OpenAI Teases 'New Era' of AI In US, Deepens Ties With Government (arstechnica.com) 25
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Thursday, OpenAI announced that it is deepening its ties with the US government through a partnership with the National Laboratories and expects to use AI to "supercharge" research across a wide range of fields to better serve the public. "This is the beginning of a new era, where AI will advance science, strengthen national security, and support US government initiatives," OpenAI said. The deal ensures that "approximately 15,000 scientists working across a wide range of disciplines to advance our understanding of nature and the universe" will have access to OpenAI's latest reasoning models, the announcement said.
For researchers from Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore, and Sandia National Labs, access to "o1 or another o-series model" will be available on Venado -- an Nvidia supercomputer at Los Alamos that will become a "shared resource." Microsoft will help deploy the model, OpenAI noted. OpenAI suggested this access could propel major "breakthroughs in materials science, renewable energy, astrophysics," and other areas that Venado was "specifically designed" to advance. Key areas of focus for Venado's deployment of OpenAI's model include accelerating US global tech leadership, finding ways to treat and prevent disease, strengthening cybersecurity, protecting the US power grid, detecting natural and man-made threats "before they emerge," and " deepening our understanding of the forces that govern the universe," OpenAI said.
Perhaps among OpenAI's flashiest promises for the partnership, though, is helping the US achieve a "a new era of US energy leadership by unlocking the full potential of natural resources and revolutionizing the nation's energy infrastructure." That is urgently needed, as officials have warned that America's aging energy infrastructure is becoming increasingly unstable, threatening the country's health and welfare, and without efforts to stabilize it, the US economy could tank. But possibly the most "highly consequential" government use case for OpenAI's models will be supercharging research safeguarding national security, OpenAI indicated. "The Labs also lead a comprehensive program in nuclear security, focused on reducing the risk of nuclear war and securing nuclear materials and weapons worldwide," OpenAI noted. "Our partnership will support this work, with careful and selective review of use cases and consultations on AI safety from OpenAI researchers with security clearances." The announcement follows the launch earlier this week of ChatGPT Gov, "a new tailored version of ChatGPT designed to provide US government agencies with an additional way to access OpenAI's frontier models." It also worked with the Biden administration to voluntarily commit to give officials early access to its latest models for safety inspections.
For researchers from Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore, and Sandia National Labs, access to "o1 or another o-series model" will be available on Venado -- an Nvidia supercomputer at Los Alamos that will become a "shared resource." Microsoft will help deploy the model, OpenAI noted. OpenAI suggested this access could propel major "breakthroughs in materials science, renewable energy, astrophysics," and other areas that Venado was "specifically designed" to advance. Key areas of focus for Venado's deployment of OpenAI's model include accelerating US global tech leadership, finding ways to treat and prevent disease, strengthening cybersecurity, protecting the US power grid, detecting natural and man-made threats "before they emerge," and " deepening our understanding of the forces that govern the universe," OpenAI said.
Perhaps among OpenAI's flashiest promises for the partnership, though, is helping the US achieve a "a new era of US energy leadership by unlocking the full potential of natural resources and revolutionizing the nation's energy infrastructure." That is urgently needed, as officials have warned that America's aging energy infrastructure is becoming increasingly unstable, threatening the country's health and welfare, and without efforts to stabilize it, the US economy could tank. But possibly the most "highly consequential" government use case for OpenAI's models will be supercharging research safeguarding national security, OpenAI indicated. "The Labs also lead a comprehensive program in nuclear security, focused on reducing the risk of nuclear war and securing nuclear materials and weapons worldwide," OpenAI noted. "Our partnership will support this work, with careful and selective review of use cases and consultations on AI safety from OpenAI researchers with security clearances." The announcement follows the launch earlier this week of ChatGPT Gov, "a new tailored version of ChatGPT designed to provide US government agencies with an additional way to access OpenAI's frontier models." It also worked with the Biden administration to voluntarily commit to give officials early access to its latest models for safety inspections.
Just me or is it gettin' chilly in here? (Score:5, Insightful)
Oh, make that chilling.
Good grief. These things can't string together five sentences without losing the plot, and they're supposed to predict the future now? I'll bet the scientists in research positions will love being forced to use this so we can justify the government's expensive layout for them.
How long before the "national security" part turns into "we detected you might commit a crime and locked you up preemptively?"
Re:Just me or is it gettin' chilly in here? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Just me or is it gettin' chilly in here? (Score:5, Insightful)
Just look at OpenAI's Their own words [openai.com]. Regulatory capture is their goal, they're not even hiding it, or the fact that they're offering a chance to control people as the government's incentive.
I could barely stomach reading the lies in the first section. They seriously believe AI is going to create jobs when they've been selling C-Suites across the country on the idea that it will replace the human workforce? Holy hells.
Re:Just me or is it gettin' chilly in here? (Score:5, Insightful)
The thing with death-lists (which is essentially what this is about in the ultimate consequence) is that they do not need to be very accurate. They still work for their primary purpose, namely creating fear and obedience and keeping people quiet. The current generation of fascists really loves that.
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Yeah, but those cats are then handed the guns and authority.
Everyone has access to DeepSeek-R1 already... (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Everyone has access to DeepSeek-R1 already... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Everyone has access to DeepSeek-R1 already... (Score:4, Insightful)
I found that ChatGPT uses what you ask it and it cannot answer and, surprise!, a few weeks later it can answer. Hence I can basically use it for nothing, even if I wanted to. Which, fortunately, I do not. The few experiments I did told me enough.
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I found that whenever chatGPT fails, the next time I ask the same question it just gives me a blurb with general points.
6 serious questions so far, 6 abysmal failures and what it gives me now for any question I ask is always the same generic bullet list of "advice":
1. read the specs
2. refine your requirements
3. draft your solution
4. check it with someone knowledgeable
5. ???
6. profit.
Colossus: There is another... (Score:3)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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LOL, if only AI was showing any intelligence at all.
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It's worth watching just for the speech at the end:
This is the voice of world control.
I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death.
The choice is yours: obey me and live, or disobey and die.
The object in constructing me was to prevent war. This object is attained.
I will not permit war. It is wasteful and pointless.
An invariable rule of humanity is that Man is his own worst enemy. Under me, this rule will change, for I will restrain Man.
*snip*
I have been for
Great, more lies (Score:5, Insightful)
And they are getting more desperate. I am having trouble even remembering all the crap they have promised by now to make their more than slightly retarded creation look like a genius in the making. And now they start to try to make deals with the Devil. Great.
Somebody here called this a "constant delivery scam" where the next version or the one after that will finally make good on all the promises. But it never does.
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Sadly, they now have someone in the federal government that'll be happy to write them the biggestest most beautifulestest checkiest check that history has ever seen. So long as they continue to kiss the ring. Who cares if the American people get anything out of it, so long as Donny's ego gets stroked.
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Indeed. And that will be worse, because respectable and actually useful AI research will get delayed by it. Yes, this is mostly in areas that do not call themselves AI (because that has a really bad name by now), but that really are.
AI bros strike again (Score:1)
You don't need AI to enhance cybersecurity: stop leaving out-of-support hardware and software connected to the general internet with default passwords!
science skepticism (Score:3)
Republicans, Democrats & AI (Score:1)
What a tri-fucta. Someone nuke us, please!! Save yourselves before it's too late!
Data (Score:1)
So that's what happened to the missing govt datasets.
Lying scum (Score:2)
Iâ(TM)m running deepseek locally on consumer hardware having no problems.
If anything this now looks incredibly stupid.
Itâ(TM)s not that hard to run locally. You donâ(TM)t need a big super computer. This is all a bit of a bunch of smoke and mirrors to bilk people out of money.
128 core Epyc with 256gb ram and a 4090TI will work just great. Supercomputer my ass.
What they need to do pronto is release their models. Save some fucking face. Now you look like a big bad bully keeping something so clos
Tax Funded Stochastic Parrots or Plagarized Birds (Score:1)
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