The AGI Manhattan Project Recommendation
Description
A cropped PDF page headed "THE COMMISSION'S 2024 KEY RECOMMENDATIONS" shows a highlighted recommendation from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission's 2024 report. The highlighted text says Congress should "establish and fund a Manhattan Project-like program dedicated to racing to and acquiring an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) capability," defining AGI as systems as good as or better than humans across cognitive domains that would "usurp the sharpest human minds at every task." Visible bullets below recommend multiyear contracting authority and funding for artificial intelligence, cloud, and data center companies, plus a Defense Priorities and Allocation System "DX Rating" for AI ecosystem items. The meme appeal is the ominous policy-document absurdity of treating AGI like a national crash program with procurement language attached.
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Nothing says careful AGI governance like naming your roadmap after the project famous for shipping a physics demo straight to production.
sounds kinda horrible Comment deleted
Nah, it will draw huena porn with Cammala Haris, while you, human, will go on war and die Comment deleted
what the fuck Comment deleted
"Manhattan Project-like" what times are they think they're living in, the cold war? Comment deleted
more like lukewarm war Comment deleted
Step aside, nukes, the new idol to worship is on its way Comment deleted
They are literally going for "lets make a do-everything button" as a national priority, and they haven't even rewrote all their C code into rust via LLMs yet Comment deleted
They won't succeed in making an aligned AGI. What they will make instead will be far, far worse Comment deleted
I'm optimistic. It will be very, very funny Comment deleted
good for you, i guess Comment deleted
They won't make anything capable with their current approaches, there will be no use for the alignment Comment deleted
I'm nervous about what they will try to make with the current approaches Comment deleted
How will they try to fix them? Give the network more power than a city? Run it on botnets? Give it unlimited access to the internet? Comment deleted
I mean, by the paradigm shift from the universal approximation theorem, not by letting it on reddit. Thats hard, though, and they already invested too much in the multilinear hardware Comment deleted
They will certainly hook up the atomic plant to the huge room with a lot of graphic cards. It will be a waste of energy the likes of which was never seen before. Anything else - doubt it. Comment deleted
I sure hope so Comment deleted
but I've lost too much faith in humanity Comment deleted
people don't like to admit defeat Comment deleted
Thats why it will be very funny Comment deleted
c? what about cobol?) Comment deleted
Well, they still hope to lure the young there instead :) Cobol is like proto-java, why would the goverment care about the tech stack of kinda-civilian industry? C is another story, they already made their bet on Rust and mEmOrY SaFeTy and sTrOnG TyPiNg Comment deleted
I was laughing for a long time when I saw the logo for Ada with its "In strong typing we trust", like, how obvious can you get Comment deleted
I mean, Ada has contracts, so that's something Comment deleted
I prefer Eiffel for this Comment deleted
I love wasting taxpayer money Comment deleted
What do they hope to accomplish here, and why is an AGI necessary for it? Comment deleted