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From the ai.mil blog post linked in the article: >GAMECHANGER is an AI-enabled policy Natural Language Process (NLP) search capability and centralized document

From the ai.mil blog post linked in the article: >GAMECHANGER is an AI-enabled policy Natural Language Process (NLP) search capability and centralized document repository for the Department of Defense (DoD) I am all for uncritically bashing on the burning money pit known as the Department of Defense, but from this description I do not get the sense that this is some cutting edge LLM type AI tool, nor does its existence seem controversial. If anything, I'm surprised to learn that the DoD did not previously have a searchable, centralized document repository prior to 2018. Am I missing something?

uoaei 3y ago
It kinda sounds like yet another ChatGPT wrapper, but for the DoD, maybe with some fine-tuning to the database specifically. Microsoft has a cozy relationship with the Pentagon and IIRC they just switched all their cloud infra to Azure so it's not unreasonable to think it's LLM-based. I'm not as deep in the NLP space as some people so maybe neural text search really did improve a lot the past few years but when I was more involved it was not really as successful as it should have been given all the hype at the time. (Probably it's still not, but may be a marginal improvement despite it being an obvious cash grab for a private contractor somewhere.) TBH I mostly responded because I am really curious about your username: what inspired it? TOoCitBotBM (if you can parse that) was a foundational book for me in my mental model of the world I live in.
- notjulianjaynes 3y ago
  Sorry to burst your bubble here but there's no special meaning to my username. Whenever I created this account I was trying to think of a psudonymous name and I just happened to have The Origins of Consciousness... sitting on my desk. I should probably change usernames and also finish reading that book someday, haha.

uoaei 3y ago

It kinda sounds like yet another ChatGPT wrapper, but for the DoD, maybe with some fine-tuning to the database specifically. Microsoft has a cozy relationship with the Pentagon and IIRC they just switched all their cloud infra to Azure so it's not unreasonable to think it's LLM-based. I'm not as deep in the NLP space as some people so maybe neural text search really did improve a lot the past few years but when I was more involved it was not really as successful as it should have been given all the hype at the time. (Probably it's still not, but may be a marginal improvement despite it being an obvious cash grab for a private contractor somewhere.) TBH I mostly responded because I am really curious about your username: what inspired it? TOoCitBotBM (if you can parse that) was a foundational book for me in my mental model of the world I live in.

notjulianjaynes 3y ago
Sorry to burst your bubble here but there's no special meaning to my username. Whenever I created this account I was trying to think of a psudonymous name and I just happened to have The Origins of Consciousness... sitting on my desk. I should probably change usernames and also finish reading that book someday, haha.