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jeffkeeg t1_j93drdg wrote

The DOD receives a blank check once a year.

Anything we have now, they had ten years ago.

(I guess downvoting me makes it untrue.)

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turnip_burrito t1_j93ljw0 wrote

Yeah right. You're telling us the military has better LLM AI tech than Google, OpenAI, DeepMind, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Apple? The entities that have the hardware and software engineering experts on their payroll? The ones that openly publish research papers and collaborate, which increases their research efficiency?

The only way the military would have better tech is if the scientists at these companies willingly sent their discoveries to only the military, or if the military had some small number of secret hypergeniuses that somehow are smarter than all the many known geniuses at these tech giants without needing to collaborate. That sounds like some sort of sci-fi movie.

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Stakbrok t1_j93qd21 wrote

Maybe the tech companies are all in on it and delay releases to the public by 10 years, while giving military access right as it comes out.

Like, for example, this year we, the general public, see the Nvidia H100 with 80 GB VRAM, but in reality Nvidia might already have like a 1 TB VRAM GPU out there that the military uses right now, and will be presented to us in 10 years from now as the latest cutting edge tech.

It could very well be possible that we are living 10 years in the past, so to speak.

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Cryptizard t1_j93skf4 wrote

>Maybe the tech companies are all in on it

They aren't.

>Nvidia might already have like a 1 TB VRAM GPU out there that the military uses right now

This is laughably wrong. The military runs on outdated hardware that was commissioned a decade plus ago. They do not have some magic semiconductor technology that is unknown to the public. They just have a lot of money.

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turnip_burrito t1_j94f95b wrote

> They do not have some magic semiconductor technology that is unknown to the public. They just have a lot of money.

Well, I certainly don't have proof that they don't have magic semiconductor technology and aren't secretly benefiting from advanced tech companies.

So we can't reasonably 100% negate their argument. After all, they could be right. We've been checkmated, and outvoted it looks like. If popular opinion is anything to go by, we should reconsider our position, and maybe change our mind?

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Fabulous_Exam_1787 t1_j94uyhq wrote

Who knows but usually for NASA and the Military it’s the exact opposite at least for hardware in the field, because often the hardware needs to be battle hardened, or in the case of NASA, radiation hardened.

I know for one NASA often uses very old chips in space, like special versions of 1980s/1990s CPUs because they are less vulnerable to cosmic/solar radiation, extreme temperatures, etc.

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