• Ech@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    I think I saw something about it that. It was an extended prisoner’s dilemma game, right? I wouldn’t say that’s directly applicable to every gaming genre.

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      Without being in the room, we can only go off what the article lays out. These are wargaming scenarios though, so escalation is a very real concern. If both sides are running these models to provide recommendations and both are pushing for greater conflict, you find yourself in a prisoner’s dilemma real quick.

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        11 months ago

        These aren’t simulations that are estimating results, they’re language models that are extrapolating off a ton of human knowledge embedded as artifacts into text. It’s not necessarily going to pick the best long term solution.

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        11 months ago

        The models used by the writers of the article and those used by the military are going to be radically different.

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          11 months ago

          The writers of the article are reporting on use of these models by the military. They aren’t using the models. If I remember right they called out some models developed by one of the defense contractors like palantir

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            11 months ago

            The researchers tested LLMs such as OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, Anthropic’s Claude 2 and Meta’s Llama 2

            All these AIs are supported by Palantir’s commercial AI platform – though not necessarily part of Palantir’s US military partnership

            Also, they’re reporting on a Stanford study of how these platforms could be used militaristically, not the military’s actual use of them.

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              You’re right. I was focused on this part above. I made like an AI and jumped the gun

              These results come at a time when the US military has been testing such chatbots based on a type of AI called a large language model (LLM) to assist with military planning during simulated conflicts, enlisting the expertise of companies such as Palantir and Scale AI. Palantir declined to comment and Scale AI did not respond to requests for comment.