Reconnaissance might be a candidate for one of the first uses of powerful A(G)I systems by militaries—if this isn’t already the case. There’s already an abundance of satellite data (likely exabytes in the next decade) that could be thrown into training datasets. It’s also less inflammatory than using AI systems for autonomous weapon design, say, and politically more feasible. So there’s a future in which A(G)I-powered reconnaissance systems have some transformative military applications, the military high-ups take note, and things snowball from there.
Sure, at the low end. I think there are lots of reasons the government is and will continue to be highly interested in AI for military purposes.
That’s AI; I’m thinking about competent, agentic AGI that also follows human orders. I think that’s what we’re likely to get, for reasons I go into in the instruction-following AGI link above.
Reconnaissance might be a candidate for one of the first uses of powerful A(G)I systems by militaries—if this isn’t already the case. There’s already an abundance of satellite data (likely exabytes in the next decade) that could be thrown into training datasets. It’s also less inflammatory than using AI systems for autonomous weapon design, say, and politically more feasible. So there’s a future in which A(G)I-powered reconnaissance systems have some transformative military applications, the military high-ups take note, and things snowball from there.
Sure, at the low end. I think there are lots of reasons the government is and will continue to be highly interested in AI for military purposes.
That’s AI; I’m thinking about competent, agentic AGI that also follows human orders. I think that’s what we’re likely to get, for reasons I go into in the instruction-following AGI link above.