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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Aaron Thomas wrote to All <=-

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."

That's understandable.

But look at all the money that we pumped into NASA back in the 1960s.

We still don't have vacations on the moon, but not many people realize how many technological advancements came out of the Space Program that greatly impact our society today.

Mylar, WD-40 are a couple of things that jump to mind.

But did you know that it was the Space Program that REALLY pushed microcomputing? The computers we have today wouldn't have existed (at least not at this time) if not for the advancedments pushed by the Space Program.

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.


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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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