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> The technology can just be requisitioned, there is nothing a corporation or a private individual can do about that. I strongly doubt this is true. I think if

> The technology can just be requisitioned, there is nothing a corporation or a private individual can do about that. I strongly doubt this is true. I think if you gave the US government total control over Anthropic's assets right now, they would utterly fail to reach AGI or develop improved models. I doubt they would be capable even of operating the current gen models at the scale Anthropic does. > Or the models could be developed internally, after having requisitioned the data centers. I would bet my life savings the US government never produces a frontier model. Remember when they couldn't even build a proper website for Obamacare?

qup 8mo ago
> Remember when they couldn't even build a proper website for Obamacare? With a massive budget, too. Hundreds of millions iirc. It felt like a website that the small web-dev shop I worked for could build without much problem in a couple months. We didn't have 200 layers of beauracracy, though. That said I don't doubt the military could take their current tech and keep it running. It's far different from the typical grift of government contractors.
- jobs_throwaway 8mo ago
  Maybe they could keep it running. With the way models are improving though, I don't think that'd be useful for long. In 6 months or a year when the frontier is again pushed out, I don't think the military is going to want to be running Opus 4.6 And contrary to what the model-makers would like you to believe, I don't think we're anywhere close to the system being self-improving enough that you could just let it run without intervention and it spits out a new frontier model