Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says Washington has lost its edge in artificial intelligence and warns that China will win the AI race.
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He's not wrong. China is ahead across the board in science with a handful of exceptions. The same thing eroding the Labs and federal science in general are the cause. The forces driving NVIDIA stock are much to blame too (the irony!). We are divesting from all the things that would help us win at AI along with many other key technologies for national security and our economy in general. Trump's actions have only accelerated the problem rather than fixing anything. China will win because we surrendered.
5:24 -- We have to look at the bright side. Even though communism is a fate worse than death, it is entirely possibly that humanity will become extinct soon.
China will win because they have more engineering students than we have engineers. It has nothing to do with Trump and everything to do with the values our hedonistic society places on Hollywood, professional sports, and soft science over STEM.
What complete BS. China wins because they have a long term vision and we are short term. All the vices you mention have been used by Business to prey on people because it leads to profit. Profit and greed is more important than any social responsibility. Plus corporate philosophy is relentlessly short term. Cue up Trump who is the same. That said, idiotic corporate governance has been a disaster for the NNSA labs as they get hollowed out. There is no long term investment or view.
On the positive side we are failing to take advantage of our positive aspects as a society. Creativity and freedom of thought breeds new ideas. Those characteristics are being crushed by caution, lack of risk taking, and bureaucratic overreach. China is winning because we have allowed ourselves to be defeated. We have failed to do the things that gave us supremacy in the first place. Chief among this is any sense of civic or societal responsibility on the part of the institutions, the corporations and ultimately the individual. The only thing that matters now is money. No other value or principle is managed or prized. Money vetos everything.
7:38 One of the chatbots told me the following counterargument:
We need to stop coddling scientists in their taxpayer-funded "factory farms" and finally liberate them. True innovation, like "free-range" chicken, is just better when it has to scratch and peck for its own survival. We must remember that Albert Einstein wasn't on some cushy grant; he was a patent clerk, a true free-range mind doing world-changing physics on the side just to make rent. Once we defund the whole system, we'll have thousands of new, hungry Einsteins driving for Uber and serving lattes, their minds sharpened by the bracing air of competition. The scientific "meat" they produce will be so much leaner and more flavorful.
What was the prompt? AI is sycophantic that the prompt is everything!
For decades we have been strangling the source of our scientific and technical advantage as a society. Trump walked in and shot it in the head. We were in slow decline. The system needed to be fixed. There are huge problems. If you worked at the Labs this is obvious. The change to corporate governance only accelerated the decline. The acts of the last year haven't fixed anything.
"What was the prompt? AI is sycophantic that the prompt is everything"
I have noticed that some young people are using AI so much that they start using the same language in everyday conversations. They keep asking variations on the same question over and over and I keep giving them the same answer and they seem confused. It is like they are changing the prompt until they get the answer they want and get frustrated when they told the same thing.
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