AI illiterate Trump plans to win the AI war

President Donald Trump marked the plan's release with a speech where he laid out the stakes of the technological arms race with China, calling it a fight that will define the 21st century.

"America is the country that started the AI race. And as president of the United States, I'm here today to declare that America is going to win it," Trump said.

The plan, which includes some 90 recommendations, calls for the export of US AI software and hardware abroad as well as a crackdown on state laws deemed too restrictive to let it flourish, a marked departure from predecessor Joe Biden's "high fence" approach that limited global access to coveted AI chips....

Michael Kratsios, head of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, told reporters on Wednesday the departments of Commerce and State will partner with the industry to "deliver secure full-stack AI export packages, including hardware models, software applications and standards to America's friends and allies around the world". CNA

The AI Revolution is not something that a nitwit AI illiterate like Trump can appreciate fully, let alone wanting to take charge in this war and to win. So far Trump has been doing everything his little mind came up with to destroy the AI industry, killing the manufacturers of high end chips and chasing away the top AI talents from the USA.

The key elements in a successful AI development are the big manufacturers of the high end chips which include all the top hardware engineers, the top software AI engineers, developers and designers, and the creative talents of innovators to exploit the power of both software and hardware available. Huge financing is a given.

And who is American fighting against in this race? The very people, the talents that Trump and his rogues in Washington are attacking and trying to put down, the Chinese. The top manufacturers of high end chips that are needed in this revolution are Chinese, in America and in China. Big names like TSMC, Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm, SMIC, Huawei are all Chinese, run by top ethnic Chinese engineers. The only exception is ASML. Unfortunately, Trump has been working very hard in his silly and unthinking policies to kill these companies. ASML is a goner by now with China leapfrogging ahead with new chip making processes and machinery. 

AMD, Qualcomm, TSMC and Nvidia are losing their market shares in China and soon in the world. The big squeeze and ban on these companies to sell their products in China have forced China to accelerate in its pursuit to be independent and self sufficiency in high end chips. And China is nearly there. Thanks to the nitwit Trump. Very soon, China will have no need to buy from any of these American based companies. Not only that China will be self sufficient, it will develop better and more advanced chips and flood the world market to out compete against the American based companies.

As for software development and applications, the Chinese talents are among the best and most innovative in this field, both in China and in the US. It is a battle between the Chinese talents in the US and China. With Trump's aggressive racist policies against the Chinese talents in America, many will find it untenable and dangerous to remain in the US and would return to China, to hollow up the talent pool in America. 

Trump can then hope to rely on the second best in the industry, the Indians to compete with the Chinese talents...in both hardware and software developments. Nitwit Trump is declaring himself the winner just when the war is starting. Trump will win by simply bragging and blowing his horns. The verdict is already clear for all to see. Bragging and wishful thinking and bad policies can never win this high tech war that needs real talents, not talents that lie and cheat with words and sophistry.

AI cannot exists in a vaccum. It needs the complements of 5G/6G communication networks. It needs satellites as well. And Beidou system is miles ahead of the ageing American GPS. In these two areas, the Americans are slipping behind by the day, no way of catching up, with all the money spent on wars and paying debt.

And who are the Americans going to sell their overpriced hundreds of billions AI networks to? China? China would be the biggest buyer, with the deep pockets to pay for them. But as usual, the Americans would not want to sell to their biggest customer, China. Neither would China want to buy from the Americans. China will have better and cheaper systems and will be selling to the rest of the world.  

Who then would be there to buy overpriced American AI systems when they can get better and cheaper systems from China, clean and efficient systems, without all the spying and monitoring programmes embedded by the Americans to pose a security risk? And with all the silly and mischievous conditions attached?

The AI War is a war of hard sciences and technical expertise. The winners would not be the smooth talkers without substance. A wrong circuit, a bad circuit, a wrong and badly written software would be a wrong and a very serious mistake that would multiply and bring the whole house down. This is a war of precision engineering and programmes, not wishy washing, a little mistake here and there never mind.  There is no room for a single error, no matter how minor it is.

Modi is the type of talents Trump and his team will be relying on to fight this AI War. All talks of grandeurs, fantasies, the best in the world, but without the real army of talents to make it happened, like in India. Modi is now looking like a proud peacock strutting around in a debris infested slum, with nothing to show except empty promises and bragging rights.

Trade war is not easy to win, even with lies and cheating. The AI War cannot be won by cheating and half baked talents with fake degrees and qualifications. With the nitwits and clowns around him, there is no way that Trump is going to win this war of real talents. Trump can talk and brag like Modi, and win this war with words and lies and misinformation using in the media and twitting.