Prez Trump orders Uncle Sam to step up AI efforts – we all know the White House knows a lot about artificial intelligence President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday kickstarting the American AI Initiative, a strategic plan to keep the nation ahead of its competitors in artificial intelligence. “Continued American leadership in Artificial Intelligence is of paramount importance to maintaining the economic and national security of …
“Continued American leadership in Artificial Intelligence is of paramount importance to maintaining the economic and national security of the United States,” Trump said.
Oh please, Donald, you cannot be serious. Don't you read the memos and reports painting the picture that Uncle Sam is always liable to overwhelming foreign attack on economic and national security machines and must defend and preen itself with the spending of thousands of millions of dollars it prints/pumps/pimps to create out of nothing deficits and debt it cares not a jot about.
What/Who on Earth has led you to believe the nonsense that Artificial Intelligence is American led and is to continue?
Such is surely certifiable madness and puts one in the danger zone of presidential impeachment and summary dismissal from executive administrative office?
While my candidate never makes it through the primary season, I can defend US AI. Google. MIT, Cal Tech, Carnegie Mellon, et al, suffice. It is easy for people to overlook what Trump has accomplished. After all, they've get a nicely woven narrative to make them comfortable hurling insults over the wall. If you read/listened to the BBC, NBC, ABC or read the major European papers over the last two years, over the last month, what you'll read today will fit harmoniously with what they tell you today. Conformation isn't just a Bias, but a favorite flavor.
Even Joe Biden's brother Frank recently said, "everybody in the family voted for Trump, because we can't stand Hilary." It's no wonder. And I laugh: We're going crazy in the US trying to tie Trump to Russia somehow. Yet, first, we know Hillary actually paid, through British former and not-so-former spied to employ Russian agents to hunt up ultra-salacious-sounding slurs on Trump. About Trump's hypothesized Russian connections, we have nothing of note to point to. I know, though "you may hate what I say, you'll risk your life to defend my right to say it." Not so much? Well, it was a nice concept while it lasted....
/ "everybody in the family voted for Trump, because we can't stand Hilary." It's no wonder /
Except Clinton won the popular vote by about 3 million, which rather sinks your supposition that Trump was the popular choice. There is no evidence of her colluding with Russia, while the investigation into your hero gets nearer every day, despite his interference, to nailing him.
Keep trying, even though it makes you look silly.
FOR THE MILLIONTH TIME ALRADY The Presidential Election is not, nor has it ever been a beauty pageant! The Electoral College exists for a reason, its so that the dosptopotional amount of idiots from State "A", (i.e. California), can not impose its will upon State "B".
The Electoral College is there to protect the minority intrests of the divestity of thought, that a lot of you lot love to bang on about. but, yes I guss this would be the second time you commie progressives got stung by the system... It just means that everything is working the exact way our founding fathers had planed for it to work from the start.
Mores the pitty that they lost control of the Banks... But, anyone with enough sense to remember their corse in high school civics. Will never see this point cedded.
Though I have to grimice at the idiots who actually think Alexandria Occasio Cortez, could with her tender young 30 Years of experience on this Earth. could yet, still save the Day, and defeat our God Empeor. :D
*Yeah AOC, might, unlike Berry have no problems proving that she was born in New York. She still isnt 42 Years Old, and so could only concider running well after 2032, or in 12 Years time.
I love it that someone gave me a thumbs-down for that observation. I don't know whether that means they've never heard Donald Trump try to explain something or they've never heard a six year old try to explain something.
"It's all happening much faster than anybody can believe. Even one of them recently said that President Trump made promises but he’s kept many more promises, I mean far more than I made. Think of it, it’s true." -- Donald Trump, Nov 1st 2018
While I personally find it difficult to listen to him, I do think there is some mileage in the idea that his delivery is designed to appeal to the "cognitively challenged" (a larger part of the population than we both might imagine, because I don't mean just the idiots). They're just listening for key words and phrases that signal he's on their side. This is why his team isn't worried that his speeches are so full of inaccurracies and downright fallacies. It's worth reading some of the stuff Scott Adams wrote about his campaign back in 2015 and 2016, before he switched to his periscope casts.
The only problem with this interpretation is that it fails to take into consideration the problems associated with his international speeches.
Oh, and anyway, way your downvotes with pride! Echo bubbles are for losers!
I do think there is some mileage in the idea that his delivery is designed to appeal to the "cognitively challenged" (a larger part of the population than we both might imagine, because I don't mean just the idiots).
I think it's just like that; he speaks with parenthesis included (even with nested parenthesis (even nested, nested parenthesis) (a great talent (a huge talent), the best there is (the Donald is great (the best) at it)).
It always sounds to me as I imagine someone with a multiple-personality disorder would sound while commenting on and praising what they were saying while saying it.
I guess it's also a bit like art; some people are able to 'get it' and put aside 'but I can't explain it' without worrying over that or how 'it doesn't make any sense'.
he speaks with parenthesis included (even with nested parenthesis (even nested, nested parenthesis) (a great talent (a huge talent), the best there is (the Donald is great (the best) at it))
Fucking hell, Jason, give us a warning before you do that! That nearly triggered my Lisp PTSD.
The horror, the horror...
French is a beautiful language. Finnish is a beautiful language. Lisp is the equivalent of Hungarian as spoken by a Valley girl with a railroad spike through her tongue while doing a bad impersonation of Donald Trump.
(I admit I may be presenting a few minor biases here.)
I think it's just like that; he speaks with parenthesis included (even with nested parenthesis (even nested, nested parenthesis) (a great talent (a huge talent), the best there is (the Donald is great (the best) at it)).
No, he's being a programmer using recursive calls:
x = doFunction1(y, doFunction2(doFunction1(a, b), z, doFunction3(c, d)))
EDIT: Seems that @Rich 11 has beaten me to it xD
I think it's just like that; he speaks with parenthesis included (even with nested parenthesis (even nested, nested parenthesis) (a great talent (a huge talent), the best there is (the Donald is great (the best) at it)).
What you are saying is, he speaks with a Lisp.
The main issue is that good machine learning algorithms depend on lots of high-quality training data. In order for them to be useful in our lives, it will usually be personal data. So the countries that can mandate users to hand over personal data for the good of the glorious revolution (China) will have the best data, and then the countries where companies can hoover up whatever they want with no regard for your privacy (US) will be behind them. Europe, with GDPR, will be far behind.
All I can say is "lucky them" (the citizens of the EU, that is). The usefulness of any given AI is closely related to the quality of its training data, the degree to which hidden bias in that training data is removed/corrected, and the quality of the actual data being supplied to the trained system. If your AI/ML system has an extremely narrow focus with high quality training data and high quality input data it can be useful and probably fairly reliable.
In systems that are being fed data collected en masse (both voluntarily supplied and involuntarily mined) the spectrum of data quality is going to be so wide that training an AI that never produces a 'junk' result from real data is nigh on impossible.
You can't use AI to make decisions about people's lives on the basis of this kind of data. You can never be certain that the system you regard as well trained will not produce a stupid answer. Even if you catch the stupid answer you won't know how to prevent the same thing happening again. Statistical likelihood is not enough dealing with tens, and hundreds, of millions of people, each with thousands of data points, every day.
I think we've reached peak folly here. Coat, because much like gambling and financial instrument trading, AI/ML is something I'll never work on.
If that doesn't get us, the end of the insects will mean we'll all starve anyway.
Currently the US is determinedly fighting the wrong wars with the wrong enemy. And giant electric cars that sell to fewer than 1% of the population won't fix climate change and food shortages. A rational arms race between the US and China would aim at sustainability and deterrence, not dominance and aggression.
Currently China looks more likely to win that one.
Funny I thought, the world according to The man who singlehandely invented the intertubes (i.e. Al Gore for those to young to remember...), we would, all be in some very bad Keven Costner movie world by now. Ok, but we will defintly be there inside of the next Ten Years, according to another bright mind going by the name of Alexandria Ocasio Cortez.
I'm of course confident enough to place a bet on the World pretty much looing the same then, as now, as it once was several decades ago. But, hay perhaps if we cry wolf enough... It might actually appear? Then again... Unlike Global Warming... At leat I can accept that Wolves are in fact a real threat, and, not an imagend One, used to buke the taxpayer out of. By ever increasing prices on Gas, and Electicity.
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One of the reasons I left the UK for the US many years ago was that at the time the 'white heat of technology' really meant 'if you invent something in your garden shed that can make us money we will be only too pleased to exploit it for you'. There was systematic under investment in technology -- civilian technology -- which was mirrored by the appalling wages that companies were prepared to pay engineers. The US seemed a lot different, and it was, because of the ready availability of capital. However, all wasn't quite as wonderful as it seemed, there was still this undercurrent of doing everything on the cheap that hobbled work in the UK, but at least the wages were a lot better.
Fast forward a few decades and those systematic under investment chickens have come home to roost. Yes, the US still has an enormous capability compared to the UK but its gone pretty much down the same route, the signs of trouble being a chronic 'hard' skills shortage and a focus on derivative products that can be built quickly with minimal investment with the hope of making a killing. The appearance of unicorns, in fact. This hollowing out can be attributed to outsourcing and its going to take some time to reverse this trend, especially as the US isn't quite as attractive to the highly skilled as it was decades ago. Like the UK of old we're now excelling primarily in marketing -- we know how to talk up a product, to package and sell it but our intentions often outstrip our capabilities.
"Machine learning has often been described as an arms race with both countries competing to develop military applications using the technology."
The way the US and the PRC are in each other's pockets, it's more a three-legged race. You are not expected to understand this.
(Mind you, I came to the conclusion during the last years of the Old Cold War, that we needed an Interdependence Day to commiserate/celebrate the fact, however unpleasant it might have been, that neither side could lift a finger without sticking it up the arse of their opposing number in the opposite camp. Siamese Twins having a knock-out bout bareknuckled. Well, when are we going to celebrate/commiserate Interdependence Day? I'd suggest Nagasaki Memorial Day for that; alternatively we could take the day that the Soviet Union exploded its first nuke.)
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