US Presidents are known to dream big. It was John F. Kennedy who set America on a course to reach the moon. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan was laughed at when he first mentioned a Strategic Defense Initiative. The American press dubbed it “Star Wars” and mocked the idea. One day after his inauguration, President Donald Trump set the nation on a new project named Stargate – an artificial intelligence infrastructure that will “create hundreds of thousands of American jobs and generate massive economic benefit for the entire world,” according to OpenAI.com. But best of all, one of the principals in the project, the founder of Oracle, Larry Ellison, claims the new technology will be able to create a vaccine for cancer. Is there any merit to such a brazen prediction, or is it merely pie in the sky?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is beyond the dream…
