Josko Paro

Croatian Ambassador

[Big Brain AI @realBigBrainAI]

Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, offers a sobering view: The biggest technological shift in human history is happening, and almost no one is talking about it.

Schmidt opens with a startling industry prediction:

"We believe as an industry that in the next one year the vast majority of programmers will be replaced by AI programmers. We also believe that within one year you will have graduate level mathematicians that are at the tippy top of graduate math programs."

He explains why this matters so much. Programming and math aren't just two fields among many:

"Programming plus math are the basis of sort of our whole digital world."

And the AI labs are already using AI to build better AI:

"The research groups in OpenAI and anthropic and so forth… around 10 or 20% of the code that they're developing in their research programs is being generated by the computer. That's called recursive self-improvement."

@ericschmidt then lays out the timeline most people haven't grasped:

"Within 3 to 5 years we'll have what is called general intelligence AGI which can be defined as a system that is as smart as the smartest mathematician physicist artist writer thinker politician."

He gives this belief system a name:

"I call this by the way the San Francisco consensus because everyone who believes this is in San Francisco it may be the water."

But the truly unsettling part comes next.

Once AI starts improving itself, humans become optional to the process:

"The computers are now doing self-improvement… they don't have to listen to us anymore. We call that super intelligence or ASI… computers that are smarter than the sum of humans. The San Francisco consensus is this occurs within six years."

And here's where Schmidt sounds the alarm. The conversation isn't keeping pace with the technology:

"This path is not understood in our society. There's no language for what happens with the arrival of this. This is happening faster than our human that our society, our democracy, our laws will address."

His closing thought captures why this matters:

"That's why it's underhyped. People do not understand what happens when you have intelligence at this level which is largely free."

[EPP @EPP]

Yesterday was Prime Minister @AndrejPlenkovic’s first #EPPSummit since Croatia joined Schengen and the Eurozone. Here's what he had to say.

[ESM @ESM_Press]

Today Croatia joins the ESM family.

Dobrodošli Hrvatska! 🇭🇷

#ESMeuro

[Croatia in the EU @CroatiaInEU]

Special night at Bridges Film Days in #Bozar - Croatian talent shone with screening of Safe Place, multi-award winning debut by J. Lerotić. 🇭🇷Ambassadors pleased to attend & share their impressions. Congratulations to director & excellent cast on this powerful, emotional journey.

[Paschal Donohoe @Paschald]

In Brussels today for the first #Eurogroup of the year. As our euro family gets bigger, we will be welcoming Croatia as our 20th member.
We will also discuss the economic outlook, budgetary coordination and we will be issuing a statement on the #digitaleuro project.

[ESM @ESM_Press]

First #Eurogroup family photo of 2023, celebrating Croatia joining the euro area. Welcome Croatia!

#EUROinCroatia

[🇧🇪 Belgium MFA @BelgiumMFA]

🇭🇷🇪🇺 Congratulations, Croatia! Čestitamo!

On New Year's Day, Croatia became the 20th member of the eurozone and the 27th member of the Schengen area.

[Alexander Stubb @alexstubb]

Testing a hypothesis:

Easier to be PM in a crisis, especially when the threat is external.

More difficult to lead structural change, when threat essentially internal.

In the former a majority wants you to succeed.

In the latter a majority wants you to fail.

Thoughts?

[Paula Letunic @paulaletunic]

Croatian 2 #euro coin features a map of 🇭🇷.
The edge of the coin is inscribed with lines from Ode to Freedom by Ivan Gundulić. The letters read "O lijepa, o draga, o slatka slobodo" which means "Oh beautiful, oh dear, oh sweet freedom".

[Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen]

Dear @AndrejPlenkovic, what a great success for the people of Croatia.

To join the euro and Schengen communities, just 10 years after you joined the EU.

I know how hard you worked for this day to come.

Hrvatska je voljena članica europske obitelji.

[Valdis Dombrovskis @VDombrovskis]

A historic day for Croatia – Čestitamo!
Croatia becomes the 20th country to join💶 area. AND it also joins Schengen zone 👏👏
These achievements mark Croatia’s full integration into the European Union.
All done in just under a decade from its EU accession.
#EUROinCroatia
📽️ -

[La Croatie en France @CroatieEnFrance]

« Dragi hrvatski prijatelji, dobro došli u euro! »

Merci au Président @EmmanuelMacron pour ses vœux à l’occasion de l’entrée de la Croatie dans la zone euro 🇭🇷🇪🇺🇫🇷

Vidéo: @hrtvijesti

[EU Home Affairs @EUHomeAffairs]

🇭🇷 Dobrodošli! Croatia joins the #SchengenEU Area.

Croatia’s accession to Schengen responds to a European promise and a legitimate expectation. We hope that Bulgaria 🇧🇬 and Romania 🇷🇴 can also soon follow in their footsteps.

🗞️ Details: https://t.co/lpLSIIOtLy

[Christine Lagarde @Lagarde]

I’m delighted to welcome Croatia as the 20th member of the euro area! My compliments to the Croatian central bank @HNB_HR and Governor Boris Vujčić on all the hard work to prepare for the adoption of the euro. It’s a fine start to 2023.

[Marko Milić @HrMarkom]

Historical day!
#Schengen 🇭🇷🇪🇺

[Croatia in the EU @CroatiaInEU]

Happy New Year - and a very special day for #Croatia! 🎉

Today we proudly became the 20th member of #euro area and the 27th member of #Schengen area!

In our 10th year of EU membership, Croatia is now part of the closest EU integration benefiting our citizens & economy.

[Morena Zagar @ZagarMorena]

🇭�� #Croatia again in the semifinals of the #FIFAWorldCup !!!🥳
Congratulations #Vatreni ❤️‍🔥! Great match! Well done! Proud of you all!

[Marko Milić @HrMarkom]

Tense moments: 🇭🇷🇧🇷1-1
#penalty
#EUMED9

[EU2022_CZ @EU2022_CZ]

👮 #JHA Home Affairs | 👏👏👏 The #Schengen area is growing for the first time in more than a decade thanks to #EU2022CZ. Ministers approved #Croatia's membership as of 1 January 2023!

[Dragan B. Perovic @d_b_perovic]

počitanijem ostajem
Vaše Banske Svjetlosti
predani sluga"
Njegoš je uputio i pisma Bokeljima i Dubrovčanima, vezano za Bana i događaje oko 1848. godine. To ćemo postaviti neki drugi put 😊