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$200M is very small when it comes to the world of US defense. Combined with this being formally labeled as a pilot, this can be safely ignored until they reach

$200M is very small when it comes to the world of US defense. Combined with this being formally labeled as a pilot, this can be safely ignored until they reach IOC. Though what this signals is a change in strategic direction regarding autonomous capability. While they won't be rigging an LLM onto a drone, there are many cyber and administrative problem spaces that exist in defense that AI products could meaningfully address.

Aeolun 1y ago
> While they won't be rigging an LLM onto a drone You say that very confidently, but I’m extremely skeptical of that being an actual limit.
optimalsolver 1y ago
>IOC Immediate or cancel?
- JohnKemeny 1y ago
  Initial operating capability or initial operational capability (IOC) is the state achieved when a capability is available in its minimum usefully deployable form. The term is often used in government or military procurement. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_operating_capability https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_operating_capability
  - medstrom 1y ago
    So MVP (minimum viable product).
    - smcin 1y ago
      The DoD equivalent of MVP, that is.
    - xpe 1y ago
      Initial Operating Capability (IOC) is notably different from how many people think of Minimum Viable Product (MVP). From the Wikipedia page on IOC: > "In general, attained when some units and/or organizations in the force structure scheduled to receive a system have received it and have the ability to employ and maintain it." Contrast with these quotes from [1]: > I have long defined minimum viable product as the smallest possible product that has three critical characteristics: people choose to use it or buy it; people can figure out how to use it; and we can deliver it when we need it with the resources available – also known as valuable, usable and feasible. > I love the concept popularized by Eric Ries of the smallest possible experiment to test a specific hypothesis, but I refer to that that as an “MVP Test” so that people don’t confuse an experiment with a product. [1]: https://www.svpg.com/minimum-viable-product/ https://www.svpg.com/minimum-viable-product/
- yieldcrv 1y ago
  found the trader
egorfine 1y ago
> until they reach IOC Imagine seriously using GPT-2 today. That's why government jobs are safe: it's long obsolete by the time it's IOC.
Bender 1y ago
One need not add LLMs to a drone. Language models not required. The US have had fully autonomous drones for quite some time. These drones already play on hard-mode.
cess11 1y ago
They're also making the Chief Product Officer a soldier. "The four new Army Reserve Lt. Cols. are Shyam Sankar, Chief Technology Officer for Palantir; Andrew Bosworth, Chief Technology Officer of Meta; Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer of OpenAI; and Bob McGrew, advisor at Thinking Machines Lab and former Chief Research Officer for OpenAI." https://www.army.mil/article/286317/army_launches_detachment_201_executive_innovation_corps_to_drive_tech_transformation https://www.army.mil/article/286317/army_launches_detachment...

Aeolun 1y ago

> While they won't be rigging an LLM onto a drone You say that very confidently, but I’m extremely skeptical of that being an actual limit.

optimalsolver 1y ago

>IOC Immediate or cancel?

JohnKemeny 1y ago
Initial operating capability or initial operational capability (IOC) is the state achieved when a capability is available in its minimum usefully deployable form. The term is often used in government or military procurement. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_operating_capability https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_operating_capability
- medstrom 1y ago
  So MVP (minimum viable product).
  - smcin 1y ago
    The DoD equivalent of MVP, that is.
  - xpe 1y ago
    Initial Operating Capability (IOC) is notably different from how many people think of Minimum Viable Product (MVP). From the Wikipedia page on IOC: > "In general, attained when some units and/or organizations in the force structure scheduled to receive a system have received it and have the ability to employ and maintain it." Contrast with these quotes from [1]: > I have long defined minimum viable product as the smallest possible product that has three critical characteristics: people choose to use it or buy it; people can figure out how to use it; and we can deliver it when we need it with the resources available – also known as valuable, usable and feasible. > I love the concept popularized by Eric Ries of the smallest possible experiment to test a specific hypothesis, but I refer to that that as an “MVP Test” so that people don’t confuse an experiment with a product. [1]: https://www.svpg.com/minimum-viable-product/ https://www.svpg.com/minimum-viable-product/
yieldcrv 1y ago
found the trader

egorfine 1y ago

> until they reach IOC Imagine seriously using GPT-2 today. That's why government jobs are safe: it's long obsolete by the time it's IOC.

Bender 1y ago

One need not add LLMs to a drone. Language models not required. The US have had fully autonomous drones for quite some time. These drones already play on hard-mode.

cess11 1y ago

They're also making the Chief Product Officer a soldier. "The four new Army Reserve Lt. Cols. are Shyam Sankar, Chief Technology Officer for Palantir; Andrew Bosworth, Chief Technology Officer of Meta; Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer of OpenAI; and Bob McGrew, advisor at Thinking Machines Lab and former Chief Research Officer for OpenAI." https://www.army.mil/article/286317/army_launches_detachment_201_executive_innovation_corps_to_drive_tech_transformation https://www.army.mil/article/286317/army_launches_detachment...