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I mean, I think the policy is whatever the president wants to do at the time.
Okay, well, that's up.
Why do you keep doing that?
I don't know.
Welcome back to The Daily Show.
Artificial intelligence might enslave the entire human race, but what if it did something even worse?
Ronny Chieng has more.
America is spending hundreds of billions of dollars on AI infrastructure.
Wait, why are we spending hundreds of billions of dollars on AI infrastructure?
Ah, dammit, I'm gonna have to talk to some nerd about this, aren't I?
like Peter Wilderford of the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy.
I've used AI.
Did I ejaculate?
Yes.
Was it the best sex thing ever?
Not really.
So what's the big deal about it?
That's right, the Manhattan Project, the four-year program where the US spent the equivalent of $37 billion in today's dollars to build a working nuclear bomb.
all in an attempt to finally defeat Barbie once and for all.
So why is the AI infrastructure build-out costing ten times that?