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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, they perfected the first half.
Table-ized A.I.
Trump Headroom
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.
this White House is likely to see would be artificial. They are certainly lacking in the real kind.
Unless Trump is personally checking code into the repos, that means he's an imbecile!!
In other words, the tech industry has convinced us to giving them even more taxpayer money based on false promises of "AI".
That isn't AI. Those are algorithms and have been around for many decades.
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 help write some of it.
It's complete bully.
"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?
Hey, I'm thinkin' here!
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
"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! :)
I agree. The should instead focus more on using more blockchain.
Aah, change is good. -- Rafiki
Yeah, but it ain't easy. -- Simba
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.
At least he isn't screaming "racist" every time someone disagrees with him. And he has not yet turned the DOJ, FBI, IRS and CIA into weapons to use against his political enemies. But, heh, you got some judges from the 9th circuit to block most of his moves, so you've got that. I mean, they all get overturned by the Supreme Court, but at least you can block him for a while. Right?
Aah, change is good. -- Rafiki
Yeah, but it ain't easy. -- Simba
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.
Spottswoode: Remember, there's is no I in Team America. I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E.: Yes, there is. Sarah: I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E. is down! Repeat, we have lost our I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.E.N.C.E.!
All the current din about AI this or AI that has really been "agressive" publicity, and not enough authentic AI.
WARNING: Smartphones have side effects--most of them undocumented.
Guess "NSA" can't start a subject line. Weird or spooky?
Trump needs to slap big tarrifs on AI to save jobs.
Tarrifs only apply to imported stuff. I think you meant taxes.
Do you honestly think a republican pro business low tax rate government will tax robots? That's why this government really wants protectionism - the financiers want to build automated factories here. And they say anybody who disagrees with them is spewing "fake news"
Greed is the root of all evil.
Let's hope the AI never gets to read Twitter, it might go haywire!
Are they Quietly Pursuing an Aggressive AI Plan? Or quietly and aggressively pursuing an AI plan?
China has had a significant AI program for a decade or more. Not always a large one, and I don't know it's current status (though I could guess), but even a decade ago they were recruiting researchers.
Now as to whether it's approaching success...I have no idea. I've got suspicions that they've diverted a lot of the work into their "social credit" scheme, but that's pure guesswork.
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
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.
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