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Texas GOP could stall Trump's bold AI vision with red tape as China races ahead: 'Investors are nervous'

FOX News

President Trump announces the U.S. Stargate investment alongside three artificial intelligence industry leaders. President Donald Trump's high-tech moonshot may hit a Texas-sized speed bump -- and it's coming from his own party. Trump's AI initiative, dubbed "Stargate," aims to build 20 ultra-powerful data centers across the country. Backed by heavyweights like OpenAI, Oracle, SoftBank, and the UAE-funded MGX, the project represents a 500 billion bet on the future with Texas chosen as ground zero for the first 10 centers. But a new Texas bill, Senate Bill 6, could delay or derail that momentum.


'Bad idea': Conservatives warn red state data center bill will derail Trump's vision of energy 'golden age'

FOX News

Yurts founder and CEO Ben Van Roo breaks down concerns over DeepSeek on The Will Cain Show. Conservatives on social media and in the public square are increasingly speaking out about a bill being mulled in the Texas legislature they say threatens President Donald Trump's goal of ushering in a "golden age" of American energy and AI dominance. Some conservatives are rebelling over a proposal in the Texas Senate that will give the state broad authority to control new data centers in the state. SB6, or "the data center bill," caused an online ruckus recently, with conservative opposition to the bill gaining momentum, arguing that the bill, should it pass, will impose a major roadblock to the Trump administration's "Golden Age" of American energy production. Texas, long believed to be an ideal location for the AI fueling data centers, is a major location for President Trump's multibillion-dollar Stargate plan and is considered a finalist for numerous other multibillion-dollar projects and investments over the next decade.


Can AI help to increase access to all languages?

#artificialintelligence

Languages are the main medium of communication but there are more than 7,100 languages spoken around the world. People who live in different parts of the world speak different languages and it's sometimes hard to communicate with people who don't speak our language. This hinders relationships between people and makes it hard to understand one another or build trust. The ability to translate language, then, makes it easier to communicate across borders, and make information more accessible. With the advances in technology and artificial intelligence, online translators such as Google Translate, DeepL, and Bing Translate have made communication a lot easier among those speaking different languages.


A Personal Tribute to Patrick Henry Winston

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Patrick Henry Winston was, by all standards, a rock star in the field of Artificial Intelligence. In 1970, Patrick wrote his Ph.D. thesis, in which he explored -- under the improvisational supervision of his advisor, Marvin Minsky -- the theoretical difficulties of learning, and wrote in Lisp a blocks-world program that could perceive blocks and block-enabled architectures (e.g. That computer program was able to learn to generalize its existing knowledge when comparing a baseline example architecture with a new example, and specialize its existing knowledge when comparing a baseline example with a near miss. That was the first effort ever in making machines learn things in ways that resemble how humans learn things. Some say that was "real" Machine Learning, much unlike statistical Machine Learning and neural-net Machine Learning, whereby programmers would program their computers to slavishly crunch through hundreds of billions of data points, which is nothing like how people learn new things, but has become popular because the theory behind them are much more understood and much easier to implement, and because this kind of big-data crunching is practically allowed for due to the tremendous computing power that we have today.


Do You Want To Eat Grandma? - EconIssues – Patrick A McNutt

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Likes and dislikes, preferences and options, clicks and cache are the moves in the game. With neoteny later moves in a data pattern resemble earlier moves. By the 6th move[1] in a 16 move sequence, for example, the onsumer has provided sufficient data, enabling Al.


AI UK – discussing the national AI strategy, AI Standards Hub, and data in the public eye

AIHub

Hosted by the Alan Turing Institute, AI UK is a two day conference that showcases artificial intelligence and data science research, development, and policy in the UK. This year, the event took place on 22 and 23 March, and participants were treated to a variety of interesting talks, panel discussions, and conversations on a wide variety of topics. The past year has seen much activity in the UK with regards to strategy, governance and policy. The policy-related sessions at AI UK provided the opportunity for participants to find out more about, amongst other things, the progress of AI-related legislation, regulation, the national AI strategy, the national AI Standards Hub, and how data is used at a governmental level. We take a look at three of the policy and strategy-related sessions that took place during the two days.


Doodle 4 Google: Search engine offers children chance to design their own inspirational logo

The Independent - Tech

Google is offering US schoolchildren the chance to design their own Doodle to appear on its homepage. The Google Doodle sees the Silicon Valley search giant periodically replace its familiar logo with a sketch, often animated, to celebrate a public figure on an anniversary associated with them or their achievements. Doing so offers an opportunity to champion figures from the arts and sciences who have distinguished themselves through innovation or by blazing a trail for others and deserve to be better known. This year's theme is "hope", with entrants asked to submit a design based on their personal wishes for the future. Kids who would like to get involved have until 8pm Pacific Time on 19 March 2019 to upload a .jpg


Google at 20: Googlewhacks, barrel rolls and the search engine's best Easter eggs

The Independent - Tech

Search giant Google is celebrating its own 20th birthday today with a trademark Doodle. Replacing its logo with an occasional animation paying tribute to eminent figures from the worlds of science, the arts and history on their anniversaries is just one of the ways in which the site's programmers can express themselves. Their quirky sense of humour is actually embedded within the software's DNA. If you tell Google to "do a barrel roll", the whole page will spin clockwise at 90 degrees before juddering to a stop. If you search for "the answer to life the universe and everything", you'll be presented with Google's calculator displaying the number 42, an in-joke alluding to Douglas Adams' cult science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978).