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.

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Re:First things first

[SuperKendall]

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.

That's an exceptionally stupid argument

[SuperKendall]

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.