White House Launches New AI Website

The White House has launched a new website, AI.gov, to make artificial intelligence research more accessible across the nation. Axios: The U.S. once led significantly in the global artificial intelligence race, but now risks being overtaken by China. This is one step the White House is taking to drum up excitement for AI and broaden educational opportunities in the field. The website's target audience is the general public, and its purpose is to make public information available on AI more visible to someone like a teacher or student interested in science. Users will be able to visit the website to learn how artificial intelligence is being used across the nation in a variety of ways, including to respond to the COVID pandemic and weather forecasting, for example. It's also meant to be a tool to advance research.

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[anonymouscoward52236]

You mean like that Black Mirror episode where we can see Trump die in a cage over and over again? COOOOL!!! I'd pay for that!

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[anonymouscoward52236]

I will tame down my request. We'll only do the Black Mirror where we get to see his AI die over and over for the half million lives he killed. (Once per life.) At least now it's a finite amount.

This term "AI"

[RitchCraft]

AI does not exist as it's being presented. Just a bunch of crap. We should rename it to Fast and Efficient Computer Algorithms (FECAL).

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[flyingfsck]

Maybe there will finally be intelligence in the WH. One can only hope.

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[guruevi]

AI is neither fast nor efficient, once the algorithm finds a best path, it's best to refactor it.

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[narcc]

You might be interested in "rule extraction" techniques. This paper [arxiv.org] is older, but it's really easy even for laypersons, with just a little experience with NNs, to follow.

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[narcc]

That's not really true. At all. We figured out pretty quickly that Chess didn't require intelligence.

If you're interested in the origin of the term AI and what those early pioneers thought, I'd recommend Pamela McCorduck's book Machines Who Think. The first edition, if you can find it, gives a fantastic insiders look, including a detailed origin of the term AI, and what insiders really thought about the term.

I can't speak to the new second edition, but I would guess that a lot of the historical content w

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[RitchCraft]

Oh my, first time I've been a troll. LOL, no humor on Slashdot?

And it shall be called ...

[PPH]

... Colussus.

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[LifesABeach]

consider.
america builds a super intelligent machine.
an does not put an off switch on the damn thing

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[narcc]

Nothing has a real off switch these days. You know, the kind that just cut power directly. It will be our undoing.

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[LifesABeach]

ok.
consider a device that is as big as refrigerator.
so when the device needs to be repaired.
if the device has a tendency to roll and crush things near by.
what does one do to repair it

Is it easier

[WoodstockJeff]

to simulate artificial intelligence, when you forcefully restrict the real thing?

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[algaeman]

Don't you think we should have created artificial intelligence before we phased out the real thing?

You see me Trollin..

[Rhaize]

Politically Motivated Comment about the US developing more AI for China to steal. maybe we should invest in security..

I wondered what was holding back US AI research

[Too Late for Cool ID]

Now that we've got a government website, watch out!

National Artificial Intelligence Initiative

[Woodburypeople]

It's closely related to The National Artificial Intelligence Initiative. A regulated AI is a part of the strategy that White House is aimed at. Meaning that they will regulate data, but not algorithms. The latter should be more likely regulated too, but it's too complicated... read more about ethics researchers at custom writing company [customwritingcompany.com]