Donald Trump Holds the Distinction as the Premiere Artificial Intelligence Mishap Commander-In-Chief

“Donald Trump Is the First AI Slop President”

“‘Why should self-driving cars look like anything we’re accustomed to?’ the White House’s gleaming new AI pamphlet wonders (and, implicitly, wants us to wonder). Distilled from 51 pages of sloppy public feedback into a not-quite-10-page-slideshow, the new plan comes across as less of a carefully crafted strategy and more of a half-baked science project scribbled down in the dying minutes before it’s due.”

Ah, the thrill of technological advancement, dressed in the equivalent of a hastily crumpled tuxedo. The lovechild of public fora and government administration has birthed an AI report that seems perplexingly underprepared. It’s as if ‘The Future of Artificial Intelligence’ was forgotten about and then hastily dressed, like a silicon starlet in a wardrobe malfunction, mere ticks before the curtain rise.

As for the expectation of revolutionary design in automated vehicles, it’s more high hopes than a consolidated plan. Perhaps autonomous vehicles will eventually look like floating bubbles, or mimick gigantic roller-skates – the little leaflet doesn’t endow us with any firm expectation. The replete ambiguity, however, does give full rein for imaginative ideas.

The text attempts to cover the overarching ambitions and concerns that have been raised, ranging from the impact of AI on jobs, ethical implications, to precision medicine. Somehow, though, the approach appears to be more scattergun than strategic, more reactive than forward-looking, causing one to feel like navigating through a foggy alley at midnight.

The incongruity between cutting-edge AI and a somewhat underequipped plan borders on irony. Advanced technology demands the conception of incisive and coherent strategies to ascertain positive, ground-breaking changes. A word-soup of jargon and ambiguous objectives, however, tends to waft more of the scent of confusion than clarity.

Injury is added to insult, when the leaflet salutes the ‘American AI Initiative,’ a program that’s yet to prove its existence beyond just a name on paper. An unlaid egg isn’t expected to squawk, so why anticipate initiatives that didn’t yet walk to make a significant impact?

In conclusion, it seems a rush job has left us with a plan that’s more spattered inkblot than a constructed blueprint. The absurdity is amplified, given it’s about a field that’s essentially a harbinger of future developments. Surely, it’s quite reasonable to ask for something more precise, focused, and detailed to guide us into an AI-dominated era, rather than clutching onto a pamphlet that’s more like a faded roadmap in the dense fog of technological advancement.

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