Do we have a good idea of how prominent AI research labs compare to the resources that go into Five Eyes AI models for intelligence analysis and for Chinese government pursuits?
I’ve forgotten at this point who they are, but I will ask some of my friends later to give me some of the public URLs of the “big players” working in this space so you can partly see for yourself. Their marketing is really impressive because government contractors, but I encourage you to actually look at the product on a technical level.
Largely: the NSA and its military-industrial partners don’t come up with new innovations, except as applies to handling the massive amounts of data they have and their interesting information security requirements. They just apply technologies and insights from companies like OpenAI or DeepMind. They’re certainly using things like large language models to scan your emails now, but that’s because OpenAI did the hard work already.
More importantly, when they do come up with innovations, they don’t publish them on the internet, so they don’t burn much of the “commons”, as it were.
Largely: the NSA and its military-industrial partners don’t come up with new innovations, except as applies to handling the massive amounts of data they have and their interesting information security requirements.
There was a large amount of time when the NSA did come up with cryptography-related math innovations in secret and did not share that information publically.
The NSA does see itself as the leading employer of mathematicians in the United States. To the extent that those employees come up with groundbreaking insights, those are likely classified and you won’t find them in the marketing materials of government contractors.
Do we have a good idea of how prominent AI research labs compare to the resources that go into Five Eyes AI models for intelligence analysis and for Chinese government pursuits?
I’ve forgotten at this point who they are, but I will ask some of my friends later to give me some of the public URLs of the “big players” working in this space so you can partly see for yourself. Their marketing is really impressive because government contractors, but I encourage you to actually look at the product on a technical level.
Largely: the NSA and its military-industrial partners don’t come up with new innovations, except as applies to handling the massive amounts of data they have and their interesting information security requirements. They just apply technologies and insights from companies like OpenAI or DeepMind. They’re certainly using things like large language models to scan your emails now, but that’s because OpenAI did the hard work already.
More importantly, when they do come up with innovations, they don’t publish them on the internet, so they don’t burn much of the “commons”, as it were.
I can’t give much insight on china, sadly.
There was a large amount of time when the NSA did come up with cryptography-related math innovations in secret and did not share that information publically.
The NSA does see itself as the leading employer of mathematicians in the United States. To the extent that those employees come up with groundbreaking insights, those are likely classified and you won’t find them in the marketing materials of government contractors.