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The CIA is using generative AI as a search engine (www.defenseone.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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[–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Just a minor paragraph rewrite for clarity.

“The reality of generative AI is you’ve got to have a foundation of cloud computing,” AWS Vice President of Worldwide Public Sector Dave Levy, whose compensation relies on him successfully growing Amazon's computer rental income, told Nextgov/FCW in a June 26 interview at AWS Summit. “You’ve got to get your data in a place where you can actually do something with it.”

It's always so tedious when these little conflict of interest notes are left out of articles.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They're not wrong. It's super expensive and time consuming to properly train a generative AI model.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago*

    That doesn't imply cloud computing is a hard requirement, just that a server (might be) a requirement.

    In a different universe where the cloud / SAAS never took over the market, Cat-GTPurr could be distributed on mail order Blu-Ray disks or (in the worst case) a spinning drive or two, or downloaded once via bittorrent; and then hosted locally. The cost of such a distribution would be a rounding error for most big tech companies.

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