Trump's big announcement yesterday was disappointing to me.

It was an announcement that he's investing $100 billion dollars in "AI Infrastructure."

It disappoints me because "AI Infrastructure" equals "big waste of money" to average people. Nobody, not even Trump, ever explains the significance of AI, just "AI this, and AI that, and $100 billionm for AI."

Here's the part that my little brain does get: AI = development. How can it cost $100 billion to do any sort of development? That isn't explained either.

I am one of Trump's biggest fans, but I am starting to worry about the possibility of him being compromised. He hasn't really fixed anything yet and we're already spending $100 billion on something that I thought was leftist jargon.

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Trump's big announcement yesterday was disappointing to me.

It was an announcement that he's investing $100 billion dollars in "AI Infrastructure."

I think that was already announced sometime last week.

I am one of Trump's biggest fans, but I am starting to worry about the possibility of him being compromised. He hasn't really fixed anything yet and we're already spending $100 billion on something that I thought was leftist jargon.

I don't know about leftist jargon, but it is a term that a lot of
politicians and business management like to throw around because it sounds forward-thinking and futuristic. Unfortunately, I believe only a few
really understand what it is capable of (I do not fully for sure).


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Hello Aaron!

23 Mar 70 22:27, you wrote to all:

Trump's big announcement yesterday was disappointing to me.

It was an announcement that he's investing $100 billion dollars in "AI Infrastructure."

It disappoints me because "AI Infrastructure" equals "big waste of
money" to average people. Nobody, not even Trump, ever explains the significance of AI, just "AI this, and AI that, and $100 billionm for
AI."

Here's the part that my little brain does get: AI = development. How
can it cost $100 billion to do any sort of development? That isn't explained either.

Infrastructure is expensive. Large companies are literally buying nuclear power plants just to power datacenters for generative AI and machine learning.

Training these models uses literal datacenters worth of servers, running 24/7 for months.

generating responses based on the model is not computationally inexpensive either.

I am one of Trump's biggest fans, but I am starting to worry about the possibility of him being compromised. He hasn't really fixed anything
yet and we're already spending $100 billion on something that I
thought was leftist jargon.

Not to mention he's now proven "The party of law and order" is now the "party of attacking police officers is perfectly OK and worthy of a presidential pardon"



Mike


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I am one of Trump's biggest fans, but I am starting to worry about the possibility of him being compromised. He hasn't really fixed anything ye we're already spending $100 billion on something that I thought was left jargon.

I don't know about leftist jargon, but it is a term that a lot of politicians and business management like to throw around because it
sounds forward-thinking and futuristic. Unfortunately, I believe only a few really understand what it is capable of (I do not fully for sure).

You're not alone. I asked a lot of people about AI and nobody knows what its all about. Not even the techiest of people.

While Biden was president I was confident that he was going to make this exact same type of announcement, but now I'm hearing it from my Orange God and I'm feeling a little backstabbed.

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can it cost $100 billion to do any sort of development? That isn't explained either.

Infrastructure is expensive. Large companies are literally buying nuclear power plants just to power datacenters for generative AI and machine learning.

Do you happen to know if it's us (taxpayers) making this investment? I'm not clear as to why Trump made the announcement.

I get what you're saying about AI data centers and their cost. Now we need to figure out if it's worth the cost and whether or not it's at our own expense. Because those details are as convoluted as the significance of AI itself. ):

I am one of Trump's biggest fans, but I am starting to worry about th possibility of him being compromised. He hasn't really fixed anything yet and we're already spending $100 billion on something that I thought was leftist jargon.

Not to mention he's now proven "The party of law and order" is now the "party of attacking police officers is perfectly OK and worthy of a presidential pardon"

Lots of people attack cops though. BLM normalized it. I'm more hurt about Biden commuting the sentences of 2 convicted cop killers.

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On 22 Jan 2025, Mike Miller said the following...

Hello Aaron!

23 Mar 70 22:27, you wrote to all:

Trump's big announcement yesterday was disappointing to me.

It was an announcement that he's investing $100 billion dollars in "AI
Infrastructure."

It disappoints me because "AI Infrastructure" equals "big waste of money" to average people. Nobody, not even Trump, ever explains the significance of AI, just "AI this, and AI that, and $100 billionm for AI."

Then BE somebody to appreciate it, to understand how big this and how beneficial this is to everyone's future.
This is so much more then two letters which is how Kamala Disgusting Harris defined it.

"I think the first part of this issue that should be articulated is AI is kind of a fancy thing," Harris said during the roundtable at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C.

"First of all, it's two letters. It means artificial intelligence, but ultimately what it is, is it's about machine learning.

"And so, the machine is taught and part of the issue here is what information is going into the machine that will then determine and we can predict then, if we think about what information is going in, what then will be produced in
terms of decisions and opinions that may be made through that process."

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It disappoints me because "AI Infrastructure" equals "big waste money" to average people. Nobody, not even Trump, ever explains significance of AI, just "AI this, and AI that, and $100 billion AI."

Then BE somebody to appreciate it, to understand how big this and how beneficial this is to everyone's future.
This is so much more then two letters which is how Kamala Disgusting Harris defined it.

I was wrong about "Trump investing our money" into it. I feel bad for doubting him. Trump is our hero and he was just sharing some good news with us (that 3 rich guys are making the investment.)

"I think the first part of this issue that should be articulated is AI
is kind of a fancy thing," Harris said during the roundtable at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C.

That's funny! She tried to explain it, but she's not an explainy kind of gal. The ability to explain stuff (for her) is also "kind of a fancy thing." :)

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While Biden was president I was confident that he was going to make this exact
same type of announcement, but now I'm hearing it from my Orange God and I'm feeling a little backstabbed.

Think of any politician as a god and you will be quickly disappointed. ;)


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My point is that AI investment doesn't necessairly mean "AI making everyone's lives easier". But it does mean that the process of trying
to make AI good for everyone will cause unknown advancements to happen that certainly will probably everyone.

I talk a lot of trash about it, but for the longest time I couldn't figure out how to make an AJAX login, and Google's AI assistant (or whatever they call it) gave me solid instructions yesterday and I was really impressed. It showed me 2 ways of doing it (XMLHttpRequest and AJAX.)

I tried following peoples' articles on it and they were all crap (mostly) compared to Google's AI advice. I don't know if they realize that this accelerates productivity instead of slowing it down like their web frameworks do.

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I was wrong about "Trump investing our money" into it. I feel bad for doubting him. Trump is our hero and he was just sharing some good news with us (that 3 rich guys are making the investment.)

Even more investment will be coming into the U.S. from the Saudi Crown Prince says kingdom intends to invest Six Hundred Billion in the U.S. during a call w/ Trump.
https://tinyurl.com/nt9pxnmj

I did not read, nor did I see where you ever doubted Trump.
But it is true, construction has begun "big league" located in Abilene, Texas.

"I think the first part of this issue that should be articulated is AI
is kind of a fancy thing," Harris said during the roundtable at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C.

That's funny! She tried to explain it, but she's not an explainy kind of gal. The ability to explain stuff (for her) is also "kind of a fancy thing." :)

Isn't it grand to be unburdened, by what has been?

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Even more investment will be coming into the U.S. from the Saudi Crown Prince says kingdom intends to invest Six Hundred Billion in the U.S. during a call w/ Trump.
https://tinyurl.com/nt9pxnmj

That's excellent. It doesn't say what they're investing in, but they know oil. (Maybe they'll invest in our oil industry.)

That's funny! She tried to explain it, but she's not an explainy kind gal. The ability to explain stuff (for her) is also "kind of a fancy thing." :)

Isn't it grand to be unburdened, by what has been?

That statement finally makes sense now! She's a psychic.

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Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

I talk a lot of trash about it, but for the longest time I couldn't
figure out how to make an AJAX login, and Google's AI assistant (or whatever they call it) gave me solid instructions yesterday and I was really impressed. It showed me 2 ways of doing it (XMLHttpRequest and AJAX.)

The AI "assistant" that we can use at work was garbage and got in the way more than it helped. But it all depends.

AI's are like "idiot savants". I wouldn't ask a medical AI about retirement financial planning, for example. But an AI that's been trained on what "good" Javascript code is would probably do really good with Javascript questions.

But now we are in to AI bias because they have to be told what "good Javascript" is.

I tried following peoples' articles on it and they were all crap
(mostly) compared to Google's AI advice. I don't know if they realize
that this accelerates productivity instead of slowing it down like
their web frameworks do.

They probably do. Most of us developers never reinvent the wheel. We usually take a wheel that someone else has developed, and has shown that it works well, and change it to meet our needs.

Google AI simply repackaged that work.


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Even more investment will be coming into the U.S. from the Saudi Crown Prince says kingdom intends to invest Six Hundred Billion in the U.S. during a call w
Trump.
https://tinyurl.com/nt9pxnmj

Is this to build companies and facilities that the Saudis will own, or a
loan to the US government?

I suppose the former is ok, but not sure how I feel about any foreign government investing money into ours as they will want something in return.


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I tried following peoples' articles on it and they were all crap (mostly) compared to Google's AI advice. I don't know if they realize that this accelerates productivity instead of slowing it down like their web frameworks do.

They probably do. Most of us developers never reinvent the wheel. We usually take a wheel that someone else has developed, and has shown that it works well, and change it to meet our needs.

I'm surprised that Google allows their AI assistant to help people with web development needs. They've put a ton of work into sabotaging productivity (Wordpress, pagespeed insights, search console, AMP pages, PWAs, APKs, Angular, etc.)

They get people playing around with all that crap, just to waste their time under the guise of "improving the user experience" and "making things easier."

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I'm surprised that Google allows their AI assistant to help people with web development needs. They've put a ton of work into sabotaging productivity (Wordpress, pagespeed insights, search console, AMP pages, PWAs, APKs, Angular
etc.)

I am picking up on some vibes that a lot of folks are starting to have
issues with AI because it does just that... tries to "help" them when they don't really want that kind of help. They feel they are being overloaded
or overstimulated by all the extra AI-generated input/results.


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I'm surprised that Google allows their AI assistant to help people with development needs. They've put a ton of work into sabotaging productivit (Wordpress, pagespeed insights, search console, AMP pages, PWAs, APKs, Angular
etc.)

I am picking up on some vibes that a lot of folks are starting to have issues with AI because it does just that... tries to "help" them when
they don't really want that kind of help. They feel they are being overloaded or overstimulated by all the extra AI-generated input/results.

With Google's AI or some other AI implementation?

I get thrilled when I get the opportunity to ask my 2 nerdy IT professional friends about stuff, but they are literally starting to get replaced by AI!

Google used to just give you the "most relevant" search result, but now it gives (mostly) solid advice. I think that's great. (Not great how they collude with the WEF to kill us though.)

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Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

I'm surprised that Google allows their AI assistant to help people with web development needs. They've put a ton of work into sabotaging productivity (Wordpress, pagespeed insights, search console, AMP pages, PWAs, APKs, Angular, etc.)

They get people playing around with all that crap, just to waste their time under the guise of "improving the user experience" and "making
things easier."

So management still hasn't given up on CASE tools (feed in requirements to the system and out comes code).

Remember the the AI assistent is examining your code - which is fed back into the AI to help train the AI.

So think less of "the AI is helping you" and more "the AI is learning from you". And, for the AI "assistents" that I've used, you get to pay for the privilege of teaching the AI how to write code.

Remember Google Rule: If the product is "free", then YOU are the product that they are selling.


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Remember the the AI assistent is examining your code - which is fed back into the AI to help train the AI.

So think less of "the AI is helping you" and more "the AI is learning
from you". And, for the AI "assistents" that I've used, you get to pay for the privilege of teaching the AI how to write code.

Remember Google Rule: If the product is "free", then YOU are the product that they are selling.

That sounds really bad! But it's true. They are learning all about us. Google learns about all our interests, wants, and needs. They're taking inventory on us bigtime. And Facebook is the department that tries to link a photo to everything that Google already knows. (And bing is just the contingency plan for people who don't realize that the 2 companies are working collectively.)

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So think less of "the AI is helping you" and more "the AI is learning from you". And, for the AI "assistents" that I've used, you get to pay for the privilege of teaching the AI how to write code.

That sounds really bad! But it's true. They are learning all about us. Google learns about all our interests, wants, and needs. They're taking inventory on us bigtime. And Facebook is the department that tries to link a photo to everything that Google already knows. (And bing is just the contingency plan for people who don't realize that the 2 companies are working collectively.)

I recently posted an article here, or in CONSPIRCY, about a company getting into trouble (Linkdin) for using users' personal info to train AI.
Companies are desperate not to lose their seats on the AI train and are
willing to do a lot of things in order to stay ahead of the competition.


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