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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Clark via extropy-chat<br><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] OpenAI Reaches A.I. Agreement With Defense Dept. After Anthropic Clash<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>The following also comes from the New York Times: </span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>==</span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>>…"</span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>While many of the uses of artificial intelligence to assist military operations on the ground are still in a developmental stage…<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>John, when you read articles like this in the mainstream press, recall that the NYT has no clearances. They don’t know what is going on in the pentagon.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><br>>…Former officials have said C.I.A. officials are anxious to find a way to continue to use Claude…</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>John K Clark</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>So they rely on “…Former officials” as “news” sources. Things are changing so fast, these are useless in AI. Former officials don’t know what is going on in the pentagon any more than the NYT does. Claude may be good, but you can be sure that whatever they have now is better.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>spike <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>