TranscriptTitle text: This is how you all fucking sound

[A smug tech bro wearing a sideways cap, watch, chain around his neck stands in front of a data center by a lake with dead fish. A smoke stack blows pollution into the air]

Tech bro: AI is already here, there’s no going back.

[A smug man in a suit with cigarette in hand stands in a restaurant while two disgruntled diners cough from the smoke]

Suit: Smoking indoors is already here, there’s no going back.

[A smug man in a top hat and suit stands in a factory with two sad and dirty children]

Hat: Child labor is already here, there’s no going back.

[A smug plantation owner stands in front of a field with with two angry slaves]

Plantation owner: The Atlantic Slave trade is already here, there’s no going back.

Still Vreni on Bluesky

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[–] 30 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

Except 90% of what people talk about when they refer to AI is LLMs which have no direct military applications other than vague productivity boost claims. You could say the same thing about sending kids to the mines, “our society is more productive sending kids to dig out coal instead of playing. If we don’t send our kids to the mines China will and then we’ll really be behind”.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    ... no I am talking about actual AI as a field as a whole, not just LLMs...

    Yall forgetting about Boston dynamics or something?

    We got fuckin guns strapped to the back of autonomous robot dogs that can run at over 60 km/h

    We got autonomous drones with facial recognition that can fly through dense forests at 90 km/h+

    The fuck you think Im talking about lol...

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Are you conflating robotics with intelligence?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    AI as a field is the study of any form of NN application, which includes the software powering Boston dynamics robots...

    You didnt think those robots capabilities were programmed manually by hand, did you?

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    The biggest strength of LLMs is in processing a huge amount of text very quickly. I imagine that contributes a lot to military intelligence.

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

    Again that’s a use case with entirely speculative applications at best. It can “process info”, but the answers it gives from them could be hallucinated. So if it’s analyzing nuclear threats, what if it “hallucinates” one? This isn’t Comcast ticket support, the military can’t afford LLMs making up bad info.

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