[Stromgren]

Why _too_ late? Late, yes, but you’re implying that some line was crossed.

[sajithdilshan]

Yes, the time to take action has been 10 years ago. In order to catch up with US and China, EU would have to accelerate assuming US and China would stagnate(which is not the case). At current rate EU would always be catching up. I would love to hear if you can think of any plan on how EU can overtake US and China on AI advancement

[tzs]

Aren't you assuming that current approaches to AI won't plateau?

There's only so far you can push things before you need breakthroughs that give new approaches and when that happens it is often a new playing field.

[KetoManx64]

Motors and cars in general have plateud for decades now, yet I don't see any new car manufacturers springing up in the EU.

[tzs]

I don't see how that is relevant since they already have a large number of major car manufacturers.

The person I was replying to was asserting the the EU could never approach China and US levels in AI even if they made a major effort to do so because by starting N years later they would always be N years behind.

But that is only true, it seems to me, for things that do not plateau. For things that plateau those who start N years late catch up to the leaders N years after the leaders hit the plateau.

ICE cars plateaued a long time ago, and so the EU, the US, and China are all about the same level. They might concentrate more on different market segments, but technologically they all pretty much equally capable.