• emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works
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    4 hours ago

    Amazon/Bezos is probably getting some sweet federal kick backs

    I think it’s more a threat against employees. The robots can be used as scabs.

    which, until Jan. 2025, was one area that the U.S. had unquestionably dominated China

    China had more scientists and papers well before this year. And China dominates particularly in fields like maths, computer science and manufacturing.

    they are indeed going to try to replace scientists with robots

    I can actually think of a lot of uses for robots in research. And, of course, there are a lot of robots in labs already; they just don’t look like humans.

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      3 hours ago

      More scientists and data, but research quality in China has been very poor for quite some time, hence a lot of questions and concerns regarding methods, data collection, and number of retracted articles.

      The entire idea of the “China virus” and the Trump/Republicans lab leak/attack on NIH funding to EcoHealth, and their collaboration with Wuhan Institute of Virology, hinged on pointing out the lack of lab safety standards in China that wouldn’t have allowed the research to occur here.

      On the flip side, now that Trump is in power, OSTP is focused on removing regulations to science and tech bc they argue they are slowing us down in the AI race against China.

      Kinda seems like a load of BS especially considering AI data in China is very poor likely bc of the lack of regulations

      https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/8/9/china-wrestles-with-quantity-over-quality-in-generative-ai-patents