except CERN actually does a lot of things backwards in terms of technology (partly due to our unique needs for hardware, but absolutely no excuse for software).

except CERN actually does a lot of things backwards in terms of technology (partly due to our unique needs for hardware, but absolutely no excuse for software). If what CERN is doing has even the remotest real-world application, CERN would have looked much less world-leading than it is today. European treaty is what made CERN viable -- because otherwise it's very hard to fund ultra long-term, almost no return projects. AI is the opposite of that and you probably don't want to have a CERN: plenty of $ flowing into AI project without government intervention && you don't want the slowness of CERN.