Does anyone have insight into, or an interesting source to read, on what exactly Anthropic/OpenAI are doing/can do for a military? Reporters are unsurprisingly fearmongering about Claude "being used in surveillance, autonomous robots, and target acquisition" but AFAIK all Anthropic does is work with LLMs.

Are people really attempting to have LLMs replace vision models in robots, and trying to agentically make a robot work with an LLM?? This seems really silly to me, but perhaps I am mistaken.

The only other thing I could think of is real-time translation during special ops with parabolic microphones and AR goggles...

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sigbottle 4 hours ago | parent [-]

You're thinking too advanced. What kind of automated system is good at scanning semantically trillions of chat logs and finding nontrivial correlations, for example? 10000 codex 5.1s can easily crawl through that in a few days, probably.

It's just systems plumbing (surveillance) and AI. It's a combination of weaker technologies and consolidation of power.

This does not require a physical robot super AGI(though I would not be surprised if fully autonomous robots are not on the table already)

	▲	bogzz 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ah, well that makes sense. In that case, it's another tool in the toolbelt, not a plug-and-play drone brain, as some reporters amusingly make it out to be.