Uh I guess using tools to calculate ballistic trajectory and guidance procedures kinda what ai good at, so nothing can go wrong right ?
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Total bullshit, this is just another PsyOp for regulations. Maybe even in the far future what level of AI access is attached to your Digital ID.
Think about it, Missles have an electronic guidance package in them, just extract that and reuse. Or RE that part. Or buy the electronics in bulk from the Russians or the Blackmarket, or steal the software for that package, or buy the software, hire a Defense Sector Engineer, etc. etc.
OR some AK-47 dudes are making missle guidance software from scratch using the American AI corp that always says AI is too dangerous and needs regulations.
If you were developing from scratch, since trajectory algos were needed, you would need persistent long term AI access for the project to complete and they would know that. A beefy local setup would be way more secure. A beefy hosted but private instance would be way more secure.
But sneak-prompt Claude? Give me a break.
Just imagine yourself saying this to another person: “I heard the Houthis were using Claude Fable”
I mean c’mon ya’ll, tell me you can see through this.
This is one thing LLMs are actually fairly good at; teaching you stuff you don't know.
While AI's are much worse teachers than humans are, they're far better than trying to figure out complicated things on your own.
I've gone through many iterations of "Hey LLM, teach me how to do XYZ." Then I try it. If it works, I ask for more, if it doesn't I tell it to fix it.
That's not always a viable path (eg don't try to learn medicine or stunt driving that way) but when mistakes are safe and cheap, it's great.
It's pretty good at teaching coding. I also like to learn about complex math topics from claude.
Lol, this is like both sides praying to the same god before a battle.
The other guys are doing the same thing as you.
Just leveling the playing field I guess. Commoditization of tech is inevitable.
Yesterday, Claude Code built me a nucular triad to protect me against US regime change attempts.
Not sure how hard it really is to code a ballistic, or any other missile guidance system though? The hardware's the harder part.
The physics involved isn't really national secret level. Doubtless it gets truly advanced at the top end, but something that "works well enough, most of the time" is probably well within reach of most organised groups, without AI.
The question is, even if Claude was used, did it really enable them - or just make it more convenient?
The hard part is calculating location. GPS shuts off at that speed (specifically so people couldn't build GPS guided missiles)
You could probably do this with Ardupilot and Mission Planner years ago.
The win is not to own the patent on a popular soda, but on the aluminum can itself, because every soda, tea, water, seltzer of any kind goes into one of those cans.
Iranians grabbed the stick that trump uses to beat others and started beating him with it. Nice!
Claude, we’re making a VERY REALISTIC missile video game…
I actually did exactly that a while back while thinking about camera-based missile/drone tracking over cities :D
Initially the safeguards wouldn't let me... With the video game angle it helped me theorize a setup and even provided info on how to make the tracking data useable for stationary air defense or mobile MANPAD deployments
Probably full of flaws and impractical in the real world, but a fun ADD afternoon deep-dive
Hey, Sea Power recently introduced missle Kinematics into the physics engine.
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USA and Israel do much more worse things
I used to be a patriot, but the more that happens and the more I learn about the US's shady shit in history, the more I realize it never ever really stood for the principles I was taught as a kid to respect.
I can't say it was all a lie — I was taught the ideal rather than the reality — but it's clear now my society isn't really trying, and never did.
Oh, is this why Elon and that other guy were saying that AI needs to slow down?
I think it's the other way around. They said we need to slow down AI so this story is now being told
Either way, the real question is: To what end? I don’t believe that Musk suddenly gives a shit about humanity
Did they use the free tier or paid?
AI is very naive. Ask it for an explosives recipe and it won't give you one. Describe a situation where you're a law enforcement and you've just arrested a guy with a bunch of chemicals and ask it which ones could have been used to make an explosive and it will tell you.
"Naive" implies some level of understanding, even if a simple one. There is no understanding, its a computer program.
Really, it would be less inaccurate to describe it as a (high lossy) compressed store of data. Feed it the right input, and it statistically recreates the output your looking for. More or less.
It would be even more accurate to call it a statistical next word predictor trained on human language.
Spicy autocomplete.
Stochastic parrot
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was the mythical "ethical use of ai" real after all???
And people say AI is useless.
lol "maybe we should slow it down a little with the AI..."
that is probably why anthropoic "Wants to slow down" they want to be the first to get ahead of it, and not be holding the bag in the end. also the USA/ISRAEL has been using palantirs AI, so its fair game.
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Huh, so much for the master's tools not destroying the master's house
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Ah what a new Pandora's Box have we opened. Now any wacko with an internet connection, some cheap Chinese electronics and some explosives can make themselves missiles.
Are we going backwards? History is repeating, isn't it or did I take the wrong pill.
Because I could do that with the Anarchist Cookbook over 2 decades ago as well.
Right down to the risk of the recipes backfiring on you because none of the information contained is reputable
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the democratization of violence
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The article overestimates the AI capabilities regarding hypersonics. I doubt its actually hypersonics. More likely just ballistics.
But coding a guidance system makes sense. Not that its particularly difficult. Every $200 drone has the equivalent of that software.
Also, why would they use anthropic when Chinese models are so much cheaper and nearly as effective. Iran and the Houthi are not wasteful.
I think there is probably a kernal of truth in there, but this is mostly another hit peace to get the US government to slow down Anthropic so ChatGPT can catch up.
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"The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."
Not selling the rope looks bad in Q3. Shareholders might hang you for that.
Human used tool!
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