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Does anyone have any idea what the DoD could possibly want from OpenAI? Less accurate/more sycophantic missiles?
by upghost 1y ago
Does anyone have any idea what the DoD could possibly want from OpenAI? Less accurate/more sycophantic missiles?
- 01100011 1y agoYou realize that the DoD has a huge amount of normal business work like logistics, project management, people management, benefits management, etc? Right?
- rkagerer 1y agoI suspect it's more than that. “Under this award, the performer will develop prototype frontier AI capabilities to address critical national security challenges in both warfighting and enterprise domains,” the Defense Department said.
- notesinthefield 1y ago“National security challenges” is incredibly broad, providing the right size of boots to USCG rescue swimmers could be considered a national security challenge.
- koakuma-chan 1y agoit says _critical_
- kube-system 1y agoAin’t nothing more critical than rescue!
- XorNot 1y agoTrenchfoot was a substantial source of casualties in WW1, and looking after your feet is a top priority for every military force in the field.
- guywithahat 1y agoKnowing the DoD, I bet it's not. I bet they just want their own secure servers or some sort of corporate data/encryption management, and they're willing to pay out the nose to not have to use asksage or some terrible DoD friendly clone
- dmd 1y agoThe United States Military (Waterhouse has decided) is first and foremost an unfathomable network of typists and file clerks, secondarily a stupendous mechanism for moving stuff from one part of the world to another, and last and least a fighting organization. —Cryptonomicon
- notesinthefield 1y agoSome 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 uses AI for the US gov is doing the same. Cant directly speak to targeting but you can bet your ass there are 100 different offensive projects trying to integrate AI into ISR work and the like.
- pests 1y agoPlanatir 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.
- greenavocado 1y agoPalantir is the poster child for a global panopticon
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- ginkgotree 1y agoYeah, 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.
- felixgallo 1y agollm-in-the-loop for whatever a 'warfighter' is is basically the opposite of how fighting wars should go.
- kube-system 1y agoThe 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.
- ginkgotree 1y agoYep, pretty much.
- ginkgotree 1y agowhy? 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."
- ringeryless 1y ago"help" (botch the job)
- Xss3 1y agoMore like hey, ai, sit here watching uav and security camera footage from 10,000 feeds and flag short clips for human review if you think they show military activity.
- an0malous 1y agoI would guess it’s for mass surveillance. Even just the ability to extract names and entities from audio, video, and text on every piece of public media would be useful.
- MOARDONGZPLZ 1y agoDOD doesn’t really do this
- stonogo 1y agoOnly because they currently contract it out to Palantir (at least the bits that NSA isn't handling)
- MOARDONGZPLZ 1y agoNews to me. I can’t find any details though. Can you share your source?
- stonogo 1y agohttps://investors.palantir.com/news-details/2024/Palantir-Expands-Maven-Smart-System-AIML-Capabilities-to-Military-Services/ https://investors.palantir.com/news-details/2024/Palantir-Ex...
- an0malous 1y agoMaybe they’d like to start
- zmgsabst 1y agoNSA is a DOD organization. > The National Security Agency (NSA) is an intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the director of national intelligence (DNI). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency > William J. Hartman is a United States Army lieutenant general who has served as the acting commander of United States Cyber Command, director of the National Security Agency, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Hartman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Hartman They’re staffed by military people (alongside civilians) and their commander is always military — because much of what they do (abroad) could be construed as acts of war.
- LightBug1 1y agoOne AI per person ...
- SunlitCat 1y agoNice ad slogan! One AI per person One voice. One vision. One AI - for you.
- m3kw9 1y agoSycophantic missiles would be desirable
- mosura 1y agoAI explosives with personalities feature in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Star_(film) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Star_(film)
- SunlitCat 1y agoWow, it was like forever ago that i've seen that movie. Didn't realize it was meant as a comedy!
- gilgoomesh 1y agoChatGPT, do you know where the General left his keys?
- impulser_ 1y agoYou will be surprise how much work at the DoD has nothing to do with weapons.
- ringeryless 1y agowhich also can be botched
- munificent 1y ago1. Secretary of Defense feels like bombing some place. Asks aide to write a report on, justification, logistics, and consequences. 2. Aide tells subordinate to write report. 3. Subordinate uses ChatGPT to write the 100-page report. Sends it to aide. 4. Aide uses ChatGPT to summarize report. Sends summary to SecDef. 5. SecDef accidentally posts summary on publicly-accessible social media page, then forwards to President. 6. Bombs go boom.
- reginald78 1y agoAfterwards some or all of the accountability for the taken action is transferred to the amorphous entity known as AI.
- avgDev 1y agoNone of the sources check out. "We did our best, but sometimes these tools get it wrong." -politician after achieving their goal
- paxys 1y ago> “This contract, with a $200 million ceiling, will bring OpenAI’s industry-leading expertise to help the Defense Department identify and prototype how frontier AI can transform its administrative operations, from improving how service members and their families get health care, to streamlining how they look at program and acquisition data, to supporting proactive cyber defense,” Translated - they'll hand out GPT access to a bunch of service members and administrators. Except the UI will have a big DoD logo and words like "SECURE" and "CLASSIFIED" will be displayed on it a few dozen times.
- piyushpr134 1y agoAn on premise deployment ?
- somenameforme 1y agoAutomatically 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.
- jasonfrost 1y agoEasy PT plans
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- SunlitCat 1y agoNot that the bomb answers: "I am sorry Dave, i can't do that!"
- Bender 1y agoTo attempt to make sense of all my after action reports? kidding Maybe one potential use could be to drink from the firehose of data and then try to create summary bullet-point reports for the higher ups instead of relying on data filtering up the chain of command in the old game of telephone. At least that is what I would use if for. Getting that data in nearly real-time in an accurate presentation would be priceless. I do not have the slightest idea how they will secure all this data if going to a 3rd party like OpenAI unless they have their own self hosted version of it on their own mainframes. If that data is going to live in a 3rd party they need to secure their systems in a magical way systems has never been secured. They would have to cast some seriously powerful protection spells.
- nonameiguess 1y agoNo. People see "defense" and immediately think everything is a weapon, for some reason. The DoD is still an organization with exactly the same business functions as wherever you work. This is likely going to be something more or less like the ChatGPT for Gov thing. You ask it to summarize videos and articles, review a document you're writing, spruce it up, whatever the rest of you are doing with LLMs, but you're allowed to use it from a locked down DoD workstation that can't access public web services.