this solar car is anything other than hype; those are different matters.
Electric scooters are a walking enhancer in an urban area. Now you can go 20kph in a city and easily park your vehicle. They're also super cheap to own and operate (or borrow one when needed). That's a totally different animal than a $40k subcompact trike car that requires an actual paid parking spot
Hmm, I think you provide a compelling narrative. However I'm not very convinced.
I think AI is a good example. EU wide there are plenty of public HPC centers and in 2020 we had (relative to the world) plenty of compute. In other words, we had the tech, we had the compute, and we had the know how. And yet we don't really have a competitive AI scene in Europe. There were some very small projects launched to try to train LLMs. All of them were no more than learning exercises.
Because individual EU states now have no choice. The alternative is to accept being a contested beach ball squeezed between the US and China, and with other regional powers taking advantage.
The EU had already lost the initial race in HPC and AI by 2011-16 when EU institutions and state-level institutions failed to support the kind of public-private collaboration that was happening contemporarily in the US and China. I remember noticing on visits how EU nationals were often working on or closely with the Guangzhou Supercomputing Center in large part because capital that could monetize fundamental research dried up due to the Eurozone crisis.
Similarly in Quantum, barely 15 years ago, a large portion of China's current leading quantum researchers like Pan Jianwei were still working closely with European researchers like Anton Zellinger at institutions like Wien, Geneva, INRIA, and the Max Planck Institutes to close knowledge gaps that remained. While the gap has now been reversed, it can be managed because having some sovereign capabilities at least helps reduce the risk of being at the mercy of export controls.
Basically, the EU and individual EU states have one last chance to recapture the frontier lest it's gone.
True, but what they do is they invest in fundamental research and then expect magic to happen and that research to lead to economic growth. Unfortunately the wizards that cast the spells live in the US, not Europe.
Citation needed.
And the problem isn't that Europe doesn't have its own wizards, it's that they don't have the mana market to turn those spell ideas into reality.
EU also recently introduced a 3 euro fee on all packages from China. Maybe well intentioned but it puts a huge markup, when a thinker wants to buy a very specific 0.05 euro spring from AliExpress or something along those lines.
It's an interesting topic, but the article is completely AI generated, which isn't surprising considering the startup, but still, if you don't even go over the output what's the point?
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