The investor looks impatiently at Silicon Valley, the research minister knows the limits of Berlin’s bureaucracy.
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Berlin, Dusseldorf, San Francisco There are 9,000 kilometers between Bettina Stark-Watzinger and Cyriac Roeding, the FDP politician is connected from an office in her ministry, while the investor is sitting in an attic in San Francisco. The topic of artificial intelligence (AI) connects them, but the two come from two different worlds.
Roeding watches impatiently as Silicon Valley announces breakthrough advances in AI every week while Germany lags behind. Stark-Watzinger, on the other hand, knows what German politics can and cannot do; she knows the limits of Berlin’s bureaucracy.
In the Handelsblatt they ask themselves how and whether Germany can still catch up in the technology race.
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