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Opinion | I Just Saw the Future. It Was Not in America. (www.nytimes.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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It’s downright scary to watch this close up. President Trump is focused on what teams American transgender athletes can race on, and China is focused on transforming its factories with A.I. so it can outrace all our factories. Trump’s “Liberation Day” strategy is to double down on tariffs while gutting our national scientific institutions and work force that spur U.S. innovation. China’s liberation strategy is to open more research campuses and double down on A.I.-driven innovation to be permanently liberated from Trump’s tariffs.

The article has a weird assumption that AI would drive innovation but offers a scathing critique of the current US government.

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

AI can absolutely increase productivity in manufacturing. Not the generative AI bullshit, but computer vision for any processes that require visual inspection, AI models for some optimization problems like optimally packing hardware IPs on a silicon die, and so on. Specific tasks that can be solved by purpose-built models.

If AI software, hardware and developers are abundant enough, you'd see a lot of integration done by factories all over the place. It seems like China is trying to create this abundance.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 3 weeks ago

I agree, but the article espouses and supports "I will use A.I., even if I don’t know how right now.", which is literally a quote from it.