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President's Most Senior Technology Advisor Says the White House is Quietly Pursuing an Aggressive AI Plan (technologyreview.com)
Speaking at a conference held at MIT, Donald Trump's chief technology advisor, Michael Kratsios, said this week that the U.S. government would release any data that might help fuel AI research in the United States, although he didn't specify immediately what kind of data would be released or who would be eligible to receive the information. From a report: Kratsios, who is deputy assistant to the president and deputy US chief technology officer, said the government is looking for ways to open up federal data to AI researchers. "Anything that we can do to unlock government data, we're committed to," Kratsios told MIT Technology Review. "We'd love to hear from any academic that has any insights." Data has been a key factor behind recent advances in artificial intelligence. For example, better voice recognition and image processing have been contingent on the availability of huge quantities of training data. The government has access to large amounts of data, and it's possible that it could be used to train innovative algorithms to do new things. "Anything we can do to figure that out, we will work very hard on," Kratsios added.
The Trump administration has faced criticism for a more laissez-faire approach to artificial intelligence than many other countries have taken. Kratsios argued that the White House is quietly pushing an aggressive policy, pointing to examples of research projects that have received federal funding. When asked about the president's interest in artificial intelligence, Kratsios said, "The White House has prioritized AI, and he obviously runs the White House."
The Trump administration has faced criticism for a more laissez-faire approach to artificial intelligence than many other countries have taken. Kratsios argued that the White House is quietly pushing an aggressive policy, pointing to examples of research projects that have received federal funding. When asked about the president's interest in artificial intelligence, Kratsios said, "The White House has prioritized AI, and he obviously runs the White House."
Wants to turn over the reins ASAP
Well, at least it's Al Plan and not Al Qaeda.
Walkawalkawalka!
Well, they perfected the first half.
Table-ized A.I.
Trump Headroom
...at Trump then maybe the White House "Artificial Intelligence plan" will fall quiet.
Right now, their AI is not quiet at all...
Quetly persuing it?
To me that reads as if POTUS is either not aware or they try to do it behinds his back. Otherwise he would be yellling how great the AI would be. It will be a great AI, it will be the best AI. You'll see!
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Hillary planned to shut down all AI research and give it to China Wall Street!!!
I mean, think how fast the AI can ramp up if it gets trained on all the illegally monitored phone calls, emails, texts and mic-enabled (without the user's permission) recordings they've got stored away.
The big data era seems to have gotten away from us. I really have to wonder who is actually happy about all of our data being collected, filtered, pilfered and ransacked for value other than a few guys that already have more money than they know what to do with.
this White House is likely to see would be artificial. They are certainly lacking in the real kind.
and artificial intelligence seem to go hand in hand
Unless Trump is personally checking code into the repos, that means he's an imbecile!!
I was hoping Trump wouldn't get seduced by governmental fads. AI right now is a 4 decade old technology, which is currently a fad. Universities have been teaching Neural Networks during the 80s, 90s, 00s, and today. It's nothing new.
Trump needs to slap big tarrifs on AI to save jobs.
Actual intelligence would be welcome change.
In other words, the tech industry has convinced us to giving them even more taxpayer money based on false promises of "AI".
We must not allow an AI gap!
US-based company - check
AI - check
Nazi - check
Sexbot - check
Should accomplish all of the administrations goals, right when they need a big win!
Line 'em up.
Take aim!
From the three-letter-agencies that brought you More Surveillance: Say "welcome!" to your new AI surveillance-data-processing overlords!
That's about where I think this is going. Since what they keep trotting out as 'AI' is shitty, that means the analysis will be wrong part of the time, and some innocent citizens will end up dropped in a blacksite oubliette and never heard from again.
"I could stand in the middle of fifth avenue and shoot someone, and I wouldn't lose any voters."
It's not in the White House that intelligence is lacking. It's in the collective brains of the morons who have actually voted for someone who thinks this about his electors, and says so openly and publicly.
To fix Trump, or just replace him?
Donald Trump is going to prison for treason, and his uneducated racist supporters can't do anything about.
Moscow Donald is no more able to pardon himself than he is able suck his own cock.
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Mod parent up. Trump isn't smart enough to understand what artificial intelligence actually is. Probably thinks it's Knight Rider, or the robot off Lost in Space.
That jackass is so incompetent I wouldn't bet on anything of note happening in AI over this.
He's incompetent at doing anything that is beneficial to this nation or its people. He is pretty competent at doing what is best for himself, and very competent at bullying and even destroying his opponents. Which is already extremely chilling, given the craven inaction of congress to hold him accountable or act as an effective check and balance to his numerous and ever-growing abuses of power. Which makes his administration's embrace of AI, particularly in the context of the surveillance state we already have, absolutely terrifying.
In the pursuit of pokemans.
Let me show you them.
Hey, I'm thinkin' here!
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
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"The Trump administration has faced criticism for a more laissez-faire approach to artificial intelligence..."
So, the R's are the pro-science / technology party now, and the D's are the luddites?
Hahahahaha! That's nothing in comparison to the look on your face when you shoot yourself in the foot, though! :)
Look, after a while, you realize he has no ideas, and 95 percent of what he says he'll do, he never does.
Now, China, they actually have a real AI program, with real funding, and real scientists.
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it's not "AI" in the sci-fi sense. It's Job Automation & data mining. Lots of money there. It's still Tax payers paying for basic research that companies will use for their personal profit (privatize the profits, socials the costs). It's especially funny because it's the tax payers paying to put themselves out of work with automation.
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Yes! The release of the petabytes of voice, video, etc. captured by the NSA, CIA, etc. worldwide would be awesome training data! Especially the relatively small portion that has been analyzed, professionally translated, etc. as it would have metadata added.
For robots anyway.
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No match for the president's natural stupidity!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
"sentient self-aware..." and "programmed to not cringe" are mutually incompatible.
All the current din about AI this or AI that has really been "agressive" publicity, and not enough authentic AI.
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Both his intellect and personality are quantifiable in currently existing cpu, memory, and storage capacity!
Now we know the true reason Trump became president: Working on his plans for digital immortality!
I'll never understand people who claim their opponent is stupid after losing to them.
Do none of them realize they're denigrating themselves in saying that?
The only answer I can find is that if they were smart enough to realize that, they might've been smart enough not to lose in the first place, but it's still amazing to see how no evidence can penetrate the bubble of ignorance.
Guess "NSA" can't start a subject line. Weird or spooky?
If he names the AI GW, then we need to worry.
A Trump Administration sponsored Artificial Intelligence? How would you tell?
Is this like their fake plans to defeat ISIS or the opioid epidemic? The stuff they make up for their dumb supporters to believe?
Let's hope the AI never gets to read Twitter, it might go haywire!
Unlock the classified data behind the 9/11 attack. Would show good faith.
Are they Quietly Pursuing an Aggressive AI Plan? Or quietly and aggressively pursuing an AI plan?
Given that you don't realize the smart people have ways of getting the not-so-smart to go along with them, it's clear which camp you're in.
President's Most Senior Technology Advisor Says the White House is Quietly Pursuing an Aggressive AI Plan
Translation: Trump threw a PC at an intern.