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A Very Real Intelligence Race: The White House Hosts 38 Tech Companies on AI

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The White House today is hosting executives from 38 companies for a grueling, embattled day of trying to move through the as of yet murky waters of AI development. The meeting, which includes representatives from Microsoft, Intel, Google, Amazon, Pfizer, and Ford, among others, aims to gather thoughts and ideas on how to supercharge AI development in a sustainable, safe, and cost-effective way.

Fields such as agriculture, healthcare and transportation are being spearheaded as areas of interest (military applications, obviously, are being discussed elsewhere). The Washington Post quotes Michael Kratsios, deputy chief technology officer at the White House, as saying in a recent interview that "Whether you're a farmer in Iowa, an energy producer in Texas, a drug manufacturer in Boston, you are going to be using these techniques to drive your business going forward."





The US government's own estimates point towards some $2 billion being spent in 2017 on unclassified AI development venues (classified investment is likely to be much higher). The meeting looks to advance thoughts on both short-term and long-term AI and robotization's impacts on job availability. This impact, however, is being quoted as being ill-interpreted: according to Dean Garfield, the president of the Information Technology Industry Council, Ai isn't going to be about job destruction, but about job movement - the old tasks which require intensive human labor should be eventually replaced, yes, but other job requirements will surface as infrastructure and management requirements increase.

The meeting also has some global politics and strategy involved, though - as it naturally would. The US aims to entrench itself firmly in the AI field against competitors such as China, who has been increasing spendings in the field: dominating the technology (or at least being at the forefront of it) would insulate "risks to U.S. national security (...) as competitors integrate information derived from personal and commercial sources with intelligence collection and data analytic capabilities based on artificial intelligence and machine learning."

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I went looking for the full list of companies that were invited. Nobody has this information, and The White house hasn't issued a press release, not that I can find. It would be nice to see how they stacked the deck, by who they invited (and didn't invite). TPU quotes the Washington Post as the source, so I read that article, and it only list 4 companies that were invited, Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Intel, "+ 34 more". TPU lists 6, so where did you get this info that wasn't in the source article?
 

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I went looking for the full list of companies that were invited. Nobody has this information, and The White house hasn't issued a press release, not that I can find. It would be nice to see how they stacked the deck, by who they invited (and didn't invite). TPU quotes the Washington Post as the source, so I read that article, and it only list 4 companies that were invited, Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Intel, "+ 34 more". TPU lists 6, so where did you get this info that wasn't in the source article?

From the source:

Among those expected to be in the room for that private gathering Thursday will be representatives from tech giants like Microsoft, Nvidia and Oracle, as well as other businesses like Ford, Land O’Lakes, MasterCard, Pfizer and United Airlines, according to the White House.

Read before you critique, it is there.
 
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maybe more like a auction to see who's agendas will push through congress , truth be known

seemed like if I recall during 9-11 they got bill gates to the white house faster then the president . wonder why ?? hmmmmm......
 
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The Associated Press said:
Ian Buck, who leads the data center business for chipmaker Nvidia, said his company also supports the administration's plans to make more government data sets available to researchers.
 

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... Well they could use some intelligence...
 
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One of the better roles I think Jim Caviezel has played. The first couple of seasons were pretty good - I think the overall story line got too big, too fast. I still enjoyed it for the 5 seasons it ran.

Some of the things brought up in there, such as:
Harold Finch: Hester's living off the grid - no photos online and nothing on the social networking sites.

John Reese: I never understood why people put all their information on those sites. Used to make our job a lot easier at the CIA.

Harold Finch: Of course. That's why I created them.

John Reese: You're telling me you invented online social networking, Finch?

Harold Finch: The Machine needed more information. People's social graph, their associations. The government had been trying to figure it out for years. Turns out most people were happy to volunteer it. Business wound up being quite profitable, too.

It kind of makes you wonder how much you see on the show could actually have a hint of truth in it.....
 

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One of the better roles I think Jim Caviezel has played. The first couple of seasons were pretty good - I think the overall story line got too big, too fast. I still enjoyed it for the 5 seasons it ran.

Kind of agree. I didnt like the way it built up to the ending, It just felt very rushed. like 50 Arnold Schwarzeneggers waking you up in the middle of the night and saying "John, We have to go! NAO!!!" oneafter the other before the other one has finished making it a bit of a cacophony
 
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The discussion will be about how to create Skynet thats prejudicial to Russians!:rolleyes:

And the movie Echelon comes to mind.
 
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