This is what they should do in response to the WH request.
He's probably taking a cue from someone who might say something like this:
"The best people, the smartest people, are known. That kind of intelligence is needed to make America great. The economy and the stock market are all about being smart, having an incredible brain. I can tell you, there's a great brain, a tremendous brain. Everybody knows it, everybody says it. And you know, I went to the best schools, and was a very smart person. So we're going to keep bringing in smart people, the smartest people, to get things done, and make America win again. Nobody does it better, believe me. Nobody."
(This is an amusing AI fabrication.)
Why do people keep pretending like LLMs are smarter than people or are soon going to be?
Irrational fear of AI.
No, it's what tech leaders such as Zuckerberg have been stating publicly. It's why they're making predictions of AI taking over jobs.
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