Trump scrapped Biden's 'Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence' decree, and promised to invest 500 billion dollars in AI infrastructure and development.
Someone make sure that he does not install ChatGTP as head of the nuclear launch buttons anytime soon.
Meanwhile, the EU decided today to make independent factcheckers mandatory for social media platforms. Meta will need to rehire them if they want to keep their service in the EU.
Everything is fine. Elon will probably just syphon off 499.999 billion dollars and buy a boat or something. The remaining shithole millionaires will divide up the remaining funds to buy some really expensive wine. Zero dollars will actually be spent on AI.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrHsw4Oja7wShortly after President Donald Trump announced a new massive AI infrastructure investment from the White House, “First Buddy” Elon Musk tried to tear it down.
“They don’t actually have the money,” Musk wrote on his social media platform X. “SoftBank has well under $10B secured. I have that on good authority.”
Trump said the investment will create a new company, called Stargate, to grow artificial
Nah, the 500 billion is for the
stargate project and is private money not coming from the government. Elon is malding about it cause he has his own competing AI company and since its private money for other people he won't have any way to siphon it off.
I have little doubt the money is going to go to its stated purpose; which is building hundreds of billions of dollars worth of data centers so OpenAI can make and run more AI because: 1) Altman really believes in the potential of AI (even if only to make $$$) and is investing crazily in it, 2) They aren't using government money, the people actually investing in it aren't going to be foisted off like the government would be.