The White House just started an AI task force

The Trump administration wants to make artificial intelligence great again. We're not really sure -- the administration just announced a new AI task force that will promote American artificial intelligence efforts, but it's not yet clear what exactly this group will do. The Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence, an effort of the National Science and Technology Council, was announced at a May 10 White House event that hosted representatives from tech giants like Google, Amazon and Facebook. The announcement by Michael Kratsios, deputy chief technology officer and the president's deputy assistant, was thick with aspiration, describing how robotics efforts that have seen success -- such as "Robotics Row" in Pittsburgh -- could be used as models to spur job growth for workers hurt by automation. Yet it was thin on details of how the task force would help accomplish that.