Pinned Tweet
Was talking to a friend about the DoD's AI "Argus", and I think this is a very important point that needs to be made and why our government deploying an AI shouldn't just be swept under the rug.
Him: "They’ve been monitoring all our phone calls/text messages/emails since before the modern digital age. Not to mention every device is required by law to have a built in back door for the NSA."
Right, yet now it is effortless to parse the vast amount of data that has been collected. Before, you would have something happen, and then go and query the data held for motive or anything that would help a case. Now, with Argus, they are able to collect even more information, transcribe any audio in real time, log it, and build profiles to send to the proper agents without the manual labor of humans.
For example: A man posts on Facebook that he feels like he wants to hurt someone. The AI then probes his data, sees he has recently had a conversation with his mother about being depressed or suicidal, and at the same time, it is building lists of any guns on record he may have access to. It also looks at his Google Maps search history to identify any places he has been looking at outside of his ordinary routine or perhaps soft targets. It compiles all that data in less than 5 minutes and sends a full report to agents to secure him. Pre-crime determined by AI is not a faraway fantasy but in progress.
The collection of data and the ability to actually utilize the data collected in a cohesive way is an important distinction that needs to be made. AI can accomplish in 5 minutes what would take a full team of agents 3 weeks to do. It's important to understand that we live in a new world now. Things have radically changed, even if the masses are not fully aware of it currently.
It's also important to highlight that the Department of Defense specifically mentions disinformation as one of the tasks Argus is trained to combat. The real regulations we need on AI are those that address the weaponization of AI by governments, both foreign and domestic. Not open source, or giving anyone one company a lead in the tech.
Stay mindful.
My post and source for the DoD's AI:
teapaw.org/PotentProzac/sta…
The Department of Defense has already deployed its advanced AI 'Argus' to map illicit activity around the world, enabling it to surpass human capabilities.
Accrete AI has unveiled its Argus dual-use anomaly detection AI agent at SOF Week 2023, an annual conference jointly held by US Special Operations Command and industry leaders in Tampa, Florida.
This artificial intelligence system can analyze vast amounts of online data to search for nefarious behavior hidden in plain sight, including predicting supply chain influence, software vulnerabilities, logistics resilience, viral disinformation, and insider threats.
thedebrief.org/pentagons-new…
At what point is the "slop" branding of AI content going to just show how brain dead the one using it is? AI is solving the unsolvable it's indistinguishably expert level in hundreds of domains. If you cant tell instantly as a prof what's AI maybe You are not relevant anymore.
I cannot imagine the sheer volume of AI slop that teachers and professors are dealing with right now. Your whole job must be just sifting through this crap. Nightmare.
22
Oh that's a slippery slope you got there
SITUATION DETECTED: Democrats on the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees are demanding President Donald Trump preserve any prompts sent to Grok as part of an inquiry into whether Elon Musk's model has played a role in shaping White House policy, per Politico.
36
Not as weird as you may think. Systems like this will become the digital mental asylum for the undateable. I personally think it's a net positive long term.
Also: 86% of adults 18 to 24 are unpartnered as of 2023.
51% of men under the age of 30 are unpartnered.
"Context window of 10M tokens."
Using the rule of thumb that 1 token is approximately ¾ of a word in English, 10 million tokens would correspond to roughly 7.5 million words.
Hype.
Today is the start of a new era of natively multimodal AI innovation.
Today, we’re introducing the first Llama 4 models: Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick — our most advanced models yet and the best in their class for multimodality.
Llama 4 Scout
• 17B-active-parameter model with 16 experts.
• Industry-leading context window of 10M tokens.
• Outperforms Gemma 3, Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Mistral 3.1 across a broad range of widely accepted benchmarks.
Llama 4 Maverick
• 17B-active-parameter model with 128 experts.
• Best-in-class image grounding with the ability to align user prompts with relevant visual concepts and anchor model responses to regions in the image.
• Outperforms GPT-4o and Gemini 2.0 Flash across a broad range of widely accepted benchmarks.
• Achieves comparable results to DeepSeek v3 on reasoning and coding — at half the active parameters.
• Unparalleled performance-to-cost ratio with a chat version scoring ELO of 1417 on LMArena.
These models are our best yet thanks to distillation from Llama 4 Behemoth, our most powerful model yet. Llama 4 Behemoth is still in training and is currently seeing results that outperform GPT-4.5, Claude Sonnet 3.7, and Gemini 2.0 Pro on STEM-focused benchmarks. We’re excited to share more details about it even while it’s still in flight.
Read more about the first Llama 4 models, including training and benchmarks ➡️ go.fb.me/gmjohs
Download Llama 4 ➡️ go.fb.me/bwwhe9
103
Next they'll say it was Open Source AI and it must be regulated..
A Green Beret needed help from AI to put fireworks and gas tanks into a trunk... Interesting..
🚨#BREAKING: Las Vegas police say that the man who was responsible for detonating the Tesla Cybertruck at the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas used generative AI to assist in planning the intricate details of the plot.
Imagine Canada joining the US as the 51st state and immediately becoming the second worst GDP per capita state in the whole country. Sad.
Canada gdp per capita as of 2023- $53,372
I cannot understand why anyone would still be using Google.
I know I've been saying this for a year and half now, but please use @perplexity_ai for a week. You won't look back. Natural language search is simply unbeatable..
97
please, for the love of all things good can we get @perplexity_ai added to the default search engines in @brave
The mind of a scholar
The heart of a poet
Suffering in abundance
The will to get through it
Happiness is the journey
Never the destination
66
Nice, we are now in the future of high density storage using DNA.
DNA based computers can now "play chess".
"DNA strands and using an enzyme to process these strands, producing RNA copies that represent valid solutions"
perplexity.ai/page/dna-compu…
