It was ps2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2viuQ4OfqYc

That's actually a lot more recent than I expected. Was guessing something fairly ancient and pre-sanctions, like 2018. Interesting.

The fucktard who made the Oculus Rift likes to use my preferred operating system to kill people. Tech is a wild world.

Edit: actually not just tech. Capitalism is just evil in general and polutes everything both literally and metaphorically

We live in a world where it's sorta just widely understood that the bottled-water chocolate-bar company murders people for profit on the regular

It's all fucked at every level

Always have been. Orin nano/nx SoMs are in all sorts of weapons systems. NixOS had a whole community civil war because Anduril heavily adopted NixOS and integrated it with Jetpack, the BSP that these run. They're kind of a PITA to use (fuck you WayneWWW...IYKYK) but they're easily the highest performance SoM of that size and the power consumption is workable for these kinds of...short lived systems. I think they started out targeting automotive applications and never really took off in the commercial world despite being comparable to Apple silicon in performance because they have no power saving modes. They ended up being perfect for doing real time object detection from a MIPI camera though so now they're the gold standard for bleeding edge slaughterbots.

Before the Orin, a lot of more experimental systems were using the TX2i and Xavier modules, but they had much less computing power and the image recognition models weren't as capable anyway.

That said, Linux is not exempt from being used in weapons.

All of the tech giants discovered that there is much more money to be made making tech for dystopian authoritarian governments than gamers. It was inevitable I guess.

Apple once advertised their new PowerMac G4 was so powerful it was classified as a munition and hence illegal to export. (this was stretching the truth a bit as the regulation allowing export of over 1 gigaflops machines had already passed)

Encryption used to be considered a controlled munition by the US.

It's a more efficient, direct, and profitable method for destroying the planet.

See also almost all "technology" under capitalism.

Pepsi once had a sizeable army, iirc

But then there'll be a shortage and the prices will start to rise an then nobody will be able to affo-😂😂😂

jk eat shit nvidia

I wonder whether it'd be possible by tracking serial numbers. You might get the first customer.

Also Seeed Studio: https://www.seeedstudio.com/NVIDIAr-Jetson-Orintm-Nano-Super-Developer-Kit-Bundle.html

we assumed that having “visual” cues was further out because AI at the time wasn’t up to the task.

For just terrain recognition, the US has had that since before there was GPS. Since the 1950s even.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOM

ITAR has severely restricted access to nav system tech export, but there was always this open question about reckoning position by visual cues rather than GPS + dead reckoning. We all knew it was technically feasible, but we assumed that having “visual” cues was further out because AI at the time wasn’t up to the task.

There's always going back to the old-fashioned method of having a trained pigeon inside of the device instead of a sophisticated computer vision system.

Nvidia, willing or not, is now a defendant in an unjust war, and must be subpoena'd by the ICC.

Subpoenas only exist in the US. Since it did not sign the Rome treaty, and since Nvidia is an American company - the ICC has no power here.

Plenty of western tech still ends up in Russian weapons, it's nothing new. NVidia should be just put in queue.

Current defense worker here:

Was talking with a coworker recently about how ITAR/EAR rules are hilariously out of date. Basic IMUs coming from China these days are good enough that you can establish a reasonable dead reckoning nav to where those parts of the munitions list are just defunct. Shit I did that in college ten years ago with high power rockets and things have only gotten better.

The new proposed regulations over AI chips are also wildly misguided and demonstrate how Congress/Executive branch have no idea what the tech even is. The top of the line chips today are needed for LLMs, fast fixture acquisition and tracking can be done on a way less powerful piece of hardware that new regulations will fail to stop (that's even assuming that the bans would have worked in the first place, which they won't)

It might not even be for vision applications. These little tegra boxes end up in all sorts of rapid prototype DSP applications. It could easy be doing comms or ECM.

You severely overestimate Russia's technological capabilities. For the last 30 years all of the money has been moving to politician's pockets. They are not losing in Ukraine because of a fluke, they are losing because they are a hollowed out shell of what they used to be.

Honestly?

Isn't diffusion the process of training AI to fill in missing detail and denoisong? Based on probability? So why not train it against chaff and smoke and jamming?

Generative AI couldn't be functionally worse than trying to use birds pecking as a guidance system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon

Morally bankrupt though

The US bombed a girl's school in the opening salvos against Iran because their AI fucked up.

Missiles that miss their target still hit something.

Rocket missing a military target sometimes means a rocket incidentally hitting a civilian object, so not good. All kinds of rockets and drones are used to hit targets in all major cities. They're not only used for some standalone objects in the middle of nowhere.

Ironically my washing machine has a big AI logo on the front.

It IS doom

Not really. If confirmed, it means someone somewhere was smart enough to do something like drive across a border in a truck with fake papers. It's very, very unlikely that Nvidia directly sold to anyone in a way that would get them in trouble.

It can cause it