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“ With SPRINT, we're not just building an X-plane; we're building options”. Found the guy who couldn’t be bothered to write his own press release…

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I'm quite fond of the caption, which describes a "a proof-of-concept technology demonstrator that aims to demonstrate technologies and concepts"

Brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department.

I think I'd rather have them working on airplane tech rather than writing airplane tech press releases. With this approach, it's not just a tactical thing; it's relieving the burden of wordsmithing from technical people.

The technical people were never wordsmithing, they just didn't hire a technical writer. Instead of freeing up someone to do more design work, it freed someone to interview for a new job. I hope they get it.

> The technical people were never wordsmithing, they just didn't hire a technical writer. Instead of freeing up someone to do more design work, it freed someone to interview for a new job. I hope they get it.

Do technical writers work on press releases? This sounds more like a job for the public relations/corporate communications department.

It was a GPT.

Or, at least, my take on GPT. :) I promise I am a human.

You're absolutely right.

Good to hear that the DoD's new contract with OpenAI is solving all the most important problems...

It's a quote from someone...?

... who probably wrote their prepared PR statement with an LLM.

I have always talked/written like this. now that LLMs do it in a similar enough way, my own writing gets called AI slop. I just wish my rotator cuffs knew I was a robot.

It's probably good signal at least, if not a bit of a harsh thing to say that I don't mean in a bad way, that your writing was bland or mediocre since LLMs are basically regression to the mean.

Skimping on the service again, are we?

It feels like DARPA has fallen so far. In a post-Salt Typhoon era it's really hard to imagine them as dynamic, best-in-class innovators anymore.

This administration doesn't really prioritize anything that has to do with intelligence, so advanced research was obviously going to fall by the wayside.

https://www.iarpa.gov/research-programs

What are you saying? Do you think my claim was that all US research programs have closed up shop?

No search results for "Salt Typhoon" as the query. This nation really is fucked.

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