Nearly three months into President Donald Trump’s term, the future of American AI leadership is in jeopardy. Basically any generative-AI product you have used or heard of—ChatGPT, Claude, AlphaFold, Sora—depends on academic work or was built by university-trained researchers in the industry, and frequently both. Today’s AI boom is fueled by the use of specialized computer-graphics chips to run AI models—a technique pioneered by researchers at Stanford who received funding from the Department of Defense. All of those chatbots? They rely on a training method called “reinforcement learning,” the foundations of which were developed with National Science Foundation (NSF) grants.“I don’t think anybody would seriously claim that these [AI breakthroughs] could have been done if the research universities in the U.S. didn’t exist at the same scale,” Rayid Ghani, a machine-learning researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, told me. But Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency have frozen, canceled, or… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.
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