I suppose the $500 Billion AI infrastructure program just announced can lay to rest all speculations that AGI/ASI is NOT a government directed project.
Why do you think that? Softbank, MS, Oracle, OpenAI etc are not governments, and the press release is not claiming to take any government money. Not to mention, this was to a considerable extent announced a year ago.
I suppose the $500 Billion AI infrastructure program just announced can lay to rest all speculations that AGI/ASI is NOT a government directed project.
Why do you think that? Softbank, MS, Oracle, OpenAI etc are not governments, and the press release is not claiming to take any government money. Not to mention, this was to a considerable extent announced a year ago.
Perhaps.
https://www.politico.eu/article/us-elon-musk-troll-donald-trump-500b-ai-plan/
But Musk responded skeptically to an OpenAI press release that announced funding for the initiative, including an initial investment of $100 billion.
“They don’t actually have the money,” Musk jabbed.
In a follow-up post on his platform X, the social media mogul added, “SoftBank has well under $10B secured. I have that on good authority.”