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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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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

just giving the whole DoD chatgpt that's deployed in their servers would be pretty useful i guess for them?

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

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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.

why? it could help them asses threats, civilians / avoid collateral damage. Like any weapon or technology, it depends on its use. warfighter is the modern industry / academic term used for "soldier."

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yep, pretty much.

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

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

Some of the more popular models (NIPRGPT, the various DREN models) are “soft banned” and DoD is in need of a unified solution. MSFT’s GCC HIGH and GovCloud implementations have been slow to materialize. But more to your point - everyone is using LLM’s to pick up the slack from layoffs. Im sitting in meetings and watching my gov customers generate documentation and proposals everyday. Everything the commercial world u…

Planatir has an older demo of their chat like interface showcasing targeting selection, battle plans and formations, other advice. Kind of creepy, I assume it’s much more capable now.

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

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You guys have no idea how many DoD man-hours are spent on jobs like

"add up all the item counts in the inventory report and send a weekly email"

Yes maybe OpenAI is developing killer drones or maybe (imo likely) it's licensing a FedRAMP complaint AI for normal business work.

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

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You guys have no idea how many DoD man-hours are spent on jobs like "add up all the item counts in the inventory report and send a weekly email" Yes maybe OpenAI is developing killer drones or maybe (imo likely) it's licensing a FedRAMP complaint AI for normal business work.

You don’t need AI to complain about FedRAMP

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

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post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some of the more popular models (NIPRGPT, the various DREN models) are “soft banned” and DoD is in need of a unified solution. MSFT’s GCC HIGH and GovCloud implementations have been slow to materialize. But more to your point - everyone is using LLM’s to pick up the slack from layoffs. Im sitting in meetings and watching my gov customers generate documentation and proposals everyday. Everything the commercial world u…

Planatir has an older demo of their chat like interface showcasing targeting selection, battle plans and formations, other advice. Kind of creepy, I assume it’s much more capable now.

Palantir is the poster child for a global panopticon
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