"The New York Post breathlessly reports that First Lady Melania Trump has a new official project: leading the Presidential Artificial Intelligence Challenge. The Post says that, for the challenge, K-12 student teams will use AI tools like large language models (LLMs) and neural networks to "solve a community problem" by creating an app or a website. State and national winners will be announced next year."
""The Presidential AI Challenge marks our first step in equipping every child with the knowledge base and tools to utilize this emerging technology," Trump told the Post. "It is essential that every member of our academic community, including our great educators, administrators, and students rise to this historic challenge with on-going curiosity, perseverance, and ingenuity.""
"McIver, who identified herself as an "in-house staff writer at the Trump Organization" and also "a longtime friend and admirer" of the Trumps, explained Wednesday, "In working with Melania Trump on her recent First Lady speech, we discussed many people who inspired her and messages she wanted to share with the American people." Notably, McIver said Mrs. Trump had identified that "a person she has always liked is Michelle Obama." "Over the phone, she read me some passages from Mrs. Obama's spee"
First Lady Melania Trump will lead the Presidential Artificial Intelligence Challenge, a program for K-12 student teams to use AI tools such as large language models and neural networks to create apps or websites that solve community problems. State and national winners will be announced next year. Trump said the challenge intends to equip every child with the knowledge base and tools to utilize emerging technology and urged educators, administrators, and students to rise to the challenge with curiosity, perseverance, and ingenuity. Observers note that large language models scrape existing writing and face copyright lawsuits, and the initiative recalls Melania Trump's 2016 speech similarities to Michelle Obama.
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