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by TacticalCoder 580 days ago
"born secret", maybe. But by a US government program? Lately besides corruption and inefficiencies, the government didn't have much to show. NASA go trounced hard by SpaceX.

The Kamala "broadband" project did cost $42 billion to taxpayers and not one home has been connected with this new program. In nearly four years. Zero. Meanwhile StarLink is actually connecting people.

Be it NVidia, OpenAI, Meta, Google, etc. all the models are coming from private companies. The government metastasized and seems to be unable to do anything besides create more pointless public servants.

They could spent 1 trillion on this (what's 1 trillion when you spent $42 billion to not connect a single home to broadband? and what's a trillion when you're already 36 trillion in debt), I still don't think the US goverment could beat private companies. Too much bureaucracy. Too many people with the sole goal of making the government ever bigger.

Now on a positive note (I guess), I'll grant everybody that it's even less likely that AGI would from the EU bureaucracy.

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> The Kamala "broadband" project did cost $42 billion to taxpayers

It didn't, the money has not been spent yet.

Don't let facts get in the way. GP was just trying to be inflammatory and you are here ruining everything.