Mon. 02/11 - Trump Wants US To Get Serious About AI

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🗓️ 11 February 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The Trump Administration wants America to get serious about AI, Patch is actually profitable, Reddit raises a round, Apple Health for vets and hands on with AR navigation on Google Maps. Sponsors: Tiny.website DataDogHQ.com/ridehome Links: Trump to lay out an AI plan (Axios) US military equipped with tiny spy drones (ZDNet) It’s the Real World—With Google Maps Layered on Top (WSJ) The alternative to your dying local paper is written by one person, a robot, and you (Recode) Reddit raised $300 million at a $3 billion valuation — now it's ready to take on Facebook and Google (CNBC) Driverless delivery startup Nuro gets $940 million SoftBank investment (Reuters) Apple teaming up with US Department of Veterans Affairs to bring digital health records to iPhone (9to5Mac) When Amazon Went From Big to Unbelievably Big (The Atlantic) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meam Ride Home for Monday, February 11th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:09.1	Today, the Trump administration wants America to get serious about AI.
0:14.0	Hatch is actually profitable.
0:16.0	Reddit raises around.
0:18.0	Apple Health for vets and hands on with AR navigation for Google Maps.
0:23.5	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:26.1	At some point between me writing these words
0:31.5	and you hearing them spoken.
0:33.4	President Trump is today expected to sign an executive order called the American AI
0:37.6	Initiative to prioritize federal funding for AI, create resources for
0:41.8	AI researchers, establish AI standards, and much more.
0:46.0	By all accounts, this is a direct response to China's 2017 plan, which I've told you about recently, to create a homegrown AI industry in that country
0:56.6	by 2030, which would make it the world leader in artificial intelligence technology.
1:02.6	If you'll recall when AI's first defeated humans
1:04.8	at the ancient game of Go in May of 2017,
1:08.0	it really shook Chinese society
1:10.1	where Go is exceptionally popular. Some have described it as China's Sputnik moment.
1:17.0	The moment when in the 1950s the Soviet Union beat the United States to become the first to launch a satellite into orbit.
1:23.3	That shock here led to a flood of federal funding
1:27.4	for science and research.
1:29.5	That resulted in putting men on the moon
1:31.6	and the development of the internet among many
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