White House orders Pentagon and Intel agencies to increase use of AI

The more I reflect on this article, the more it seems that companies like OpenAI have quickly gained influence through lobbying, which is somewhat alarming. It raises concerns about how vulnerable the government may now be to aggressive lobbying efforts by corporations looking to profit from federal budgets—essentially, massive sums of money.

With recent claims about OpenAI's growth, I'm questioning if they expect that most of the growth will come from government contracts rather than just general subscriptions. While enterprise companies are slow and cautious about LLM integrations, the government can be an easy target for current hype.

"We're already AI'ing as fast as we can!"

This sort of edict will result in wasteful spending and boondoggles that will make the front page of Hacker News a year from now.

But it will also light a fire under some parts of government that have been slow to adopt AI, genuinely increase the level of AI sophistication across the military, and result in some actually valuable technology developments.

It would be nice if there were a more efficient way to accomplish the good without the bad, but when time is of the essence, I'm not sure there is. Perhaps it's not all that different from VC investments: when an area is hot, many investments get made, most of which fail, but the ones that succeed hopefully justify it all.

*intel, not Intel

"I command you to do more linear algebra"

The red one. It has more RAM!

I think Jake Sullivan's protectionist philosophy is super old school. I'm not a huge fan since it's just more Cold War-era policies coming out of Biden's cabinet. I'm speaking about the policies of lawmakers only and not the politics.