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Comment by casey2

2 days ago

surreal and dystopian is realizing that the US military has likely had (much) better tech than this for at least a decade.

I wonder if they have?

My current intuition is that the US military / NSA etc have been just as suprised the explosion in capabilities of LLMs/transformers as everyone else.

(I'm using "intuition" here as a fancy word for "dumb-ass guess".)

I'd be interested to know if the NSA were running their own GPT-style models years before OpenAI started publishing their results.

  • You don't need a LLM to do this. A dedicated image->coords model would likely perform much better, and that's old school ML at this point.

The US military probably has tons of satellite data that they can cross against an image, but not the automated reasoning. But put those two together and it really gets scary.