Is nobody else unsettled by the example? Strange timing to talk about calculating trajectories on long range projectiles?

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teraflop 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Unsettling, yes, but not strange at all.

Given that OpenAI is working with and doing business with the US military, it makes perfect sense that they would try to normalize militaristic usage of their technologies. Everybody already knows they're doing it, so now they just need to keep talking about it as something increasingly normal. Promoting usages that are only sort of military is a way of soft-pedaling this change.

If something is banal enough to be used as an ordinary example in a press release, then obviously anybody opposed to it must be an out-of-touch weirdo, right?

	▲	jpgreenall 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Interesting take. Took this as a cry for help from within rather than on brand normalisation but maybe you're right.

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jonas21 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's basic physics, the sort of example you might find in a high school textbook.

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jpgreenall 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Sure. But do we think the topic was chosen at random?

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BeetleB an hour ago | parent [-]

When primed, people will see things that aren't there.

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Imustaskforhelp an hour ago | parent [-]

but sometimes, people do see things behind the curtain.

The timing of talking about this topic does feel pretty strange I'd say as well as the GP comment noted?

	▲	BeetleB an hour ago \| parent [-]
		My point is: You're never going to know if this is a coincidence or not. And even if it was intentional, it's of little consequence.