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OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract

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

#61

Judging from how the DoD currently buys software, lots of money will be spent, many headlines will be written, awards will be handed out, and zero software will make it on to user workstations. End users will continue to use Excel for everything.

Not all software is made public and used in workstations, especially not in military

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

#63

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

NSA is a DOD organization.

> The National Security Agency (NSA) is an intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the director of national intelligence (DNI).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency

> William J. Hartman is a United States Army lieutenant general who has served as the acting commander of United States Cyber Command, director of the National Security Agency,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Hartman

They’re staffed by military people (alongside civilians) and their commander is always military — because much of what they do (abroad) could be construed as acts of war.

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

#65
post #61

Judging from how the DoD currently buys software, lots of money will be spent, many headlines will be written, awards will be handed out, and zero software will make it on to user workstations. End users will continue to use Excel for everything.

Not all software is made public and used in workstations, especially not in military

Would you mind elaborating a bit?

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

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post #28

Isn't this part of the true definition of "AGI" and its all for the benefit of humanity? Or is it that are we finally realizing that we are getting scammed again on these so-called promises and it was all a grift. Maybe we should just wake up.

People are practically irrelevant infants at this point. We are about to repeat the Iraq war, point by point with universal agreement. The same people in charge are recycling the same propaganda, selling the same lies to in many cases quite literally the same people again and it's working, so I don't know why you are expecting anyone to ever "wake up".

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

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post #3

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

Automatically generated, native sounding, propaganda at scale - capable of interacting in real time. This was always the MIC money endgame for LLMs. This is also probably why they are enlisting tech execs from Meta, OpenAI, etc.

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

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post #65
post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not all software is made public and used in workstations, especially not in military

Would you mind elaborating a bit?

“Let’s take another whack at real-time object identification built into night vision goggles.”

(Made-up but plausible example)

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

#70
post #28

Isn't this part of the true definition of "AGI" and its all for the benefit of humanity? Or is it that are we finally realizing that we are getting scammed again on these so-called promises and it was all a grift. Maybe we should just wake up.

On the way to benefit all humanity MS helped Sam back then, and now MS will get to wake up to the real Sam :)

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...

“OpenAI executives have considered accusing Microsoft, the company's major backer, of anticompetitive behavior in their partnership …

OpenAI's effort could involve seeking a federal regulatory review of the terms of its contract with Microsoft for potential violations of antitrust law, as well as a public campaign,…“

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