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S1: A $6 R1 competitor?

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yapyap ◴[] No.42947816[source]
> If you believe that AI development is a prime national security advantage, then you absolutely should want even more money poured into AI development, to make it go even faster.

This, this is the problem for me with people deep in AI. They think it’s the end all be all for everything. They have the vision of the ‘AI’ they’ve seen in movies in mind, see the current ‘AI’ being used and to them it’s basically almost the same, their brain is mental bridging the concepts and saying it’s only a matter of time.

To me, that’s stupid. I observe the more populist and socially appealing CEOs of these VC startups (Sam Altman being the biggest, of course.) just straight up lying to the masses, for financial gain, of course.

Real AI, artificial intelligence, is a fever dream. This is machine learning except the machines are bigger than ever before. There is no intellect.

and the enthusiasm of these people that are into it feeds into those who aren’t aware of it in the slightest, they see you can chat with a ‘robot’, they hear all this hype from their peers and they buy into it. We are social creatures after all.

I think using any of this in a national security setting is stupid, wasteful and very, very insecure.

Hell, if you really care about being ahead, pour 500 billion dollars into quantum computing so u can try to break current encryption. That’ll get you so much further than this nonsensical bs.

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sidewndr46 ◴[] No.42948370[source]
What is even the possible usage of AI for national security? Generating pictures of kittens riding nuclear weapons to the very end like in Dr Strangelove?
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1. ben_w ◴[] No.42948627[source]
> What is even the possible usage of AI for national security? Generating pictures of kittens riding nuclear weapons to the very end like in Dr Strangelove?

For all that critics of AI dismiss them as lacking imagination, your reaction suggests a lack of imagination.

Off the top of my head: facial recognition and identification to make "smart" guns that hit specific targets with reduced collateral damage (as found on most digital cameras even before smartphones); creating and A/B testing propaganda campaigns; using modified wifi signals as wall-penetrating radar capable of post estimation, heart rate and breathing monitoring[0]; take any self-driving car's AI and conditionally invert the part that says "don't hit pedestrians" when a certain target is spotted; ANPR to track specific vehicles with known owners over long distances; alternative targeting system for cruise missiles in the absence or jamming of GPS systems; using them as red teams in war-game exercises; using them to automate intrusion detection by monitoring for changes to background distributions of basically every measurable event; person-tracking by watching CCTV in secure areas; control systems for security robots (think Boston Dynamics' Spot) that are currently in deployment.

There's likely a lot more, too.

[0] https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2018/papers/Zhao_...