US Senators want more AI, while Microsoftie Paul Allen wants to use it to save wildlife, etc

Welcome to this week's AI Roundup. It looks live the US government does care about AI, and four Senators are urging the government to use more of it in new legislation. Microsoft had a few announcements at its Ignite conference, and DeepMind is collaborating with Unity for its research. New playground for AI: DeepMind is …

[Pascal Monett]

"Neural networks are only really good at memorising the patterns seen during the training process"

It's a computer blindly following its programming. It is not AI, and slathering it in market-speak and statistical mumbo-jumbo will not make it AI, ever.

[jake]

"US Senators want more AI"

Let 'em have it, I say! It could only help ... Gawd/ess knows their very own in-built NS (Natural Stupidity) ain't helping the country out any.

[Anonymous Coward]

Given the disasters that regularly recur in IT by government, I firmly believe they should be kept out of it. Despite all the hoopla, machine learning isn't AI and, frankly, isn't ready for prime time, especially in anything resembling safety-critical or other life threatening issues. Even financial issues, perhaps especially financial issues can be life threatening when machine learning is applied without absolute assurance that the models and training results in correct behavior. We need less "Black Swans" not more.

[Anonymous Coward]

Blockchain is so last year

What happened to all that "must use blockchain for everything"?

Anybody trying to sell blockchain AI yet? Or even AI with hashtags?

The US government really needs to get with the program...