US Big Tech wants to eliminate the federal government administered by humans, and replace it with AI. Amid all the talk that has generated one aspect has gone relatively unreported. None of the AI they want to replace the humans with actually works.
AI is still plagued by widespread simple and basic errors in reasoning. Furthermore, there is no path to fixing this problem. Tinkering with training data has provided some improvements, but it has not fixed the fundamental problem. AI lacks the ability to independently reason.
‘Move fast and break things’ has always been a Silicon Valley mantra. It seems increasingly that is the way the basic functions of administering the US state will be run too.
Of course. It’s a junk product, so they can’t count on the lucrative corporate contracts they were hoping for. So they’re angling for lucrative government contracts instead, since landing those doesn’t require a quality product - it just requires bribing the right officials.