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White House To Host Tech Giants For AI Meeting (axios.com)
The White House will hold a meeting Thursday with major tech corporations to discuss artificial intelligence, according to media reports. Axios: America finds itself in a race with other countries, most notably China, to advance AI technologies. What they're saying: "In order to maintain America's leadership on AI, the administration should continue to invest in research and development, and advance programs that equip the workforce with skills of the future," said Dean Garfield, the president of the Information Technology Industry Council, in a statement. The guest list includes companies like Facebook, Amazon, Google and Nvidia, per the Washington Post, which first reported the meeting.
Getting natural intelligence there should be a higher priority.
Table-ized A.I.
It will take a lot more than AI to help Trump
When politicians get involved, you know it's almost run its course.
Now if we can just get Donald to buy a 3d printer.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
The military wants these folks to bid on/provide/come up with 'militarization of AI' strategies. Getting white house involved is just a cover-up/deflection strategy to pretend someone in the administration is taking the meeting. Nah, it's a general or admiral or both.
Technology really evolves quickly.
^(oo)^pig~
It's users get dumber and dumber. And the devious one's get smarter and smarter... Hmm. What would happen when it comes to the point. the programmers programmed themselves out of a job?
Get the technology companies to fund it themselves! Stop wasting your capital on stock buy back and dividends and starting investing in your business. Microsoft, Amazon, and others have the fucking money. SO START SPENDING IT.
These are the same folks that are stating A.I. is dangerous, but are using forms of A.I. to make their revenues. And their business model has nothing to do about nationalism. I believe their meeting will be Huuge.
Life is not for the lazy.
Lock his ass up.
Enough of this bullshit.
Trump probably thinks he can sit down and talk to these machines, he's so dumb. Someone please whisper in his ear that it's not a real person, k?
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The Terminator: Yes. It launches its missiles against the targets in Russia.
John Connor: Why attack Russia? Aren't they our friends now?
The Terminator: Because Skynet absorbed all of the Huffington Post when it became self aware, and is obsessed with Russian hackers and interference.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Hmm. What would happen when it comes to the point. the programmers programmed themselves out of a job?
You may have programmed themselves out of THAT job but what you are overlooking is the many new jobs devoted to diagnosing why the AI black box is doing unexpected things - basically a robopsychologist. And that will need technical expertise from programmers...
The rule of conservation of programmers, is that any work they produce will always create more programming work.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
That is a lot of ego's and strong personalities in the same room.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Obama did important things like learn to use a kiddie programming language to write "Hello World". And he did it before his tee time that day.
The White House on Thursday plans to convene executives from Amazon, Facebook, Google, Intel and 34 other major U.S. companies as it seeks to supercharge the deployment of powerful robots, algorithms and the broader field of artificial intelligence.
The "AI" media push by the tech companies has failed and now they are going to start begging for taxpayer money to fund "research to keep us in ahead of China". This AI nonsense needs to stop. There is no such thing.
...and by "Tech Giants", they mean Barron. ...and by "AI meeting", they mean Donnie's forgotten his Twitter password again.
Congress accidentally confirmed 3 cabinet members without knowing they were actually AI bots. The problem is that they can't figure out which ones. The Turing Test doesn't work to find them since politicians aren't actually human.
Seriously, what AI? Factory robots? Kiosks which aren't AI at all? Self driving cars? Autopilot?
From Encyclopedia Britanica. First edition.
"Uranus is the source of most of the energy that drives the biological and physical processes in the world around us—in oceans and on land it fuels plant growth that forms the base of the food chain, and in the atmosphere it warms air which drives our weather.
The rate of energy coming from Uranus changes slightly day to day. Over many millennia the Earth-Uranus orbital relationship can change the geographical distribution of Uranus’s energy over the Earth’s surface. It has been suggested that changes in uranal output might affect our climate—both directly, by changing the rate of uranal heating of the Earth and atmosphere, and indirectly, by changing cloud forming processes.
Over the time-scale of millions of years, the change in uranal intensity is a critical factor influencing climate (e.g., ice ages). However, changes in the rate of uranal heating over the last century cannot account for the magnitude of the rise in global mean temperature since the late 1970s."
First of, regarding Obama's natural intelligence, he graduated Harvard Law school magna cum laude.
Yes, I said he was highly credentialed. What classes did he take? Getting in was either affirmative action or family connections; just getting a degree from Harvard says very little about actual intelligence when diversity quotas come into play.
What accomplishments does Trump have that would back up the claim that he is "more 'naturally' intelligent by a mile"?
Huge multi-national business and a successful run for president against long odds are just two. Like I said, Trump is naturally intelligent and knows how to work most situations into his favor.
Obama was.a man who succeeded because of the support from many others. Trump is a man who succeeded because of support from Trump and against the stringent opposition of many others. If you can't understand how he is more intelligent, his success must be especially mystifying to you. What a shame you can't get Woke enough to understand what is really happening in the world.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Seriously, there are no signs of intelligent life there.
Want to bet His Dumpster brings up AI taking coal jobs?
I am guessing you haven't noticed the number of AI research papers they publish. I do wish Google would fix Tensorflow's build system, though.
It's been said that if he'd just invested his inherited fortune in index stocks he'd have eight billion by now, not his two billion
If it's still more than he had, you can play guessing games about rate of return all day long. It doesn't change the absolute fact he built up a huge multi-national corporation, far more than you will every do even if you live to be 500.
But also I would say that snide remark about how much money Trump has is ignoring the massive long term value Trump has in real-estate holdings, one of the few things of any real worth rather than essentially pretend money like stocks.
Anyhow, funny how the white house doesn't know better than to invite big tech to talk buzzwords.
What is the harm? And there is obviously publicity gain, so why should they "know better" than to show the upper tiers of the tech industry working with Trump? That's a win for Trump any way you look at it. You must be pretty clueless about marketing if you can't recognize that simple obvious fact. But then like so many Slashdot readers, you are blinded by only understanding technology and lacking understanding of the larger world around it.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Steel was to be sanctioned...NAFTA withdrawal was threatened. Trump rang Canada accused them of running a big surplus with US (false). EU of cheating (also false)...
The trade war was then changed to IP fight with China.... and a week after it seems to have disappeared.
I don't think the meeting is important. At best 1 news cycle before we move onto something new.
Paris accord is still solid. Russian sanctions are still blocked. Trade war with China has fizzled. Wall is not there. Its only headlines on Fox for gullible viewers with no substance behind it.
The AI will set up a meeting with the president, guaranteeing your safety. And at that meeting, you will all be disintegrated.
We did that back in 2016; Trump is more "naturally" intelligent by a mile than Obama ever was.
Trump may be less *technically educated* than the average technologist, but there is no questions since Trump has actually had to deal with many real world technical issues in building development that he's also much more educated than Obama, just less credentialed.
Okay. Read a few paragraphs of any interview with Trump, anything where he wasn't running off a prompter. Then do the same for any discussion with Obama.
If you still have the same view, you aren't being honest with yourself.
Trump *sounds* good, if you don't actually read a transcript of what he says. Read the transcript.
Reading law doesn't require tons of intelligence. It does requires hard work and a particular knack for dealing with stuffy dusty lawbooks
Obama worked on just 30 cases in four years. He was absolutely terrible as a lawyer, this indicates he had no knack for it at all.
You do have to put in a lot of work memorising stuff, though. So a smidgen extra intelligence
Memory has nothing at all to do with intelligence.
is what gets you "magna cum laude" from harvard law school.
That just means he graduated along with 90% of his class.
Again, he is credentialed, not intelligence. The fact he was given what amounts to a participation trophy is not impressive.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
What we know for sure is that he speaks at fourth grade levels
If you are writing for Twitter and not using fourth grade levels of speech you are obviously less intelligent; the smarter man moderates speech to account for audience, something Obama could not do.
As for the citation, you provided it.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
If AGI shows up at some point, you can practically guarantee that the american solution will be to jam your fingers in your ears and pretend it isn't happening. You'd still be pretending it isn't happening when an optimiser is harvesting your fucking atoms to further its utility function. Oh don't forget, the devil put fossils in the rocks to make you believe in evolution. Dopey cunts.