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Tech companies Palantir and Anduril form fellowship for AI adventures
- cmsj 2y agoCould heinous AI companies please stop using names from the sublime Lord of the Rings?
- stevenwoo 2y agoOn the other hand, they make it easy to see them for what they are, they are not going to name themselves after Sauron after all.
- AustinDev 2y agoI don't know if this is a tongue-in-cheek joke but there is an AI security system startup named Sauron. https://www.morningstar.com/news/pr-newswire/20241209ny74705/sauron-launches-worlds-most-advanced-home-security-system https://www.morningstar.com/news/pr-newswire/20241209ny74705...
- etrautmann 2y agoThe article describes all of this
- sleepybrett 2y agoAll of these companies are founded/funded by peter thiel.
- stevenwoo 2y agoI was ignorant, but now am enlightened. I was tempted to use Nazgul instead of Sauron and realize I should have now.
- djaouen 2y agoAre... are we the baddies?!
- rich_sasha 2y agoDoes it integrate with any smart rings?
- mistrial9 2y agobeing a quiet source of inspiration does not pay as well, apparently
- blackeyeblitzar 2y agoI worry about Palantir’s role in unchecked mass surveillance but anduril seems necessary given how wasteful and ineffective the incumbent defense contractors are. Adversaries are going there and mutual escalation seems inevitable.
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- bbqfog 2y agoI'd start here: https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rymy7ret6 https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rymy7ret6
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- anonfordays 2y agoNiceice was looking for an example where Palantir did something heinous, not an example where they did something good and righteous like in your linked source.
- geor9e 2y agoThey should use common words to express that they're defending us all, like a net, in the sky. Netsky or something.
- codr7 2y agoSkyweb maybe?
- handfuloflight 2y agoI'll be back... with more name suggestions.
- fuzzy_biscuit 2y agoAircatcher
- codr7 2y agoI think this is a good direction, less threatening. The cloud?
- petsfed 2y agoI've never made up my mind: Were Peter Thiel et al ignorant of the ethical complexity around the Palantirs, that a sufficiently powerful user could control and distort what other users saw? Or was that part of the sales pitch?
- peterbell_nyc 2y agoYou just made my day - whatever the answer :)
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- bbqfog 2y agoWhat are the open source alternatives to these companies? You know, so we can protect ourselves from them.
- steviedotboston 2y agoyou want an open source alternative to a defense company?
- geor9e 2y agoAre you asking where is Sarah Connor
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- JohnFen 2y agoPalantir is evil enough as it is. Making a Skynet wouldn't be the worst thing they do.
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- codr7 2y agoAll praise our new enthusiastically violent tech companies. I for one don't think moving fast and breaking things is a good approach to weaponized AI, but hey.
- crote 2y agoThose companies have always existed. The main difference is that their PR teams have convinced the press to use the relatively-neutral term "tech company". It's of course a lot less attractive to have a headline like: "Mass surveillance company Palantir and drone vendor Anduril form partnership..." But hey, they use computers, so they are a tech company now! Just like Tesla isn't a car company, so you should totally value their stock like one of those big tech companies doing Magic Cloud Stuff.
- codr7 2y agoThere's also AI, that despite it's failings brings an entirely new meaning to weaponized tech.
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- ducttapecrown 2y agoI like how the article claims that Palantir and Anduril were independently named, as if Palmer Lucky had no clue Palantir existed and what they do.
- mingus88 2y agoAlso a significant number of palantir senior leadership moved over to Andruil years ago. I would imagine this “fellowship” between the two companies has been in place for quite some time already
- xyzzyz 2y agoPalantir senior leadership had not so much moved to Anduril, as it had been founded by them. Three other Anduril cofounders are from Palantir.
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- rich_sasha 2y agoHow much of Palantir's business is regular law enforcement vs intelligence vs other things? Intelligence work is, I would imagine, very dirty work at the best of times, and someone has to do it. My understanding is, what Palantir does there is kind of like CRM for terrorist groups. Not skynet or click-to-bomb software (I have no inside knowledge). Police work doesn't have to be as dirty, not to regular citizens anyway, and I'm not sure how I would feel to be included in a Palantir-enabled all-encompassing pre-crime database.
- asdasdsddd 2y agoIts actually mostly commercial afaik, Foundry is like data pipelines for big corps.
- zhengiszen 2y agoThe same people propup the current genocide taking place in Palestine and the war in Ukraine. Their goal is neverending war with neverending profit at the expense of local populations. Don't invest in amoral enterprises.