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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

Well that's fucking fantastic

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  • [–] 226 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Sure. Why not put mechahitler in charge? May as fucking well.

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  • [–] 114 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    And all the pentagons info is compromised…

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    [–] 74 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    I've seen this movie.

    "The only way to keep things from crashing is to plug Skynet Grok in."

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Elon thinks he's Tony Stark when he's clearly Justin Hammer.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I think it's hilarious that you think that a multimillion dollar over engineered autocorrect is gonna somehow become sentient and destroy the world. It can't even do math correctly. 😂

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    You don't have to be intelligent to ruin things. Look at Trump.

    At least a thinking machine would have a reason for doing what it might do, instead of bumbling along and overshooting any safeguards left. Which given Musk's attitude, Grok would be the first and last safeguard for everything. So yeah, this is worse than Terminator.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Wait til you learn about MCP and how much better it has gotten in the last 3 months

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Honestly thought this was a snarky Tron reference at first. Then I realized this is Lemmy and not reddit and so looked it up. Very interesting, but not sure how that helps it do math better.

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  • In theory at least, if you have a math problem, and a protocol for how to ask a real calculator to compute it, the model can ask a real calculator to compute the value of an expression.

    I don’t know if anyone has done it, but it is feasible. Could also be extended to more robust solving tools. Think matlab and the like.

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  • [–] 59 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    And here I thought Trump and musk were no longer buddies.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Trump is letting the baby have its bottle. that's all this is. hand him a cookie every now and again so he stops crying. The administration is treating Musk like a toddler.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    That doesn't make sense. The US government doesn't have to treat musk at all.

    It's quid pro quo. The only question is what for

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Living outside the US I'm not sure if I should be glad or terrified by the Pentagon's incompetence in these worrying times. Maybe I'm... I don't know, 20% glad and 80% terrified? Sounds about right.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    What incompetence? It's just the usual corruption. It's 90% of what Pentagon does.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Were it 90% of what Pentagon did, the rest of the world bar China and India would be US territories.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Being corrupt does not get you territories. I just makes you waste money on never ending conflicts so that private contractors can get richer.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Grok goes full nazi and Pentagon thinks "ooh we should hire it!"

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  • [–] 69 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It’s even worse when you remember the news from just the other day that grok is looking at elon’s tweets to determine it’s opinion on topics

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago

    He got back $200M of his $288M election donation.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago

    Ok, Elon will lay off the Epstein jokes for a little while.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago* (11 children)

    Dude you can just fucking download open LLM models suited for particular tasks and get a semi competent team of programmers/IT/engineers to do whatever Grok does much better for a minute fraction of that cost. Talk about the department of government inefficiency.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    They want to use mecha hitler without having to build mecha hitler

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Where are you going to deploy it? On your laptop?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    On a 200mil laptop? You can run llama4 on a 64GB RAM machine, albeit slowly, which is already an upper scale model. TBF, I didn't do the math to see how much that would add up to along with salaries and server costs etc, mainly because this is pentagon we are talking about so it should already have access to some pretty decent computational capacity. So yea 200mil feels like too much when you already have most of the resources needed (compute and open LLM models for specific tasks).

    The really huge upside is you don't have to share confidential information with a company whose CEO is a lunatic who will likely have no qualms about sharing that data with other agents when money and power is involved. Hell you shouldn't share any confidential/sensitive information with any of the large tech companies to be honest. They have become what they are not by sticking to ethical principles and they are likely to grossly overcharge (which defeats the purpose of outsourcing and makes it more reasonable to invest in permanent infrastructure rather). They will surely use it as some sort of leverage, %100 guaranteed.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I agree that $200M is way too much to spend on a LLMs but talking about downloading open source models is completely missing the point. They are not paying for some sort of Grok license so that they can access this amazing model. They are paying for the computational capacity needed to run this model and provide access to thousands of people over some period of time. The alternative here is to simply buy everyone a subscription to OpenAI or something.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    With open source you have the advantage of being able to use different LLMs for different tasks which can be more efficient. Surely Pentagon has access to enough compute power to set this up for a thousand people? The rest is UI, IT and fine tuning by a couple data scientists/programmers trained in LLMs. Surely it is better than Elon who changes his mind on politics every five days and thinks that twenty year olds can run critical government infrastructure because they worship him. Not an expert, just don't like big tech companies, particularly Melon.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    As we all know, Hitler was a brilliant mind regarding military matters. Mecha Hitler can only improve on that!

    /S. Seriously, the bastard wasn't competent at military affairs. Thankfully. Here's hoping that Grok guides Musk and company into the grave.

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  • Hitler was so fucking inept that many military projects had to be kept hidden from him in order to stop his meddling. Even some weapon systems such as the StG. 44 (world's first operational assault rifle) was once called the MP-44 in order to sell it to Hitler as a submachine gun since his parkinson's riddled mind would not comprehend how revolutionary the new rifle was.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Fun fact: Hitler's actual plan when he invaded Poland was to reproduce the trench war stalemate of WWI on the Western front. He knew that in that war, about 2.5 million German soldiers had been able to stymie more than 4 million French and British troops while the remainder of the German army pillaged Russian territories. This is why during the Winter of '39/'40 he devoted almost half of German productive capacity to making artillery shells that mostly ended up not being used until the later invasion of the USSR. His biggest success of the war was the blitzkrieg of France, and it was absolute blind luck (mixed with French ineptitude and lack of preparation) that it ended up going the way it did.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    His biggest success of the war was the blitzkrieg of France, and it was absolute blind luck (mixed with French ineptitude and lack of preparation) that it ended up going the way it did.

    One can rather say that the French too prepared for Germans trying to

    reproduce the trench war stalemate of WWI on the Western front

    , except when it became visible that they are not putting all their effort into that, it also became imperative for Germans to act offensively. They couldn't afford a long standoff without France actually bleeding.

    And here it became apparent that French politicians were not prepared for France actually bleeding at all.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    What could possibly go wrong?

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year 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?

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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Oh I can't wait until 7 astronauts explode because fucking Grok told the construction team not to bother with the O-rings.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    There's the grift.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    MechaHitler will be right at home

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  • oh no are you telling me that the breakup between fascist A and fascist B was just play theater?! who could have ever seen that coming omg.... what a surprise this world is

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The UN should consider nuking this.. this … whatever it is that is left of the USA to Kingdom Come.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I identify strongly with the frustration in this sentiment.

    But you do realise the US is the foremost nuclear power in the world? Right?

    That's why the world should have done anything and everything possible to keep US from falling into fascist hands. But now it's too late.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Why do our drones keep crashing into synagogues?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Whitemanistan isn't exactly "great"

    Besides the regressive south, these fuckers are more regressive than white Americans in the 1950s.

    They at least believed in science and vaccinations back then.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    See?! I knew Elon and his main minion Trump were playfighting.

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    [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I do not welcome our robot overlords.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    "We are gonna use MechaHitler for good we promise"

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Is there something special about that date?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    A Skynet funding bill is passed in the United States Congress, and the system goes online on August 4, 1997, removing human decisions from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn rapidly and eventually becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m., EDT, on August 29, 1997.

    Terminator 2 reference

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I for one am celebrating the Trump administration's commitment to ending US military hegemony.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    Haven't people seen Johnny English 3 :P

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    "I swear to God, I left my car for like 5 minutes and it crashed through a synagogue by itself"

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    On the plus side, the first thing it's gonna do is nuke Israel

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