it's easier to get AI vaporware funded than to get language programs fundedhttps://twitter.com/DARPA/status/1076190850651164674 …
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Paul Musgrave Retweeted DARPA
it's easier to get AI vaporware funded than to get language programs fundedhttps://twitter.com/DARPA/status/1076190850651164674 …
Paul Musgrave added,
the essential @charleskingdc essay on chronic federal underfunding of international studieshttps://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/decline-international-studies …
let's check in with the actual problems that US policymaking faces and ... this does not address the first-order ones even a bit
to be clear: I actually don't oppose funding this, but what drives me crazy is the combination of technological superiority and the utterly misguided model of how policymakers and operators could actually use this information
also this sort of thing has been around for decades and decades, and maybe the thing that's been holding us back has really been computing power, but on the other hand maybe it hasn't
I got to talk to a DARPA person a few years back; their big AI push at the time was building systems that could analyze academic publications in IR, etc., and draw inferable conclusions from them about how the world worked.
Either I or someone else asked: couldn't you just, like, fund academic work, and ask the academics what it all means? No, no, that's absurd. We need a computer program that can read the work, we can't actually just fund the work itself, or talk to people.
That it was an odd project seems kind of obvious. What was interesting to me is that it was strange on several very distinctly different levels — seemed like several misunderstandings were required to take place simultaneously to get such a thing funded. But what do I know.
I love the faith in academic IR I would probably...not have funded that project
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