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Can we all take a big step back and just ask why the DoD wants to use a fundamentally unreliable technology to guide deadly weapons?
by mbgerring 8mo ago
Can we all take a big step back and just ask why the DoD wants to use a fundamentally unreliable technology to guide deadly weapons?
- sowbug 8mo agoThey don't. They want to punish a company for expressing values that introduce friction to the whims of the current administration.
- mbgerring 8mo agoNo, stop, I understand the politics here, but I’m asking about the technical fundamentals. LLMs produce output of unknowable and unpredictable accuracy, and as far as we know, this is a mathematically unsolvable problem. This shit should not be within 1000 miles of a weapons system. Why are we even talking about this?
- dgellow 8mo agoBecause of the politics.
- ks2048 8mo agoThe DoD killing lots of people based on faulty intelligence - never! Joking aside, this administration clearly cares much less others. They don't care if innocent people are killed.
- wvenable 8mo ago> LLMs produce output of unknowable and unpredictable accuracy So do humans. But humans might not follow illegal or immoral orders.
- sowbug 8mo agoYou don't understand the politics if you keep asking about the red herring of technical limitations. Anthropic could have said "you can use our technology for anything but faster-than-light travel." The military administration would have said "you're not the boss of me," and the outcome would have been exactly the same. It's a hot-button issue, just like flag burning. Nobody ever really cared about flag burning. By the way, your "No, stop" was rude and unnecessary, and your comment would have been stronger without it.
- Kim_Bruning 8mo agoIn a sane world we wouldn't be, but Hegseth has been rather insistent for some reason.
- amelius 8mo agoThe same reason why they used a Signal chat group for discussing matters of national security.