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Pentagon used Elon Musk’s Grok AI to fire 2,000 missiles at Iran, official says
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Okay, but what does that mean? How does an llm do that exactly? What are the inputs and outputs?
Do you actually know, or did propoganda get you? No shame in it, if you hear something enough and it can worm it's way in without conscious evaluation
I think neural networksthat highlight suspicious movements are fine, or at least as fine as weapons of war are fine in general. But ideally, that's just battlefield information fed to humans, which isn't how this is spoken about in the media
But we're specifically talking about grok here. How does grok fit into the process of firing a missile exactly, and what are the incentives built into the system for the people involved?
You've got a decent grasp on the tech side, so I think if you consider the position of the stake holders you'll come to the same conclusions.
Put yourself in the position of the developers providing models, the brass and why they want this, and the MIC shareholders and what they'd lobby for. Think of these pressures, and ask yourself what kind of direction the project is pushed in
There's some pretty horrifying implications
Not an LLM. An inference model (which... we group in with LLMs these days because stupid).
Let's keep it simple and say you have access to a bunch of traffic cameras. You are on the lookout for... I dunno, let's say a handsome young italian american in a dark green coat with a face mask on.
Just apply that on a larger scale using satelite surveillance data, intel on known targets, etc.
Gonna actively ignore all of your obnoxious ad hominem in the attempt to have an actual conversation. Don't prove me the fool for doing so
Which gets us to LLMs. LLMs... are REALLY good at translating from one language to another. For most people, that is natural language (a prompt) to machine instructions that get fed to underlying software ("agentic models" if you want to use buzz words). For ChatGPT that is usually just a google search. Or it is a few bullet points that turn into a letter to Grandma. Or a question that is turned into a non-answer.
And then... the rest is exactly what I said. "Find me all instances of General Whatshisface" is a query that would map to a database lookup that would use the already labeled (either through computer vision or a human analyst) data to find General Whatshisface. And then it is exactly what I said above