Germany plans AI offensive to catch up on key technologies, document shows
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Germany wants to ramp up its use of artificial intelligence by the end of the decade to support Europe's largest economy and compete on the world stage in key technologies, a document seen by Reuters showed on Tuesday."With an AI offensive, we want to generate 10% of our economic output based on AI by 2030 and make AI an important tool in central fields of research," a section of the ministry's draft strategy said.The German cabinet is expected to pass the strategy before the end of the month, setting ambitious targets to catch up with the United States and China on AI.The document sets out targets for bids to construct large-scale processing centres in the European Union: The government wants to coordinate its applications with industry, experts and federal states by the end of the year.The European Commission has allocated 20 billion euros ($23 billion) in EU funding for the construction of AI 'gigafactories'.The German strategy also sets out goals to ramp up quantum computing technology, with two "error-corrected quantum computers" to be created by 2030 and made available to users, the document said.
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