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U.S. Science Gap Fictional?
James Cho writes "There are more science and engineering students than ever, says one Newsweek journalist. Inflated counts of Chinese and Indian students have created the myth of the U.S. science gap. While no gap exists yet, an exodus of retiring U.S. scientists could create one." From the article: "...a country's capacity for scientific and commercial innovation does not correlate directly with its number of scientists and engineers. Hard work, imagination and business practices also matter."
Artificial intelligence has already been solved here in the United States, while the rest of the world is caching up.
AI algorithms have been released into the public domain and have come to the attention of AI wannabes all over the world by means of U.S. search engines.
An American book about artificial intelligence gives away the bleeding-edge American AI secrets to the rest of the world.
Singularity Scams, alas, are also an American invention recently on the rise and seeking victims to defraud of their money by playing on fears of unfriendly AI taking over the world.
AI Has Been Solved -- with a Theory of Mind (TOM) that is 1) extremely difficult for anyone but multidisciplinary experts to understand; and 2) all but impossible to implement in AI Mind software before we have massively parallel (maspar) computing hardware.
The Mentifex Theory of Mind is the long-awaited "solution to (the problem of) AI." Stand by for software solutions, and fall not prey to Singularity Scams.
Seriously, why do waitresses get paid more than particle physicists?
Because particle physicists won't bring me food.
They maybe know all sorts of stuff about particles, but that's not something people pay for at an individual level.
Democrats or Republicans. They are both taking us to the same place and they are not afraid of us anymore.