200 millimetres? That's not a lot.
No, it’s 200 millimeter-dollars. Much different unit.
Anthropic signs a $200M deal with the Department of Defense
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#12They are using our satellites against us!
Who are “us”?
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#13Is this those ethics and safety they were talking about?
What's unethical about selling to DoD?
Do you really not know? It's a difficult question to answer in an HN thread, because on one hand, it requires a review of the history of empire and war profiteering. But on the other hand, it's just obvious to the point of being difficult to even articulate.
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#14When people ask "how do we fix our government?"
I answer "Did you try turning it off and on again?"
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#15Great news! Congrats to Anthropic! I like to see big tech engage with the govt and military.
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#16200 millimetres? That's not a lot.
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#17Re: Anthropic signs a $200M deal with the Department of Defense
#18LLMs are a key enabling technology to extract real insights from the enormous amount of surveillance data the USA captures. I think it's not an understatement to say we are entering a new era here! Previously, the data may have been collected, but there was so much that effectively, on average no one was "looking" at it. Now it can all be looked at.
If you think about LLMs as new types of databases, it's quite obvious that they'll start winning over many types of legacy systems.
They ingest unstructured data, they have a natural query language, and they compress the data down into manageable sizes.
They might hallucinate, but there are mechanisms for dealing with that.
These won't destroy actual systems of record, but they will obsolete quite a lot of ingestion and search tools.
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#19LLMs are a key enabling technology to extract real insights from the enormous amount of surveillance data the USA captures. I think it's not an understatement to say we are entering a new era here! Previously, the data may have been collected, but there was so much that effectively, on average no one was "looking" at it. Now it can all be looked at.
I remember when PRISM was spooky. This is gonna be something else!
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#20As someone whose has been part of a company that has "signed" one of these large deals before, let me tell you that it doesn't mean the DoD is giving these companies $200M. If one of the companies is wildly successful, sure. But none of it is guaranteed money and the initial budget is likely 10-100x smaller than the cap.