Video Abstract
Europe has so far remained on the margins of the digital revolution. The same European marginality also appears in the Artificial Intelligence era, evidenced by the gap in investment, in the creation of companies and products, and in the establishment of server farms needed to power it. At this early stage of generative AI, the conflict between the Americans and Chinese is fast leading to an oversupply of basic services, including free and open source, inflated by a financial bubble and designed to grab billions of users. This fierce competition is fast turning artificial intelligence into a low-cost commodity made available by multiple players. A new phase is opening up, in which the availability of LLM (Large Language Model: a computer program that can recognize, interpret and generate text) shifts the challenge forward, to the countless application domains. It is in this new phase that the old continent can play a key role, strong in its cultural and industrial diversity. The test awaiting Europe today is the need to develop applications that increase the productivity of economic sectors, which is necessary to overcome the demographic, technological and geopolitical challenges looming in the coming years-a test that could perhaps be overcome by a large number of operational vertical artificial intelligences designed on the ground, in Europe’s innumerable economic clusters, rather than by a monolithic general artificial intelligence.
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