Original title: the White House held a summit on artificial intelligence, and senior executives such as Google, Amazon and Intel appeared
According to the Washington Post, the US White House will call 34 US technology giants to hold the artificial intelligence (AI) summit, including Amazon, Facebook, Google, Intel and other industry giants. The summit aims to promote the deployment of robotics, algorithms and artificial intelligence technologies.
According to the schedule and draft of the event, the trump administration will discuss with scholars, government officials and AI developers how to promote the application of AI in agriculture, health care and transportation by regulatory means.
The US government attaches great importance to the development of artificial intelligence. The White House released some data earlier this week, which showed that the U.S. government spent more than $2 billion on AI research and development in fiscal 2017. This figure does not include some major R & D expenditures by the Department of defense and other major intelligence agencies.
According to the report, the top executives confirmed to participate in the summit include: Jerome pesenti, vice president of artificial intelligence of Facebook, Rohit Prasad, chief scientist of Amazon's Alexa department, etc. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich is also expected to appear at the meeting.
In addition, representatives from NVIDIA, Oracle, Ford, land O'Lakes, MasterCard, Pfizer and United Airlines are expected to attend the summit.
Many powerful technologies are supported by AI. For example, Uber and Google's Waymo launched their own self driving cars. In addition, there is no lack of AI support behind the voice assistant of smart phones, such as Siri of apple, Google assistant of Google, etc. facial recognition tools on Facebook also use AI technology.
Many experts at the summit also said they would call on the White House to increase investment to help it compete with foreign companies.