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Is it common in the US to have this kind of "national initiative"? In Canada, we have various "National {x} strategies" but my perception is that they rarely a

Is it common in the US to have this kind of "national initiative"? In Canada, we have various "National {x} strategies" but my perception is that they rarely accomplish anything and are more as favors to Canada's elites and for political gain. I had always associated this kind of thing more with our kind of political system. How is it percieved in the US?

ed25519FUUU 6y ago
In the USA, many technologies come out of government research labs, but almost exclusively from the defense space. As far as I know this type of thing hasn’t really produced anything of note, but sometimes it does affect policy.
- Communitivity 6y ago
  It all depends on the amount of funding and top-level support. Many technologies get created within DoD and rest of US government, with most not achieving widespread adoption (I'm using that as criteria for being of note). Some do, such as the Library of Congress classification system that replaced the Dewey decimal system in many libraries (https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/ https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/) . Also, the internet, which grew out of Arpanet project (https://www.internetsociety.org/internet/history-internet/brief-history-internet/ https://www.internetsociety.org/internet/history-internet/br...)
mistrial9 6y ago
curious you should mention it (from Canada) ! "Since Canada published the world’s first national AI strategy in 2017, more than 30 other countries and regions have published similar documents as of December 2020." "The launch of the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) AI Policy Observatory and Network of Experts on AI in 2020 promoted intergovernmental efforts to work together to support the development of AI for all." source: AI Index Report 2021 from Stanford HAI Lab [0] https://oecd.ai/wonk/oecd-and-g7-artificial-intelligence-initiatives-side-by-side-for-responsible-ai https://oecd.ai/wonk/oecd-and-g7-artificial-intelligence-ini...
- 908B64B197 6y ago
  I'm not sure if there's a real strategy here or rather it's that one of the top researchers in the field, Turing Award recipient Yoshua Bengio made the explicit decision to stay in Montreal [0]. If the name sounds familiar, he's Samy Bengio's brother. [0] https://mila.quebec/en/person/bengio-yoshua/ https://mila.quebec/en/person/bengio-yoshua/
  - bigdict 6y ago
    Samy Bengio is Yoshua Bengio's brother, not the other way around.
    - version_five 6y ago
      Brotherhood is not commutative!?

ed25519FUUU 6y ago

In the USA, many technologies come out of government research labs, but almost exclusively from the defense space. As far as I know this type of thing hasn’t really produced anything of note, but sometimes it does affect policy.

Communitivity 6y ago
It all depends on the amount of funding and top-level support. Many technologies get created within DoD and rest of US government, with most not achieving widespread adoption (I'm using that as criteria for being of note). Some do, such as the Library of Congress classification system that replaced the Dewey decimal system in many libraries (https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/ https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/) . Also, the internet, which grew out of Arpanet project (https://www.internetsociety.org/internet/history-internet/brief-history-internet/ https://www.internetsociety.org/internet/history-internet/br...)

mistrial9 6y ago

curious you should mention it (from Canada) ! "Since Canada published the world’s first national AI strategy in 2017, more than 30 other countries and regions have published similar documents as of December 2020." "The launch of the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) AI Policy Observatory and Network of Experts on AI in 2020 promoted intergovernmental efforts to work together to support the development of AI for all." source: AI Index Report 2021 from Stanford HAI Lab [0] https://oecd.ai/wonk/oecd-and-g7-artificial-intelligence-initiatives-side-by-side-for-responsible-ai https://oecd.ai/wonk/oecd-and-g7-artificial-intelligence-ini...

908B64B197 6y ago
I'm not sure if there's a real strategy here or rather it's that one of the top researchers in the field, Turing Award recipient Yoshua Bengio made the explicit decision to stay in Montreal [0]. If the name sounds familiar, he's Samy Bengio's brother. [0] https://mila.quebec/en/person/bengio-yoshua/ https://mila.quebec/en/person/bengio-yoshua/
- bigdict 6y ago
  Samy Bengio is Yoshua Bengio's brother, not the other way around.
  - version_five 6y ago
    Brotherhood is not commutative!?