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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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The government probably has super advanced AI at this very moment that we won't see for decades (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Looks like I showed up late to the Internet correction party but: it’s unlikely.

With some historical exceptions, like USPS character recognition and China’s crowd scanning, today’s governments don’t have anywhere near the resources necessary to compete with big tech in current ML outside niche subdomains.

Governments do fund AI research (my funding is mostly from dept of defense) but Cold War era project scale is long gone, as best we can tell.