Yeah.. I am not sure where people are getting this idea that somehow the military manages to escape the same license hell other industries live with.

Huh? License restrictions are a pretty common and mundane part of the procurement bureaucracy. This one happened to hurt hegseth' feelings so it has blown up,

Given that the main restriction was 'mass surveillance', I guess we are at war with the american public?

Eh, the troll is just going through a fear response. People like that like to picture themselves as immune from, well, society,.. kings among humans that can not be influenced and are unaffected by social interactions.. which stupidly enough tends to make them extra vulnerable to it.

Kinda sounds like he is just excited at the idea of phones using up minutes without the user even asking it to. No longer will billable time be restricted to users making decisions to consume something, the phones will consume it for them!

Kinda seems like the goal might have been to tank negotiations. The US/Israel tactic for decades have been derailing talks by killing leaders and diplomats.

I really can not blame 'AI" or some mythical 'but they can't feel!' here. The researchers put together crappy models, plain and simple... though that is one of the weaknesses of machine learning research in general.. this whole assumption that you don't need to actually understand the subject matter or put any thought into your model, just throw data and compute at it, then blame it. Kinda reminds me of the old cookie :

A hacker who studied ontology
Was famed for his sense of frivolity.
                When his program inferred
                That Clyde ISA Bird
He blamed -- not his code -- but zoology!

Didn't we go through this just a couple of decades ago? Protectionist policies insulated the american market from competition, US manufacturers fell more and more behind their international rivals who had to actually compete with each other, which killed US export markets and really set the US auto industry back.

Over the years I've brushed up my AI skills with various classes. One trend I've noticed that I find rather disappointing.. in the earlier classes, you generally started with essentially building a math library. You started with the linear algebra, you build some matrix operation functions, you chained them together, built your layers, and essentially had to construct your networks using, at most, numpy. Then classes started jumping right into tensorflow... I think last class i tried to take I gave up on because the first steps were how to set up copilot in vscode..

Any time a massive company bets heavily on something being true that the public is skeptical about, naturally it has an incentive to claim really loudly that it is true.

Even better, lets see someone underwrite the insurance on the systems using it...

Though put another way, capitalism is political power and decision making is in the hands of the people with the most money.

Eh, I am old enough to remember the arguments about if writing things in high level languages counted as 'programming' since you were no longer making the program that goes on the hardware.

scripting? But yeah, while I can see how one could draw distinctions between 'programming' and 'scripting', I've also seen people argue that C/C++ are not 'programming' either, so the 'this isn't programming!' always seems a bit silly.

Though even odder, he seems to be saying that bad custom software is better than working solutions using existing tools. Spreadsheets might not be as sexy as a custom app that you can show your friends, but they are a pretty reliable and simple way of doing things. its like he wants the prestige of bespoke software to show off with, and doesn't care if it works or not.