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The article references Hugo Gernsback - and one of the best literary criticisms of the techno-optimist utopia ideal can be found in William Gibson's short stor
by photochemsyn 3y ago
The article references Hugo Gernsback - and one of the best literary criticisms of the techno-optimist utopia ideal can be found in William Gibson's short story, "The Gernsback Continuum".
As far as the 'ideological divide' at OpenAI, the fact that they're all silent about the military contracting arm of their partner Microsoft as well as potential applications of LLMs to the military arena should be proof enough that their 'do-gooder' PR operation is nothing more than a branding and marketing game.
I suppose you could argue that military dominance of the planet in the name of do-gooder agendas is just what we need, but that's always been little more than a justification for robbery of others, ever since the dawn of recorded history.
- c54 3y agoWhat’re some of the military applications of LLMs?
- KineticLensman 3y agoInfluence ops, propaganda, etc
- onemoresoop 3y agoPropaganda - now any language on earth. Coming soon - personalized with the voice of your loved ones, voice application are currently happily harvesting.
- kombookcha 3y agoI strongly feel that this is where the really destructive potential of military LLM applications lies. We've already seen examples of faked images, voice clips and videos being disseminated of prominent political figures. It's not difficult to imagine a well planned disinfo attack could paralyse or misdirect the political apparatus and public sentiment of a state during some critical moment in time (IE, during a coup attempt or invasion). Everyone might be able to work out which snippets of media were true and which were not in a few days, but if it happens during a crisis point the loss of time and momentum could be catastrophic.
- wolverine876 3y agoOne high priority for the military has been using AIs to analyze massive volumes of data. A common example is analyzing satellite photos for interesting objects. They say the want to output a shortlist to aid human decision-making, but of course they might decide to skip that step.
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- Qwertious 3y agoAIUI, a Javelin missile ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FGM-148_Javelin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FGM-148_Javelin ) works by pointing its camera at your target and holding it in-frame there for a few seconds while the missile learns what your target looks like well enough to home in on it once launched. I imagine the Pentagon would pay billions for an LLM that could shave a couple of seconds off that target-acquisition time.