Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
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LANL seems to think that AI research is just about having computers and people have nothing to do with it. Most LANL staff are now saying amongst themselves that LANLs AI efforts are poorly planed and have little hope of ever having impact.
LANL will never be the "AI" lab and there is little to no chance it will ever have any impact in this field. In fact I would venture to say that LANLs scientific impact is going to continue to decline.
I would guess if DOE really wants a AI lab they will need to start a new one, or it will be at ANL or ORNL. There was recent APS meeting which was the largest physics meeting of all time and I know for a fact that people from ex-LANL people at ORNL where telling everyone how much better it was and to get out of LANL.