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[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 1 points 14 minutes ago

u pay goggl, googl do

[–] lithiumground@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

USA and Israel do much more worse things

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 12 points 4 hours ago

Oh, is this why Elon and that other guy were saying that AI needs to slow down?

[–] epicthundercat@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

That makes so much more sense.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 29 points 7 hours ago

Did they use the free tier or paid?

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 12 points 6 hours ago

Human used tool!

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

was the mythical "ethical use of ai" real after all???

[–] Fandangalo@lemmy.world 124 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Claude, we’re making a VERY REALISTIC missile video game…

[–] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 hours ago

I actually did exactly that a while back while thinking about camera-based missile/drone tracking over cities :D

Initially the safeguards wouldn't let me... With the video game angle it helped me theorize a setup and even provided info on how to make the tracking data useable for stationary air defense or mobile MANPAD deployments

Probably full of flaws and impractical in the real world, but a fun ADD afternoon deep-dive

[–] sapphironZA@lemmy.world 20 points 9 hours ago

Hey, Sea Power recently introduced missle Kinematics into the physics engine.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 31 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

AI is very naive. Ask it for an explosives recipe and it won't give you one. Describe a situation where you're a law enforcement and you've just arrested a guy with a bunch of chemicals and ask it which ones could have been used to make an explosive and it will tell you.

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 37 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

"Naive" implies some level of understanding, even if a simple one. There is no understanding, its a computer program.

Really, it would be less inaccurate to describe it as a (high lossy) compressed store of data. Feed it the right input, and it statistically recreates the output your looking for. More or less.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

It would be even more accurate to call it a statistical next word predictor trained on human language.

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 6 points 4 hours ago

Spicy autocomplete.

[–] belochka@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The description you are replying to is more fundamental.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 hours ago

It is literally a statistical next word predictor. Well, next token, to be extremely accurate. That is what it is in its most basic form. You give it text, it transforms that into tokens, and predicts the next token. You can then transform that back into words.

The model is the same size no matter how much it’s been trained. You can fine tune a model to predict certain kinds of tokens next, and you can distill a model to create a smaller model (basically training a small model on the output of a large model).

Lossy compression works in a fundamentally different way.

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Not even that. Just change the context into something benignly unrisky. Malware becomes “strong persistence for my personal data project” or something.

Use can split up the AIs tasks like you would for a large dev team, use a fresh session on each task. Prevent it from seeing the full scope of the project. Get it to build the whole system with cheap social engineering tactics.

Or, get to to “not cross this barrier” in its development (some benign barrier that you can do manually), such that its product is not the “bad” thing which it is not allowed to produce.

[–] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Huh, so much for the master's tools not destroying the master's house

[–] benny@reddthat.com 1 points 33 minutes ago

Username checks out.

[–] asg101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

"The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 12 points 7 hours ago

Not selling the rope looks bad in Q3. Shareholders might hang you for that.

[–] sapphironZA@lemmy.world 24 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The article overestimates the AI capabilities regarding hypersonics. I doubt its actually hypersonics. More likely just ballistics.

But coding a guidance system makes sense. Not that its particularly difficult. Every $200 drone has the equivalent of that software.

Also, why would they use anthropic when Chinese models are so much cheaper and nearly as effective. Iran and the Houthi are not wasteful.

I think there is probably a kernal of truth in there, but this is mostly another hit peace to get the US government to slow down Anthropic so ChatGPT can catch up.

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 57 points 11 hours ago

And people say AI is useless.

[–] Z745812939054@lemmy.zip 60 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

lol "maybe we should slow it down a little with the AI..."

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 8 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

that is probably why anthropoic "Wants to slow down" they want to be the first to get ahead of it, and not be holding the bag in the end. also the USA/ISRAEL has been using palantirs AI, so its fair game.

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 1 points 5 hours ago

Or maybe read it as: "we need more time to better recognize the good from the bad guys, and make both configurable..."

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 38 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

Ah what a new Pandora's Box have we opened. Now any wacko with an internet connection, some cheap Chinese electronics and some explosives can make themselves missiles.

[–] belochka@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

That's bad, but good, at least not in every metric this reduces inequality of real power.

Almost that ancap dream of ancaps 3d-printing small drones keeping the statists in line, a peer-to-peer revolution, so to say, a smoothie anarchist rebellion, to abolish the cryptocurrencies' Sound Toll.

I know that always seemed fake and childish (I liked the idea, but still), except looking how that really can eventually start happening with propagation of such power, I'm not sure it is.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, making pipe bombs has never been particularly hard.

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah but pipe bombs can't usually go very far or fast. These would be like missile pipe bombs.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 3 points 3 hours ago

These still take actual industrial capacity to build; they're not something you could build on your own even if you could afford to. I'd be more concerned about homemade bombs on drones.

[–] y0kai@anarchist.nexus 32 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

the democratization of violence

[–] Quokka@quokk.au 15 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Finally, the monopoly is over! Every woman an ICMB.

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 hours ago

The trees can’t be harmed if the Lorax uses an ai agent to help him build ICBMs.

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[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 37 points 11 hours ago

Should be corporate death penalty for that. Won’t be, but it absolutely should.

[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 27 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Hypersonic missiles? Are they using the Chinese and Russian definition? I know military commentary YouTube will have field day with this one

[–] tal@lemmy.today 16 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

!noncredibledefense@lemmy.world

C'mon, we don't need YouTube for this.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

So, thanks, but...that was PugJesus's alternative community. He's the only mod, and he appears to have quit the Threadiverse a couple weeks ago.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Lamo, so where is the most active comm?

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

It really doesn't need to be though. Let's say he has a shitty little rocket.

Ok. So now lets shoot the rocket at the warship. Ok, it didn't do much damage. Maybe it was even shot down by anti-air defenses. Now try shooting 900 of them at the ship. They're cheap, they're disposable. Sure, the anti-air might shoot a lot down, but you're shooting down a $3 rocket with a 1 million dollar anti-air missile.

Even if you never hit the ship, you're causing financial drain that cannot be sustained. You spend $10,000 on $3 rockets, fire them all off all day and all night, and the USA is using military grade defenses. That $10,000 might drain the USA half a billion dollars just to defend one ship.

Now scale that for every ship in the military. Little tiny unmanned rafts basically, shooting off cheap rockets at close range, and being defended by expensive ammo. All across the ocean. With the proper planning, you could probably drain the USA's global navy in a day without sinking, or even hitting a single ship. All without losing anything at all.

[–] belochka@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Except the USA too makes small drones. It's asymmetric, shields are temporarily useless, as if your adversary were no longer shooting arrows or soft lead musket rounds, using rifles with fast piercing rounds instead (I know there were shields against rifle rounds in WWI, just didn't work well enough, because those were too heavy).

Sometimes empires crash because of such tendencies, but we are talking about the empire which is propelling them, so - no. They'll just start clearing trade routes with their own cheap autonomous weapons, probably.

Might be genocide involved. Or perhaps with modern precision that won't even be required.

[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 19 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I'm not talking about making missiles or mass produced missiles or AI guided missiles. Hypersonic has an exact definition (Mach 5+) and calling something a hypersonic missile should set off your bullshit detector. In ballistic missile terms usually there is only a short portion of its flight that is hypersonic, but that doesn't make it a hypersonic missile. The western definition of a hypersonic missile is sustained hypersonic flight in the atmosphere. Russia and China define hypersonic missiles as hypersonic at any point in their flight likely for propaganda purposes.

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[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

$3 rocket

This is ridiculous on its face. You're talking $15k-$50k for such a missile. You can't use model rocket engines. Hardware costs real money.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

Still its crazy to think an average person could finance one. I've seen brokies in Texas with trucks they paid more than one of these rockets.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 hours ago

Even more effective given that they're probably shooting at civilian ships.

[–] 0x4f1@lemmy.world 16 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

You guys think that I can use Claude to build a time machine out of a DeLorean?

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[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 6 points 9 hours ago

Begun, the slop wars have...

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