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Trump Administration Unveils Order To Prioritize and Promote AI (reuters.com)
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday will sign an executive order asking federal government agencies to dedicate more resources and investment into research, promotion and training on artificial intelligence (AI), Reuters reports, citing a senior administration official said. From the report: Under the American AI Initiative, the administration will direct agencies to prioritize AI investments in research and development, increase access to federal data and models for that research and prepare workers to adapt to the era of AI. There was no specific funding announced for the initiative, the administration official said on a conference call, adding that it called for better reporting and tracking of spending on AI-related research and development. The initiative aims to make sure the United States keeps its research and development advantage in AI and related areas, such as advanced manufacturing and quantum computing. Trump, in his State of the Union speech last week, said he was willing to work with lawmakers to deliver new and important infrastructure investment, including investments in the cutting-edge industries of the future, calling it a "necessity."
Now I know what all the "AI" hype articles were for: grabbing taxpayer money. How original.
Weird Al? Al Pacino? You need to be more specific, man!
I though that DT was above all that: he made his own buzzwords, instead of repeating somebody else's.
Maybe in an upcoming election we'll have the choice of voting for an AI president, instead of other worse & universally poor options....
"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race." - H. G. Wells
I'm sure this idea has been novelized already: Earth is being conquered by a lone interstellar AI. Distances make sending complex life between stars impractical, but a machine is more feasible. Berserker seeds, not berserkers. Only Earth's tech won't support more AIs, so it has to guide us...
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
The Trump Administration is desperately seeking artificial intelligence due to the total absence of any natural intelligence.
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Had the Obama administration wanted this, the Republicans would have been screaming for impeachment.
In this era, there seems to be no middle ground. Each side seems to absolutely hate the other.
"So we had to get very, very tough on cyber and cyber warfare. It is a huge problem. I have a son—he’s 10 years old. He has computers. He is so good with these computers. It’s unbelievable. The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough. And maybe, it's hardly doable. But I will say, we are not doing the job we should be doing. But that’s true throughout our whole governmental society. We have so many things that we have to do better, Lester. And certainly cyber is one of them."
I don't respond to AC's.
It's us versus them. And, by US, I mean the public, versus Republicans & Democrats!
Now, since it is a Republican wanting this, the media, lib sites will condone it as "government spying".
Had Obama requested this, it would be the best thing since sliced bread.
To the contrary, when the Obama administration did announce an AI research policy... nobody paid the least bit of attention.
hbr.org/2016/12/the-obama-administrations-roadmap-for-ai-policy
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/10/12/administrations-report-future-artificial-intelligence
http://www.geoffreylandis.com
Automation cost more jobs in the last decade than immigrants or outsourcing and it is a trend that will continue according to UBS... who in only interested in long term investing.
GOOD that Trump is clueless about how much of a job killer this will be; especially for his base. IT people will not like being hated more than immigrants.
NOTE: Canada is #1 in AI because the smart people left for Canada during Bush's crimes, properly recognizing the terminal cancer in America's body politic; Trump is just a bigger tumor for those who were still ignoring the signs - the smart people should continue to emigrate. The USA is not capable to adapting to the changes that are coming; they can't even solve simple political problems already solved elsewhere.
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Let's just replace D. Trump by AI, we'll all be better off!
DNC -
Support KKK member as VA gov.
Support multiple rapist as VA Lt. gov
Support killing live born babies, calling it abortion
Against arresting criminals crossing border illegally
Want public to no longer fly airplanes
Want public to no longer eat steak
Want to reverse tax cuts that gave unemployed jobs
Refuse to do anything about massive drug problem coming across border
Refuse to do anything about illegal immigration, which reduces pay in construction jobs
Used IRS to target groups that didn't agree with their agenda
Destroy Medicare for elderly by putting everyone on it and bankrupting it out of existence
No, I think is us vs. the DNC at this point. I can't think of any of their other platforms that are concrete (skipping the tax everyone at 75% to pay for AGW because they haven't put in specific plans yet on that)
Could it be... that the proposal is just fine, we're just arguing about clickbaity headlines?
Keep in mind mathematics of resource planning was one of the vital things that won world war 2.
Could it be that we still have, in vastly inefficient government departments, areas where optimization can and should be applied?
I guess when you're running low on real intelligence, you have to resort to artificial.
Automation cost more jobs in the last decade than immigrants or outsourcing and it is a trend that will continue according to UBS... who in only interested in long term investing.
A) Immigrants demonstrably do not cost jobs. The US is a nation of immigrants and always has been. If immigrants cost jobs our nation would have failed long ago. In fact immigrants are responsible for a disproportionate share of successful new companies and job creation.
B) Automation creates jobs. This computer you are using right at this moment is nothing more than automation. Our entire technology sector did not even exist 70 years ago. The internet as we know it today simply did not exist prior to the 1990s.
C) Outsourcing relocates work to where it is economically efficient. If a company cannot compete with local wages/talent/infrastructure then.
D) Unemployment by any measure is consistent with historical norms. There is NO evidence of automation or immigrants or outsourcing causing an irreversible decline in employment.
GOOD that Trump is clueless about how much of a job killer this will be; especially for his base. IT people will not like being hated more than immigrants.
Yeah, yeah... We've been hearing this idiotic argument since the start of the industrial revolution. How every new technology is going to take away all the jobs. It was industrial robots when I was young. Guess what? It's always wrong. Every time it results in MORE jobs, not less. The jobs are different jobs but there are more of them in the end. Some people do have trouble with the changes but the economic gains by people at all levels of the economy at the end are indisputable.
Canada is #1 in AI because the smart people left for Canada during Bush's crimes
That's a nice little made up lie. No evidence of any mass exodus from the US to Canada in the last 20 years nor has the rate of emigration from the US to Canada changed dramatically.
Seriously, Robotics, AI, and Space are exactly where we need major pushes.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Candidates aren't universally poor, your judgement is. Maybe you should spend some time educating yourself on the vast differences between the candidates you clearly know nothing about.
It's slightly more difficult than your idiotic "both sides are bad" claims, but at least you won't be a tool of the political consultants who cover our eyes with a shroud of ignorant bothsiderism.
sjbe, the KKK supporter, posts link about immigrants creating companies. Fails to understand difference between legal and illegal immigration.
Illegal immigrants have put many US workers out of construction or lowered wages significantly. But sbje, who supports KKK member Northam of VA, doesn't care about them because they are "deplorable" and probably didn't vote for Hillary (who's Senate mentor was Robert Byrd, KKK leader).
Sad
If you can't tell, I'm pretty much tired of leftists calling me racist while supporting outright KKK members/leaders.
For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.
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It has blood on it!
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Losing my religion
I don't know if artificial insemination would lead to fewer clandestine arrangements with David Pecker or not.
Sure hope the president was fully apprised, or he might discover to his chagrin that AI is not the end all it's cracked up to be.
So in aviation, and I think similar in medical, we have to prove that our tests cover a sufficient amount of the code to show it is astonishingly rare to have the code do something it shouldn't. How practical is this kind of testing with AI systems?
Since I was able to vote, I have been, I've been voting for the person who best represents me, and voting in primaries (I have yet to see a libertarian win however). However, our system is broken. We need a different method of voting, liked preferential etc. As it stands, 'parties' are the inevitable outcome of first past the post.
This is the truth.
Now, since it is a Republican wanting this, the media, lib sites will condone it as "government spying".
Had Obama requested this, it would be the best thing since sliced bread.
As one of those liberals who hates most of Trump's signature agendas, the only thing I dislike about this is there is no actual money here. Just a request for federal agencies to divert their existing funds into AI research. It's really a do nothing gesture. No news of any detailed reports coming out of any subcommittees like you had on AI research in the last year of the Obama presidency. No news of adding a billion in funding each year, or something like that.
There really isn't anything to hate on here, or to like, because there just isn't anything of substance there.
-- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -- Edmund Burke
Who would have thought that the only President in modern times to use direct hatred and vitriol as his core platform would engender a negative emotional response from those he attacks? It doesn't make it right to dismiss everything the President says, but it takes a particularly strong person to look past Trump's demeanor to give him the benefit of the doubt on anything he says (unless they agree with his platform, which doesn't take any strength at all).
When 90% of what someone says is hateful and ignorant garbage, anyone should be forgiven for writing off the other 10% too just for convenience sake. Most people have better things to do.
-- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -- Edmund Burke
Does he know what intelligence is? Artificial or otherwise?
- The Kessel run is for nerf herders. I can circumnavigate the entire Central Finite Curve in a lot less than 12 parse
Doesn't believe in climate change or social projects, does believe in Birtherism, PizzaGate, and that DT knows more about everything than anybody.... ya, this is going go over real well.
To be fair.... These type of gotcha "man on the street" interviews are very self serving to the interviewer's position.
There are a pile of folks who whish to believe they are "in the know" and it's not hard to find somebody who *thinks* they are more knowledgeable than they really are. Such "I know everything" is common among college age people, who have still not completely developed their adult mental capacity and still have the adolescent tendencies. It's an age and maturity thing.
I remember when I was younger, I knew a lot more then than I know now, at least in my estimates. I grew up, realized my knowledge is limited, and my attitudes changed quite a bit, listening more, being slower to answer, and prone to actually looking up the facts for myself before running off my mouth on stuff I don't know anything about.
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They are looking for any intelligence in the government. This is nowadays a complex undertaking. You need very sensitive equipment to measure that. Also artificial intelligence would be helpful to supplement natural intelligence.
I agree with the rest of your comment, but I think crystal balls are cloudy in this area. The computers are now becoming capable of performing service jobs, which is where people went when automation reduced manufacturing jobs.
I work in manufacturing. Manufacturing jobs have not been reduced the way many people think. Some have been relocated. There are more manufacturing jobs than ever globally. What has changed in the US is that labor intensive products are not built in countries with low labor costs. Capital intensive products are built in the US. The US has a $3 Trillion manufacturing sector. The total number of manufacturing jobs in the US is about the same as it was at the start of WWII. It's down from the peak numbers in the 1970s but still accounts for around 13 million people and holding. The percent of the jobs in the economy has fallen but that's largely because the other sectors grew while manufacturing jobs stayed steady.
As well, the workers' share of profits has been declining for decades, and wages aren't keeping up with inflation, so that final point is extremely disputable.
That depends on exactly how you measure it and which jobs you are measuring. Just because someone has a smaller piece of the pie doesn't mean they are worse off if the pie overall grew. And the evidence is clear that the pie has grown. Sure you can find some periods where the data shows a decline but I can show you hundreds of years of data showing a very steady increase. Yes there are some serious income inequality issues going on but that isn't proof of some irreversible decline in employment thanks to automation. Don't conflate the two issues.
What exactly do the humans do when robots do the service jobs?
Several answers to that.
1) Robots do not and will not do all the service jobs. Automation does not solve every problem because it is not economical to automate everywhere. People naively extrapolate automation trends to infinity without really understanding what is going on. It's too expensive to automate problem and automation creates new jobs that cannot yet be automated. 70 years ago secretarial pools were a common thing. Today they are unheard of and yet we still have full employment.
2) We have no idea what jobs will be created by further advances in automation. We never have known and cannot know. I'm old enough to pre-date the internet and if anyone claims they predicted what it would do and the huge economic impact it has had is lying. We dreamed about such things but had absolutely no idea what form it would actually take or what jobs it would involve. The jobs people will be doing in 50 years are hard to imagine today. Some will be the same but many haven't even been invented yet.
3) Humans control legislatures and can easily regulate automation in places should it become necessary.
4) The amount of economically valuable work that can be done is effectively infinite and our resources to automate are finite. Automation can sometimes depress wages but it doesn't eliminate them altogether. Some things that are currently impossible become economically achievable as automation makes it possible for people to address those problems.
Of course Trump wants to develop artificial intelligence -- he has no natural intelligence.
When the piper you follow is a moron... all you'll get is stupider.
Steph
Now all of slashdot will pretend they haven't been fear mongering about it, it's all good now!
Give us all a good laugh and name one candidate from the last election, or any potential candidate for the4 upcoming election, that is not a poor choice.
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It would have been since Obama's intent is different. There's been several cases where Trump has proposed the same thing as Obama, but the media correctly attacked him because he does things for the wrong reasons.
Not really. My primary isn't until most of the other primaries have already happened. By that time the candidates have basically already been decided. So yeah, unless your state's primary is in February or March, you're screwed by the crappy choices the Super Tuesday states make.
I'd settle for some sign of HI (Human Intelligence) from this administration.
All that is necessary for the triumph of good is that evil men do nothing.
but they can and will lower pay in many industries. That's just supply and demand. It's a double edge sword.
Automation does _not_ create jobs. Instead new jobs are created to replace the jobs that were destroyed. This is not the same thing. And it's a slower process than folks realize.
Outsourcing doesn't send work where it's efficient, it sends it where it's _cheapest_. This is why you have tariffs. You need to level the playing field when another country is willing to abuse it's workforce or you end up in a race to the bottom.
Unemployment figures have been cooked by counting gig economy and temp workers as fully employed. This trend was massively accelerated post 2008 when the economy crashed and the recovery went to the top 1%.
There were decades of unemployment, wars and social strife during and following the industrial revolution. Wars cut down on the excess population and the instability prevented factories from outsourcing. That lead to a golden age of high wages in some countries when the Unions gained enough leverage to demand good pay. Outsourcing and legal changes killed the Unions and with it wages.
GP is trolling (that Canada point is nonsense) but it's mostly out of frustration. We need a New New Deal in this country. The ruling class has reneged on the old one.
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The US is accusing China of state-sponsored hi-tech push, while the US pirates their policy. Another example of American hypocrisy.
Actually, the threshold is lower, about 10% when you get to the Presidency.
It just isn't safe to let that much trouble in the White House. Of course, to get in my house, it is 2-3% unless you're an in law.
Wish I had mod points today. Mod parent up.
the solution isn't necessarily to stop immigration. The solution is to make sure that the wealth immigrants generate makes it to everyone.
Right now the money made from immigration goes to the top. At least in America. We don't have Single Payer healthcare, we have very few social services and we pay taxes that, if you count your company's healthcare as a tax (and you should, what else would you call it) we pay as much or more as anyone on Europe.
A huge part of the tension from immigration isn't just the occasional racist, it's that immigrants lower wages by increasing supply while improving a sector of the economy (the stock market) that doesn't affect the people who's wages are going down. Remember, only about 20% of Americans own stock, even if you include 401ks as "owning stock"....
This is why we need a New New Deal.
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coming from an administration who has shown total disregard for actual intelligence, what use do they think they'd have for artificial intelligence?
Probably trying to funnel more tax money to some friend of his.
I'm just shocked a Republican President is supporting any kind of real science- usually they only want research on better ways to stick your head in the sand.
Amazing. Now we can finally start working on this AI thing. I was getting worried.
Yes! I was hoping he'd be resistant to the hyped stuff in DC, like One Belt, One Road. Having a Digital Infrastructure, and the AI hype. Wrong.
Last election:
Beto O'Rourke
Colin Allread
My local mayor, majority of city council
Nancy Pelosi
2016:
Hillary Clinton, who won the popular vote, was prepared for the presidency and was not a Russian owned traitor.
Next Election:
Hopefully Beto
Cory Booker
All candidates who see the GOP Tax cut for the wealthy / tax increase for the middle class for what it is.
Any so-called 'AI' that is developed because of this 'prioritization' will be smarter than Trump himself is by at least a full order of magnitude.
For purposes of contrast, a 'Trump AI' could easily be implemented in an interpreted BASIC version of ELIZA.
...on a daily basis, I cannot deny realizing the damage AI is going to cause. The AI sales pitches are no different than teh sales pitches of computing when computers were first introduced to the public and that is enough to know, the AI fails are going to follow.
I can see this working out well for the Trump administration, with changes for the better occurring almost right away. After all, I've got a microwave oven that has a ten-point IQ advantage on the current president.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Beto O'Rourke
You mean good ol' Hit and Rourke?? They guy who literally changed his name to try and appear a tiny bit hispanic???
I'll just leave that there and not the rest pop them are worse. Much, much worse...
Sad that you are so blinded by partisanship you cannot see the enormous flaws of every single person you list, to the point I would not trust any of them five minutes alone with a living being I cared about much. Or my wallet.
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There really isn't anything to hate on here, or to like, because there just isn't anything of substance there.
Not only that, but it would take several years to get anything of substance going. It's not going to be Trump deciding how to use any potential "AI", it will be his successor, and we've no idea who that will be, or which party they will be representing.
Whether to use or abuse any AI, if any came out of this, wouldn't even be Trump's decision.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
This is only because the candidates wimp out and concede early, or the voters are dumb enough that they just go with a frontrunner, or assume that their vote won't matter. Plus, this is only for president which arguably should be the least important ballot choice on election day.
They are finally giving Al Gore the credit he deserves for inventing the internet! Oh wait... I might have misread one of those letters...
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
When the government is so desperately short on the natural variety, I'll vote for artificial intelligence every time.
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Might makes right irrelevant.
Choom gang Obama?
Whether to use or abuse any AI, if any came out of this, wouldn't even be Trump's decision.
Although Trump still gives us an idea of who the US electorate is willing to put in charge of the executive branch. And Trump is the devil we know; who knows how bad it could actually get. That should give everyone reason for concern long after Trump leaves office.
-- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -- Edmund Burke
His approval ratings are higher than Obama.
Which says something very unfortunate about the 40% of Americans approving of his leadership.
-- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -- Edmund Burke
For this administration, AI is essential. They have so little of their own.
That attitude isn't just a college-age thing, for example there's this guy who thinks he knows everything about everything: https://www.axios.com/everythi... . I see the age, still waiting on the maturity. Sigh.
I am not a sig.
Barron or Ivanka, depending on how long the bastard survives.
Why do you think there'll still be parties? Aren't they only relevant for elections?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
So you want the losers running at 1-5% to stay in and run with what money?
Sigh... idiot. They drop out BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO SUPPORT!!! Which means no money.
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True, it is not unique to college age kids. It's just more common to that age due to the normal development of the human brain. I too have run into older adults who think they know everything when they obviously don't. It just becomes less and less common as age goes up.
Of course, some professions attract these "I know it all, my opinion trumps any facts" people. I'm thinking of politicians, who often think they just happen to *know* something about everything and cannot keep themselves from addressing "the issues" even if they've not versed in even the rudimentary understanding of the subject.
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We now need a new branch of military dubbed "AI FORCE".
it takes a particularly strong person to look past Trump's demeanor to give him the benefit of the doubt on anything he says
Posts like yours make me appreciate that we are a democratic republic rather than a pure democracy. Long term satisfaction is in the contents, not the packaging.
When 90% of what someone says is hateful and ignorant garbage, anyone should be forgiven for writing off the other 10% too just for convenience sake. Most people have better things to do.
No one spouts 90% hateful BS. Evaluate your sources.
(I have yet to see a libertarian win however)
Libertarianism's problem is that those who can't pull themselves up by their own bootstraps are going to support candidates who lean more socialist, and those who got theirs (or those who are temporarily embarrassed millionaires*) are well served by the conservative candidates.
* Yeah, I realize it's a fallacy. It seems more likely the "have nots" who vote Republican do so because they feel they work very hard for the little bit they do earn, and don't like the idea that "deadbeats" are getting money for being lazy.
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Alternative Intelligence? Is that where you shoot yourself in the foot repeatedly, because it feels so good when you stop?
I think it might be!