[ExI] OpenAI Reaches A.I. Agreement With Defense Dept. After Anthropic Clash

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> 

> >>> Do you have a clearance?
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> >> Nope. Do you?
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> >No, and that’s the point.
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>...Not arrogant, John is just right.  I am absolutely confident that the military does not have a massive AI data center...

How massive do they not have?  Do we know?  Can AI be trained in a slightly massive AI center?  How about if it is distributed into a number of micromassive facilities?  Would we know what they are doing there?  How?

Consider that example of China Lake NWC.  Do locate that on a map pls.

Out there they have controlled access, they have restricted airspace, natural gas in arbitrarily large supply, there are ways to vent the waste heat in way which would be difficult to detect by satellite.  We don't know that Musk is doing that, or if he is, he would talk about it.  


>...In any case, "training at West Point" is not the question.  Training an AI on the material at West Point, along with all the text in the world, has already been done.  What the AI companies are trying to do is shape the AI after training to psychologically react to humans morally and ethically.  It is a hard task, one that I suspect will fail to humanity's detriment, perhaps to extinction... Keith

Agreed that is an existential threat.  Considering that, is there sufficient justification for insisting the US government does not have the means to create weaponized AI now?  Can we confidently assume the military in the USA and elsewhere have not already been buying and otherwise collecting technology and expertise to create weaponized AI?  Can we assume that the world's most successful businessman will not also be able to develop it, along with several of his rivals?  

We don't know what will happen with weaponized AI.  We don't know what the US government already has, what weaponized AI the Chinese government and even the Russian government already have.  We are being presumptuous to claim to know, based on reason.

spike