Inside a vast data center on the outskirts of Chicago, the most powerful supercomputer in the world is coming to life. Called Aurora, the supercomputer’s high-performance capabilities will be matched with the latest advances in artificial intelligence. Together they will be used by scientists researching cancer, nuclear fusion, vaccines, climate change, encryption, cosmology and other complex sciences and technologies.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
By all means we should build a Chinese controlled battery factory 30 miles away from the largest super computer in the world.