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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
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.
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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."
That should shore up their financials given their.. checks notes $12B in operational costs. /s Hope it's worth it.
I suspect the capital class would throw good money after bad to make AI viable especially since a lot of the costs are fixed in nature (i.e. in training runs, not per query).
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.
It's more likely China's next gen aircraft one should be wary of, than their AI. (as previewed in recent Indian Pakistani air engagements)
i really see this so-called AI race as a bullet to be dodged; a bubble to be waited out. it has been relentlessly pushed from on top, and we always find really pushy FOMO as the main driver.
I'm not impressed by non deterministic mechanisms that undo the zero overhead advantages hard won by decades of automation. this is not a CAD tool amplifying and articulating human intentions, but a vague floppy jelly blob of "i wonder what will come out"
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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.
Good luck to Elon Musk for his trial for the open-source-ness of the organization.
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Not all software is made public and used in workstations, especially not in military
Would you mind elaborating a bit?
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.