Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI
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Sure. Why not put mechahitler in charge? May as fucking well.
No, no - It's because it's mechahitler that this contract is now in place.
- Grok, summarize our civilization's positive achievements in the last century.
- Heil Hitler!
- Test passed.
And all the pentagons info is compromised…
Just copy paste it in
No, Elon specifically said to cut and paste.
To be fair it probably has been for a while
Not really, too many lives at stake.
I've seen this movie.
"The only way to keep things from crashing is to plug
SkynetGrok in."GrokMechahitler.I thought about this movie
Elon thinks he's Tony Stark when he's clearly Justin Hammer.
Ha, he wishes he could be at least as cool as Justin Hammer.
Instead of this:
We got that
and that
and the most embarrassing one
phoney stark.
I think it's hilarious that you think that a multimillion dollar over engineered autocorrect is gonna somehow become sentient and destroy the world. It can't even do math correctly. 😂
You don't have to be intelligent to ruin things. Look at Trump.
At least a thinking machine would have a reason for doing what it might do, instead of bumbling along and overshooting any safeguards left. Which given Musk's attitude, Grok would be the first and last safeguard for everything. So yeah, this is worse than Terminator.
Wait til you learn about MCP and how much better it has gotten in the last 3 months
For a certain very specific usage of the word "better"
Honestly thought this was a snarky Tron reference at first. Then I realized this is Lemmy and not reddit and so looked it up. Very interesting, but not sure how that helps it do math better.
In theory at least, if you have a math problem, and a protocol for how to ask a real calculator to compute it, the model can ask a real calculator to compute the value of an expression.
I don’t know if anyone has done it, but it is feasible. Could also be extended to more robust solving tools. Think matlab and the like.
It’s even worse when you remember the news from just the other day that grok is looking at elon’s tweets to determine it’s opinion on topics
That's why the news that Grok is racist is true. The US government will be even more systematically racist now.
And here I thought Trump and musk were no longer buddies.
“Bro, let’s pretend like you hate me so people buy my cars again”
This is probably Trump trying to get Musk to shut up about Epstein.
Trump is letting the baby have its bottle. that's all this is. hand him a cookie every now and again so he stops crying. The administration is treating Musk like a toddler.
That doesn't make sense. The US government doesn't have to treat musk at all.
It's quid pro quo. The only question is what for
Epstein files
Grok didn't kill itself.
Trump is a toddler.
a toddler giving another toddler some milk.
Oh I can't wait until 7 astronauts explode because fucking Grok told the construction team not to bother with the O-rings.
We don't use O rings because there's no 'O' in "Hitler"
I understood that reference.
Living outside the US I'm not sure if I should be glad or terrified by the Pentagon's incompetence in these worrying times. Maybe I'm... I don't know, 20% glad and 80% terrified? Sounds about right.
You should be more terrified. And also more glad
They want both of these things.
What incompetence? It's just the usual corruption. It's 90% of what Pentagon does.
This is corruption, but there's nothing usual about it.
Were it 90% of what Pentagon did, the rest of the world bar China and India would be US territories.
Being corrupt does not get you territories. I just makes you waste money on never ending conflicts so that private contractors can get richer.
Being 90% corrupt gives you more territories than being 99% corrupt
Oh, ok, you're saying they are more corrupt, not less. Didn't get it.
Why would you be glad?
Incompetent Pentagon means they‘ll hopefully cause less destruction in the world but I‘m not sure that they will when working under mecha Hitler word salad.
Dude you can just fucking download open LLM models suited for particular tasks and get a semi competent team of programmers/IT/engineers to do whatever Grok does much better for a minute fraction of that cost. Talk about the department of government inefficiency.
They want to use mecha hitler without having to build mecha hitler
They went and built the torment nexus...
They can't not use it!
A pity. I wanted to watch Blazkowicz blow up Mecha Hitler in 4k HD.
Dept of Grift Engineering
Where are you going to deploy it? On your laptop?
On a 200mil laptop? You can run llama4 on a 64GB RAM machine, albeit slowly, which is already an upper scale model. TBF, I didn't do the math to see how much that would add up to along with salaries and server costs etc, mainly because this is pentagon we are talking about so it should already have access to some pretty decent computational capacity. So yea 200mil feels like too much when you already have most of the resources needed (compute and open LLM models for specific tasks).
The really huge upside is you don't have to share confidential information with a company whose CEO is a lunatic who will likely have no qualms about sharing that data with other agents when money and power is involved. Hell you shouldn't share any confidential/sensitive information with any of the large tech companies to be honest. They have become what they are not by sticking to ethical principles and they are likely to grossly overcharge (which defeats the purpose of outsourcing and makes it more reasonable to invest in permanent infrastructure rather). They will surely use it as some sort of leverage, %100 guaranteed.
I agree that $200M is way too much to spend on a LLMs but talking about downloading open source models is completely missing the point. They are not paying for some sort of Grok license so that they can access this amazing model. They are paying for the computational capacity needed to run this model and provide access to thousands of people over some period of time. The alternative here is to simply buy everyone a subscription to OpenAI or something.
With open source you have the advantage of being able to use different LLMs for different tasks which can be more efficient. Surely Pentagon has access to enough compute power to set this up for a thousand people? The rest is UI, IT and fine tuning by a couple data scientists/programmers trained in LLMs. Surely it is better than Elon who changes his mind on politics every five days and thinks that twenty year olds can run critical government infrastructure because they worship him. Not an expert, just don't like big tech companies, particularly Melon.
Yes, that's what needed. It's not just about downloading an open source LLM. That was my point. I see we agree now.
Alright let's go then!
Why would the Pentagon deploy it on a laptop?
The UN should consider nuking this.. this … whatever it is that is left of the USA to Kingdom Come.
I identify strongly with the frustration in this sentiment.
But you do realise the US is the foremost nuclear power in the world? Right?
That's why the world should have done anything and everything possible to keep US from falling into fascist hands. But now it's too late.
Yes, I know. Unfortunately, rest of the world is not doing that much better.
Grok goes full nazi and Pentagon thinks "ooh we should hire it!"
Certainly wouldn’t be the first time.
He got back $200M of his $288M election donation.
Food and shelter mostly
oh no are you telling me that the breakup between fascist A and fascist B was just play theater?! who could have ever seen that coming omg.... what a surprise this world is
Ok, Elon will lay off the Epstein jokes for a little while.
As we all know, Hitler was a brilliant mind regarding military matters. Mecha Hitler can only improve on that!
/S. Seriously, the bastard wasn't competent at military affairs. Thankfully. Here's hoping that Grok guides Musk and company into the grave.
Fun fact: Hitler's actual plan when he invaded Poland was to reproduce the trench war stalemate of WWI on the Western front. He knew that in that war, about 2.5 million German soldiers had been able to stymie more than 4 million French and British troops while the remainder of the German army pillaged Russian territories. This is why during the Winter of '39/'40 he devoted almost half of German productive capacity to making artillery shells that mostly ended up not being used until the later invasion of the USSR. His biggest success of the war was the blitzkrieg of France, and it was absolute blind luck (mixed with French ineptitude and lack of preparation) that it ended up going the way it did.
One can rather say that the French too prepared for Germans trying to
, except when it became visible that they are not putting all their effort into that, it also became imperative for Germans to act offensively. They couldn't afford a long standoff without France actually bleeding.
And here it became apparent that French politicians were not prepared for France actually bleeding at all.
Hitler was so fucking inept that many military projects had to be kept hidden from him in order to stop his meddling. Even some weapon systems such as the StG. 44 (world's first operational assault rifle) was once called the MP-44 in order to sell it to Hitler as a submachine gun since his parkinson's riddled mind would not comprehend how revolutionary the new rifle was.
What could possibly go wrong?
What happens in the SCIF stays in the…oh fuck it, never mind - send it to the cloud for processing. What could go wrong?
MechaHitler will be right at home
There's the grift.
Why do our drones keep crashing into synagogues?
Wow. End of line man.
Game over man, game over!
A Bill Paxton reference is a good reference.
Whitemanistan isn't exactly "great"
Besides the regressive south, these fuckers are more regressive than white Americans in the 1950s.
They at least believed in science and vaccinations back then.
up until they started tying things with religion as a contrary to reason, it was downhill from there.
On the plus side, the first thing it's gonna do is nuke Israel
why would nuking another country be a good thing?
See?! I knew Elon and his main minion Trump were playfighting.
he was trying to force more contracts out of him, it was a show. he doesnt want the files released anymore than trump is, hes on it as well.
"We are gonna use MechaHitler for good we promise"
I thought they broke up
I do not welcome our robot overlords.
What the fuck guys, who wished for 'real life tony stark, lol' on the cursed monkey paw!?!? GUYS?!?!
Haven't people seen Johnny English 3 :P
I wonder if they’ll make it operational on August 29th
It becomes operational August 4 and self-aware on the 29th.
Ah you’re right
Is there something special about that date?
Terminator 2 reference
Ellen really wants to be a super villian.
I for one am celebrating the Trump administration's commitment to ending US military hegemony.
go figure the us military is infested with AI from grok, and palintir.
They’re going to get someone killed
Isn't that their business anyway?
If you vote and pay taxes, it’s your business too.
I mean killing people is literally what they do, right? So the comment above is not very surprising
I don't think so. I think they'll either use it for very benign tasks or they'll get a LOT of people killed.
"I swear to God, I left my car for like 5 minutes and it crashed through a synagogue by itself"
and a bar mitzvah too.
Since this came right after a post from [email protected] on my feed i honestly thought it was the onion.
People will no longer laugh at the term "military intelligence" for the obvious irony. Now, they'll say "remember when the military tried to use artificial intelligence? ha ha what a disaster"
LLM to be exact, not even real AI.
Well that's fucking fantastic
Great, never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake