There's an AI arms race between the West, led by America, and the East, led by China. The Trump presidency's new Stargate initiative hopes to bring about namely-U.S. tech leaders together to pull America AI. to the forefront. Chances are, it's not going to help you as a tech-forward leader. It may actually make things harder for you.
From the New York Times:
President Trump on Tuesday announced a joint venture between OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle to create at least $100 billion in computing infrastructure to power artificial intelligence.
It's a proverbial music supergroup taking the lead singer from one hit band, the drummer from that one group from last decade, and so on. Similarly, this hodgepodge plan will likely fall short of actually serving us, or anyone, more AI insight.
First, you can't make kings cooperate when they're used to having their own fiefdom. It's tough when there is overlap in customer, service, and market share. It's even tougher when there are already power struggles within the individual organizations. Is peacekeeping part of the current U.S. leadership's strengths?
Second, by focusing on the already-big players, it's doubtful that Stargate will help smaller entrepreneurs and businesses. It centralizes AI innovation, not around a particular company or companies, but around the government - an organization that did its first piece of AI legislation barely a year ago. The new administration ironically repealed the legislation right after inauguration day.
Third, in the oddest omen, one would-be member of the supergroup, Elon Musk, is loudly saying that it isn't going to work - in short, because the Stargate funding is all smoke and mirrors. The tech leader closest to the White House isn't even supporting it.
What does this mean for us? Don't plan on the government giving you a clear path towards mastering AI nor knowing how to integrate it well into your broader business plan.
For Onside, we aren't holding our breath for AI to help your business succeed. AI is a leverage tool, not a leadership tool, no matter how much money you put behind it. By leaning on our two proprietary indices, we can show you what your audience needs - often before they even know it. And our human-curated content compass can point your messaging in the right direction.
It is AI-informed insights with human-driven wisdom that puts you in the driver's seat.
And that's something you'll never get from a government office.
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