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Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI (www.cbsnews.com)

submitted 2 days ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 days ago

The new offering includes custom national security tools, AI-powered science and health applications, and cleared engineering support for classified environments.

What happens in the SCIF stays in the…oh fuck it, never mind - send it to the cloud for processing. What could go wrong?

[–] Kurious84@eviltoast.org 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wow. End of line man.

[–] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Game over man, game over!

[–] humancrayon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

A Bill Paxton reference is a good reference.

[–] vala@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I thought they broke up

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[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

"We are gonna use MechaHitler for good we promise"

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago

I do not welcome our robot overlords.

[–] lack@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

What the fuck guys, who wished for 'real life tony stark, lol' on the cursed monkey paw!?!? GUYS?!?!

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I wonder if they’ll make it operational on August 29th

[–] projectsquared@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It becomes operational August 4 and self-aware on the 29th.

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 1 points 2 days ago

Ah you’re right

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is there something special about that date?

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[–] ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They’re going to get someone killed

[–] ftbd@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Isn't that their business anyway?

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[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Ellen really wants to be a super villian.

[–] Rhino1199@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Haven't people seen Johnny English 3 :P

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

Since this came right after a post from !theonion@sh.itjust.works on my feed i honestly thought it was the onion.

[–] lerba@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

Well that's fucking fantastic

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

People will no longer laugh at the term "military intelligence" for the obvious irony. Now, they'll say "remember when the military tried to use artificial intelligence? ha ha what a disaster"

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