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."

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Re:Uh oh

[Geoffrey.landis]

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

US vs the DNC

[Anonymous Coward]

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)

Re:US vs the DNC

[Anonymous Coward]

Absolute tosh.

Technology creates jobs

[sjbe]

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.

I should add

[rsilvergun]

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.