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Probably disappointed that his classical approach to NLP was never capable enough to attract any such government involvement.

Chomsky does not work and has never worked on NLP.

That's a bit pedantic. His work on grammars had obvious direct applications in NLP even if he didn't "get his hands dirty" doing that himself.

Re: US AI Action Plan

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Obviously AI is a massive and important area for economic growth. But so is clean energy. And both right now are at an inflection point. It seems the US is going to thrive with the former but naively stick our heads in the sands with the latter. We’ll cede economic leadership, and wonder in 20 years what happened as other countries lead in energy. Even worse, the administrations stance will encourage US energy compan…

Trump has signed a number of bills aimed at ramping up the nuclear center, which is the best-available renewable energy source based on current tech, aside from geothermal, assuming recent developments continue to pan out.

The only country that the US needs to worry about beating them in the clean energy race is China. They’re building energy plants like crazy (though worth noting, not all of their plants are clean energy).

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