Daily Mail: Eric Schmidt warns China will overtake the US in AI by 2025 and says Trump is to blame
* Trump's 2018 budget request slashes funds for basic science and research by $4.3 billion, roughly 13 percent compared to 2016
* Schmidt said this was key to AI research continuing in the US
* Hit out at Trump's multicountry travel ban and other immigration policies
Alphabet boss Eric Schmidt has warned the Chinese are poised to erase a key American advantage — and says the Trump administration is helping them.
'I'm assuming our [U.S.] lead will continue over the next five years and then that China will catch up extremely quickly,' the Google leader told the Center for New American Security's Paul Scharre at the Artificial Intelligence & Global Security Summit on Wednesday, according to Defense One.
Schmidt, who also chairs the Defense Innovation Advisory Board, said the key difference was the importance the Chinese government put on AI - and slammed Donald Trump's administration for falling behind.
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3 comments:
The Russians, American and Chinese want to dominate AI.
So what Eric Schimndt says is no no genius.
Throwing money at stuff is no panacea. So more money is not always the answer.
Eric Schmidt has thrown out generic criticisms. That is all.
His intemperate outburst did have one secondary effect. People who dislike Google dislike it more now.
A careful reader, ie, high school grad, would note that Schmidt says much more than we need to "toss money." It is what he says is ignored that seems to have pestered the commenter above
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BIOYA.
A careful reader, ie, a middle school graduate, would look at historical spending.
www.aaas.org/sites/default/files/DefNon;.jpg
An intelligent reader would wonder about the loyalty of a top Iranian scientist. Would the U.S. research bear fruit here just to be wired to Tehran the same day?
The Daily Mail article is very 'vanilla', when it discusses basic research and what fields they are in.
Schmnitty does not say, where he would put the money. He is basically making a big round number argument.
H1-B enables lords like Schmitty to hire Indian programmers to replace American programmers to increase Gogle profits. The end resault is that Schmotty's compensation package balloons by tens of millions of dollars.
To borrow liberal terminology, one needs to look at the intersection of H1-B visa policy and Schmitty's paycheck.
So far greedy people like Schmitty are winning, mostly. If you can outsource IT, we can outsource CEO, lower compensation packages and get more shareholder value.
Maybe we pass a poison pill law that says if you outsource IT to Indian you have to have Indian CEO, COO, & CIO. Then we see if Schmitty's lilly white ass puckers up as he sees a pink slip coming.
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Judge Says Disney Didn’t Violate Visa Laws in Layoffs
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Maybe Schmitty wants to piggy back off the Feds instead of properly funding his own R& D as much.
Data check: U.S. government share of basic research funding falls below 50%
www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/data-check-us-government-share-basic-research-funding-falls-below-50
Note that this article is published when an Obama budget was in effect.
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