Can General-Purpose Robots Reignite the Economies of Germany and Japan?
2025-01-23
This article examines the relative decline of Germany and Japan's economies compared to the US and China since 1995. Jürgen Schmidhuber argues that AI-driven, general-purpose robots may be the key to reversing this trend. He recounts his early research at the Technical University of Munich, highlighting the origins of crucial AI technologies like LSTM and Transformers, and points to Germany's missed opportunities in AI development due to insufficient investment and brain drain. Schmidhuber calls for a national project in Germany to build general-purpose robots capable of performing jobs humans dislike, solving workforce shortages and revitalizing the economy.
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