Madrid, Dec 2 (AFP/APP): Spain is to invest 600 million euros (725 million dollars) in developing artificial intelligence over the next two years as part of plans to transform its national economy, the premier said Wednesday.
The programme would run from 2021 to 2023, starting with an initial injection of 330 million euros, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said. Developing artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the main objectives of Spain’s digital transformation programme which was announced in July and is part of a plan to transform the Spanish economy.
Sanchez said the aim of the government’s AI strategy was to “align Spain with the leading countries involved in the study and use of reliable artificial intelligence for economic and social development as a tool for economic modernisation”.
The idea was “to generate an environment of trust with respect to the development of an artificial intelligence that would be inclusive and sustainable and have the public at its heart”, a government statement added. The public investment will be further boosted by a contribution from Spain’s Next Tech fund to encourage entrepreneurship in digital technology.
The public-private initiative will aim to mobilise private funding worth 3.3 billion euros that will be ploughed into AI and the digital economy, Sanchez added.
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