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OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract

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Re: OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract

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So much for humanity’s greater good Sam.

Depending on your political views it may be good if it helps USA keeping its military edge over China and preventing China from invading Taiwan.

There's invasions going on right now that aren't being prevented, no need for theoretical ones.

Re: OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract

#93
$200M is very small when it comes to the world of US defense. Combined with this being formally labeled as a pilot, this can be safely ignored until they reach IOC.

Though what this signals is a change in strategic direction regarding autonomous capability. While they won't be rigging an LLM onto a drone, there are many cyber and administrative problem spaces that exist in defense that AI products could meaningfully address.

Re: OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract

#94
Despite what every AI exec will say publicly, I'm pretty sure they're salivating at the prospect of war/defense related applications of AI. There's just too much money floating around in the military industrial complex for them to ignore. This is doubly so if the "business" part of your AI company is about as solid as a fart in the wind.

Re: OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract

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post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would you mind elaborating a bit?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai... If the physical disconnect between killing a person (e.g. UAVs) wasn't enough to make that task easier then further offloading the decision of who to target might help.

> If the physical disconnect between killing a person (e.g. UAVs) wasn't enough to make that task easier then further offloading the decision of who to target might help

The physical disconnect hypothesis isn't really borne out by the lack of concern for collateral damage in pre-firearm warfare, when killing was mostly done face to face, compared to today.

Re: OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract

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$200M is very small when it comes to the world of US defense. Combined with this being formally labeled as a pilot, this can be safely ignored until they reach IOC. Though what this signals is a change in strategic direction regarding autonomous capability. While they won't be rigging an LLM onto a drone, there are many cyber and administrative problem spaces that exist in defense that AI products could meaningfully…

> While they won't be rigging an LLM onto a drone

You say that very confidently, but I’m extremely skeptical of that being an actual limit.

Re: OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract

#98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“National security challenges” is incredibly broad, providing the right size of boots to USCG rescue swimmers could be considered a national security challenge.

it says _critical_

Trenchfoot was a substantial source of casualties in WW1, and looking after your feet is a top priority for every military force in the field.

Re: OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract

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directly hooking up the AI to the nuclear button is which chapter of the dont build the torment nexus book

Isn’t that the Department of Energy that does that, not DoD?

DoD would be involved in actual deployment of nukes, I would expect.

Re: OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract

#100
Stop shooting at me, damn it, I'm Sam Altman!

Of course, that was an error on my part. I should only be shooting at other people and actually not in the part of the city at all, it's definitely a mistake on my part and I will rectify immediately. Thank you again for pointing it out to me!

You're still shooting at me!

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