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Google is powering a new US Military AI platform

30 pointsby kevin061last Tuesday at 11:37 PM10 commentsview on HN

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dmixyesterday at 1:09 AM

I have a feeling to the average user there isn't a major difference between the major LLM chatbots. They've all converged on pretty damn good. Even more fringe ones like Grok.

What I'm interested in is who gets the most integration. Google has Android and Search so they have a big advantage and they seem to be the first to roll out a Home voice assistants (early release started in Oct). Beating out Alexa and Apple home.

iPhone is still missing a proper Siri but they will still have control of multiple huge platforms.

xAI / Grok is stuck in the fringes a bit. Maybe they'll focus on APIs and affordable business stuff, or some social media play.

Anthropic seems to dominate in coding and API stuff as well.

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N_Lensyesterday at 12:40 AM

Sure is a slippery slope - 'do no evil' to assisting military operations. I'm sure Google today would create AI for autonomous killbots, if the contract were lucrative enough.

wybiralyesterday at 12:33 AM

I'm pretty sure this will mainly get used to write counselings and award speeches. Maybe to query regulations. It can only handle CUI.

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blibbleyesterday at 2:29 AM

> Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ... promised that the platform “puts the worlds [sic] most powerful frontier AI models directly into the hands of every American warrior” and will “make our fighting force more lethal than ever before.”

what is it going to do?

email pictures of shrimp jesus to the venezuelan fishermen?

thebigspacefuckyesterday at 12:57 AM

Skynet?

bdangubicyesterday at 1:12 AM

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