Comment by simonw
2 days ago
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.
Have you seen a description of one of those? I didn't know that those existed.
It would obviously be classified CIA/NSA technology.