Houthis used Anthropic to develop guided weapons

(washingtonpost.com)

59 points | by Alien1Being 2 days ago ago

29 comments

  • dnemmers 2 days ago

    More evidence that AI can be quite useful!

  • skavi 2 days ago

    Houthis use engineering and education to develop guided weapons

  • ChrisArchitect 2 days ago
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  • glaslong 2 days ago

    Back In My Day, you had to mod a PlayStation if you wanted to DIY a missile guidance system /s

  • aaron695 2 days ago

    [dead]

  • kelseyfrog 2 days ago

    AI is just a next word predictor. It cannot understand the development of guided weapons as it's not conscious.

    • cwillu 2 days ago

      One problem with well performed sarcasm is a noteworthy tendency to darken the text colour on hn

      • distances a day ago

        Indeed. My humble opinion is that sarcasm doesn't belong on discussion boards, even with the silly /s marker. Eventually it poisons everything it touches.

      • kelseyfrog 2 days ago

        I'm only in control of what I do, not what others do. Thus, I only judge myself by my own standards, not of others.

        • avmich a day ago

          Non sequitur. Can't live in a society and be free of it.

          • kelseyfrog a day ago

            Category error. When it comes to judgement, I am.

    • RealStupidity 2 days ago

      I'm just a next word predictor too

      • bamboozled 2 days ago

        Then society should have the right to end your life as soon as you're no longer useful as you've just reduced yourself to an algorithm, what value do you serve if you're just a next word predictor ?

        Reducing your self worth like that is a very stupid thing to do.

        • lern_too_spel 2 days ago

          How does describing something reduce its worth?

          • willy_k 2 days ago

            Its a grossly incomplete description. A reductive description.

            • skeledrew a day ago

              We use incomplete descriptions all the time. Like I could say "I'm an early riser". Is that reductive?

              • nagaiaida 15 hours ago

                would you care to share your interpretation of the function of the word "just" upthread? because that would appear to be the operative part doing the reducing that you've conveniently left out here.

                • skeledrew 8 hours ago

                  I could also say "I'm just a teacher". No significant difference made by "just" in this context, beyond giving flavour.

              • kelseyfrog a day ago

                All statements are reductive because language is injective to reality.

          • bamboozled 18 hours ago

            The reason people squash bugs with almost zero guilt is because they see the bugs as "nothing". If people voluntarily advertise themselves as "no things" or "just something" then you make the justification for similar treatment totally fine.

            How do you think those who who commit genocide see their victims?

    • dyauspitr 2 days ago

      This argument from 2024? We are all next word predictors, what matters is what the next word is.

  • atarian a day ago

    I wouldn’t be surprised if Iran’s strategy to shut down the Strait of Hormuz was ideated by AI.

    • hallgrim a day ago

      As far as I heard they had that strategy as a possibility for decades, US experts had warned the current and prior administrations about it’s possible ramifications, warning against attacking Iran for exactly this reason.

      The previous German minister of economy, Robert Habeck, had warned of such a situation a few years ago, too.

  • naveen99 2 days ago

    And the democrats expect us to believe Iran is not a puppet government of the United States. I mean Iran, Houthis, even Russia is using Claude… after pentagon pretended to ban Anthropic from the military…

    • willy_k 2 days ago

      Also, reality is not a work of fiction. Look for concrete reasons in things, not themes and allusions. Anthropic is used because they have a good product, it’s easy.

      • naveen99 a day ago

        The evil witch of the middle east doesn’t ask the wizard how to attack the wizard.

    • willy_k 2 days ago

      Wait I’m sorry, I’m all for suspecting US involvement in foreign countries because its probably happening, but what are you saying exactly? “The democrats” have had marginal if any power for two years. Any fuckling going on involves POTUS.

    • rc5150 a day ago

      show us on the doll where the evil democrats touched you. are they here in the room with us now?