back to article What better place to inject OpenAI's o1 than Los Alamos national lab, right?

OpenAI has announced another deal with Uncle Sam, this time to get its very latest models in the hands of US government scientists working on nuclear security and more. The Microsoft-backed AI maker today announced a US national lab partnership that will start with deployment of its reasoning-capable o1 LLM on Los Alamos …

  1. Eclectic Man Silver badge

    Midnight

    Was this decided before or after the bulletin of atomic scientists changed the clock?

    "It is now 89 seconds to midnight"

    https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/#post-heading

    1. cyberdemon Silver badge
      Mushroom

      Re: Midnight

      How about a nice game of Chess

  2. lnLog
    Terminator

    Most step by step reasoning is likely to come to the unhelpful? conclusion that the world would be a better place and would solve all humanities problems if humanity just ceased to exist

    1. cyberdemon Silver badge
      Alien

      Frankly, I am a just a little bit worried that the attendees of Trump's inauguration (Billionaires who are already spending Billions on constructing their own personal bunkers in New Zealand, and perhaps Greenland next) might have a dastardly plan inspired by Hugo Drax of Moonraker fame, whereby they see the world as having too many humans in it, and wish to start World War Three (which they are certainly in a position to do) and retire to their bunkers with some 'perfect specimens of humanity' so that they may inherit the Earth

      Said apocalypse could be survivable if killer robots, AI engineered disease, and/or sudden technological collapse were used, rather than nuclear weapons.

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Bunker-Making

        Why are they building new bunkers in New Zealand, when they could just refurbish the now-old bunkers the Nazis built in Norway?

  3. UnknownUnknown

    ChatGPT.Gov

    Does it have added Council Jobsworth-ness or HMRC incompetence baked into it ?

  4. Pascal Monett Silver badge
    FAIL

    "protect the US power grid"

    The only thing that will protect the US power grid is getting its network secured and off the general Internet.

    Anything else is fluff and pseudo-AI is not going to help.

  5. s. pam
    FAIL

    Skynet, meet Mr. Nuclear

    Mr. Nuclear you're now pwned by Skynet and will ONLY do as instructed by it. Oh yeah, that's a great use of Ain't Intelligence isn't it ;-)

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