President Donald Trump has issued a new executive order that “Mission Genesis“, an AI-focused initiative led by the Department of Energy. According to the DOE, it will “leverage the current revolution in artificial intelligence and advanced computing to double the productivity and impact of American science and engineering within a decade.” explain. One of the mission’s main goals is to create a central platform with a large collection of datasets collected “over decades of federal investment,” as well as datasets from academic institutions and private sector partners.
These datasets will then be used to train basic scientific models and create artificial intelligence agents, automate research workflows and accelerate scientific progress, the government said in its statement. “The platform will connect the world’s best supercomputers, next-generation artificial intelligence systems and quantum systems with the country’s most advanced scientific instruments,” the energy ministry said.
According to that claim, the platform will connect to the two state-of-the-art AI supercomputers the agency is building at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, its famed research and development center. The machines Hewlett Packard Enterprises will build will be the flagship supercomputers in Trump’s AI roadmap. The Department of Energy previously announced that the machines would be powered by AMD chips and help solve the biggest challenges in energy, medicine, healthcare and national security.
“The Genesis mission marks a defining moment in the next era of American science. We are connecting the nation’s most advanced facilities, data and computers in a closed system to create a scientific instrument for the ages, a discovery machine that will double the productivity of research and development and solve challenges previously thought impossible,” said Dr. Darío Gil, Genesis Mission Undersecretary and Director of the Genesis Mission.
Over the next four months, the Department of Energy will need to identify initial data and modeling sources for the Genesis platform. The ministry must be able to demonstrate “the initial operational capability of the platform for at least one of the national scientific and technological challenges identified by the government” within nine months. Although the list of challenges is quite long, the Genesis quest will focus on completing a total of three main challenges. First, it aims to accelerate nuclear and fusion energy and modernize the energy network through artificial intelligence. The goal is also to promote scientific discoveries in the coming decades. Ultimately, their goal is to develop advanced artificial intelligence technology for national security purposes, such as systems that can ensure the reliability of US nuclear weapons and accelerate the development of defense equipment.
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