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Did you hear? All the sudden Northrop Grumman, Boeing, and Halliburton are at the forefront of AI and Quantum computing!
by alpineidyll3 6y ago
Did you hear? All the sudden Northrop Grumman, Boeing, and Halliburton are at the forefront of AI and Quantum computing!
- tmotwu 6y agoThe plan is pretty specific. $140 million to USDA. AI in Agtech is a highly underrated idea and deserves more exploration. $625 million to the work at "Energy Department’s Argonne, Brookhaven, Fermilab, Oak Ridge and Lawrence Berkeley". NSF direct funding towards universities, per quote "The institutes will be hosted by universities across the country: the University of Oklahoma, the University of Texas at Austin, University of Colorado, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of California, Davis, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology." Private funding in AI is flourishing - we absolutely needed this for our public and federal government institutions. Like anyone else, I hope this White House leaves by November, but this is a unicorn effort they deserve praise for.
- alpineidyll3 6y agoMore funding is good. Although of the 625m at the nat labs contractors like Battelle will take ~300m or more. This type of feast/famine short term topical funding is usually a disaster. Investigators will pursue the money, trying to shoehorn whatever they're previous pet project was, then the funding will dry up and the main net effect will be some shallow projects. Renewable grants are the blood of science. A single center openly funding as many investigators as possible for 10 years would be much more effective.