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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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Post by an0malous »

MOARDONGZPLZ wrote: post #22
an0malous wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would guess it’s for mass surveillance. Even just the ability to extract names and entities from audio, video, and text on every piece of public media would be useful.

DOD doesn’t really do this

Maybe they’d like to start

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

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Post by felixgallo »

ginkgotree wrote: post #11
upghost wrote: post #3

Does anyone have any idea what the DoD could possibly want from OpenAI? Less accurate/more sycophantic missiles?

Yeah, tons. SIGNT / HUMINT analysis. After action report summaries. war gaming to optimize deterrence. human machine teaming. LLM-in-the-loop for warfighters. rapid code gen in field deployments for units to spin up software solutions. The list is endless, imho.

llm-in-the-loop for whatever a 'warfighter' is is basically the opposite of how fighting wars should go.

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

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Post by kube-system »

gxs wrote: post #48

This, this is why I have such an issue with the amount of taxes I pay Not because I’m anti social programs the way people like to immediately assume, but because of dumb shit like this that I have no control over

Honestly, why do you think it is dumb?

I think it is pretty well established that LLMs can be a great time saver when used appropriately. Why wouldn’t you want that productivity gain at the government level?

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

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Post by kube-system »

felixgallo wrote: post #53
ginkgotree wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, tons. SIGNT / HUMINT analysis. After action report summaries. war gaming to optimize deterrence. human machine teaming. LLM-in-the-loop for warfighters. rapid code gen in field deployments for units to spin up software solutions. The list is endless, imho.

llm-in-the-loop for whatever a 'warfighter' is is basically the opposite of how fighting wars should go.

The DoD does plenty of things beyond putting boots on the ground. They’re the world’s largest employer. They have all the same boring problems that any employer has at gigantic scale.

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

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Post by _def »

kube-system wrote: post #54
gxs wrote: post #48

This, this is why I have such an issue with the amount of taxes I pay Not because I’m anti social programs the way people like to immediately assume, but because of dumb shit like this that I have no control over

Honestly, why do you think it is dumb? I think it is pretty well established that LLMs can be a great time saver when used appropriately. Why wouldn’t you want that productivity gain at the government level?

Reading and writing reports when peoples lives are on the line is arguably a hot topic, no?

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

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Post by kube-system »

koakuma-chan wrote: post #35
notesinthefield wrote: post #7

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_

Ain’t nothing more critical than rescue!

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

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Post by kube-system »

_def wrote: post #56
kube-system wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly, why do you think it is dumb? I think it is pretty well established that LLMs can be a great time saver when used appropriately. Why wouldn’t you want that productivity gain at the government level?

Reading and writing reports when peoples lives are on the line is arguably a hot topic, no?

One would imagine that a $200m contract would come with at least some minimal amounts of guidance on best practices. The DoD is not a spring chicken with it comes to automation. They’ve been a perennial early adopter.

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Post by GartzenDeHaes »

ninjin wrote: post #23
Bjorkbat wrote: post #2

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My favourite movie of all time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove The writing and acting is superb and the same goes for the sets and camera work. Come to think of it, the only thing I dislike (and greatly so) is the trailer as it to me profoundly fails to communicate the atmosphere of the movie.

Gen. Ripper is getting some validation now that fluoride is being banned in some places.
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