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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....
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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.
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...
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The Trump Administration is desperately seeking artificial intelligence due to the total absence of any natural intelligence.
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"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!
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.
and get the President you want. We don't _have_ to have crap candidates. But if we want good ones it means showing up to the election before the election. That's where your vote has the most power.
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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?
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.
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.
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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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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.
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.
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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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.
Seein' as how the American people have lost any reasonable level of intelligence, we need to artificially import it. MAGA!
For this administration, AI is essential. They have so little of their own.
We now need a new branch of military dubbed "AI FORCE".
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!