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Jun 10 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Playing with GPT-3. It's really something.
'When Sun-Tzu met Clausewitz', a one-act play in the style of Aaron Sorkin, by GPT-3.
The Cuban missile crisis musical.
CASD, by Run DMC.
Jim Hacker & Sir Humphrey on Ukraine.
Note Hofstadter, though. "I would call GPT-3’s answers not just clueless but cluelessly clueless, meaning that GPT-3 has no idea that it has no idea about what it is saying. There are no concepts...there’s just an unimaginably huge amount of absorbed text" economist.com/by-invitation/…
I would read this. #gpt3
Siloviki in Torquay. #gpt3

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Jun 10
I asked #dalle2 (openai.com/dall-e-2/) for an ornate Mughal painting of an Apache helicopter. Some stunning results: ImageImageImageImage
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Jun 9
"Some fretted about an “ai winter”. But foundation models show that building ever-larger and more complex dl does indeed continue to unlock ever more impressive new capabilities. Nobody knows where the limit lies." economist.com/leaders/2022/0…
"A dog cannot laugh at a joke in the New Yorker, but an AI can explain why it is funny—a feat that is, frankly, sometimes beyond readers of the New Yorker." economist.com/leaders/2022/0…
Milestone: an AI foundation model generated the cover of this wk's @TheEconomist. "When we asked one of these models to create a collage using the title of this leader & nothing more, it came up w/ the cover art for our American & Asian editions, pictured" economist.com/leaders/2022/0…
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Jun 4
“US officials have in recent weeks been meeting regularly with their British and European counterparts to discuss potential frameworks for a ceasefire and for ending the war through a negotiated settlement…Among the topics has been a four-point framework proposed by Italy”
“Ukraine is not directly involved in those discussions, despite the US commitment to “nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine.” US and Ukrainian officials said the US has not been pressuring Ukraine to commit to a certain plan or directly pushing them to sit down with the Russians”
“US and western officials tell CNN that there is a growing concern that if the Russians and Ukrainians don’t get back to the table and work out a deal, the war will drag on – potentially for years.” cnn.com/2022/06/03/pol…
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Jun 1
Western official, speaking today, says Russian rate of advance has been 500 metres to 1km per day: "incremental but pretty steady gains...at a relatively slow pace." Severodonetsk "unlikely to be the crux of the campaign". More river crossings needed even after closure of pocket.
In Kherson "Ukrainian forces have gone on the offensive, making gains in an area relatively lightly held by Russia." Russia forced to defend its operational flanks. "And I think that's going to be an indicator of how the conflict may will unravel over the coming days and months".
HIMARS "particularly effective in terms of being able to engage targets & move or engage multiple targets in very quick succession, and it outperforms" systems Russia is deploying. Enables Ukr to go after Ru artillery, but also—with 80km range—interdict Russian supply in depth.
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May 31
What does the war mean for European strategic autonomy? One argument is that, in exposing Russian military shortcomings, it shows Europe could eventually defend itself. Another (see responses below) is that it has widened divisions within Europe on defence, making this harder.
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May 31
"What is comforting about blaming Russian failures on their practice [vs] their doctrine, is that it relieves Western militaries of any requirement to thoroughly examine their own...the doctrine for a river crossing operation is similar across militaries." warontherocks.com/2022/05/would-…
"Neither Russia nor the West has had operational or combat experiences relevant to the war in Ukraine in over a generation, if not actually since World War II." warontherocks.com/2022/05/would-…
"if the numbers being reported by each combatant are in the ballpark, these estimates show both sides are suffering significant attrition, most importantly in personnel. If [so] Ukraine is potentially in serious trouble if the war continues much longer" warontherocks.com/2022/05/would-…
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