World War Orwell!
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CHYNA!
State Of AI, December 2022
Gil PressDec 1, 2022,
…..Attempting to organize the explosion of large language models (or foundation models) and to make transparent what is known about them, Stanford announced a new benchmark project covering 30 prominent language models across a wide range of scenarios and for a broad range of metrics. “We need to know what this technology can and can’t do, what risks it poses, so that we can both have a deeper scientific understanding and a more comprehensive account of its societal impact,” says the Center for Research on Foundation Models at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. Of their 5 key findings, I liked most that “human evaluation [is] essential in some cases.”
While NeurIPS showcases the recent work oflarge centralized labs owned by Big Tech, there has been a dramatic increase this year in the frequency of open-source releases of the latest AI breakthroughs by small independent labs. This is one of the major conclusions of the 2022 edition of the State of AI Report from Nathan Benaich and Ian Hogarth. They highlight as prime examples “small, previously unknown labs like Stability.ai and Midjourney,” demonstrating a “fundamental shift in the previously accepted AI research dynamic that larger labs with the most resources, data, and talent would continually produce breakthrough research.”
Another conclusion of the report is thatChina continues to lead the world in AI research(measured by the number of papers published), and “significantly leading” in areas with implications for security and geopolitics.
The State of AI report defines AI Safety as “a field that studies and attempts to mitigate the catastrophic risks which future AI could pose to humanity” and it reports that anestimated 300 safety researchers are working at large AI labs, compared to under 100 in last year's report. But, says Andrew Ng, “without a broad international agreement on definitions of dangerous technology and how it should be controlled, people in other parts of the world will be free to ignore them. Considering the challenges, perhaps the best we can do is to work proactively and continually to identify potential misuses and ways to thwart them.”
Possibly not rising to the level of “catastrophic risks,” AI bias is very much on the mind of the AI community as one negative side effect of AI programs in general and large language models in particular.
The large language models that enable the mass deployment of text-to-image generation “amplify dangerous and complex stereotypes” and are a “cause for serious concern.” Experimenting with Stability.ai’s Stable Diffusion, the researchers found that the ”emotional person” was always a woman, “a terrorist” was always Middle Eastern in appearance, and “a thug” was always a Black man. The team at the HuggingFace blog has been working to improve their AI bias evaluation tool to include more nuances of discrimination. Jack Clark says that eventually, there will be as many approaches to evaluating AI bias as there are ideologies and countries. Tim O’Reilly says we can fix AI bias by first fixing ourselves.
On a more positive note, the application of AI models and algorithms to practical problems continues apace. AI-based retinal imaging and diagnostics startup AEYE Health received clearance from the FDA to market its diagnostic screening system for diabetic retinopathy. Using large language models, Seek AI automates the repetitive work that data professionals perform, improving their productivity.
This has been a random selection of recent news from the world of AI, defined as computer-assisted learning from data.
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God bless your mother and your family, peace be with you
POTUS knew what that statement would do in the DS, really in effect the Constitution was suspended the day Bidan stole the election. Its not a radical idea because its been ongoing since Nov 3, 2020 or much earlier when Covid hit America. Heads exploding everywhere because he says the quiet truth out loud!
We’ve been at war since at least March of 2020 when he locked up Cheyenne Mountain!
NORAD, Northcom Move Personnel To Cheyenne Mountain Bunker Amid Pandemic
March 30, 2020 / 11:01 PM
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CNN) - Some of the most critical US senior military commanders and nuclear and special operations forces are now operating under extraordinary protection measures to ensure that in the event of a sudden security crisis, including any potential nuclear mission, there will be enough healthy troops and leaders to carry out orders as the coronavirus pandemic grows.
There have only been vague references to many of these measures, but taken together, they present a picture of how much worry and effort is going into ensuring the pandemic stops short of impacting the nation's defense.
General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has publicly voiced concern that the military's readiness must be maintained.
"I think we will have moderate to low levels of readiness impacts," Milley said March 24, if the number of military cases remains relatively low.
In Colorado Springs, at the headquarters of NORAD and the Northern Command, so-called distributed operations are now in place. NORAD monitors US airspace against threats and intrusions, including Russian military aircraft. Northern Command is coordinating the military assistance for the pandemic.
"We are isolating specific command personnel involved in critical mission areas, including homeland defense functions," a US military official at the command told CNN. "To ensure we remain capable of defending the homeland despite the pandemic, our command and control watch teams here in the headquarters split into shifts."
Some of the watch teams are now working from Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, a Cold War-era bunker inside a nearby mountain.
"Additionally, our personnel are operating in pre-determined physical zones within the building. All command members are closely monitoring their own health as well as the health of their family members. This is mitigating exposure to our personnel and their families and to preserve our capability and capacity to execute our homeland defense and COVID-19 missions," the official said.
The strategy of having critical military personnel now work only in pre-specified zones and work in shifts is being replicated in other critical facilities including the Pentagon. Milley and Defense Secretary Mark Esper have been public for weeks about how much they are limiting contact with their own staffs, and not allowing large meetings inside the Pentagon. The numbers of workers coming to the Pentagon has been cut down by well over half.
But deep concern remains that they avoid a significant outbreak among those left. Pentagon leaders privately are adamant they don't want to have to shutter the doors, something that did not even happen on the day of the Sept. 11 attacks.
And at bases around the country and overseas, it may be impossible to contain an outbreak with so many troops living in local towns. That was one of the reasons Esper put a hold on all military moves for 60 days, affecting some 90,000 troops worldwide.
One Pentagon official, however, told CNN that when a worker at the Pentagon has the virus, it may no longer be possible to trace their contacts and only nearby co-workers may be initially notified someone in their office is ill.
All units involved in nuclear weapons operations are also taking specific precautions. Intercontinental ballistic missile crews are rotating to specifically ensure there is always a "clean team" that can take over if others are sick. Crews of submarines carrying nuclear missiles are isolating for several days before heading out into open ocean to ensure they are all healthy for their lengthy sea patrols. And with a jump in virus cases in Louisiana, there is fresh concern about isolating critical B-52 bomber crews at Barksdale Air Force Base, officials say.
Military officials have refused to discuss detailed arrangements for elite units such as the Navy's SEAL Team Six, the Army's Delta Force or highly specialized Air Force units, all of which can be called into action on a moment's notice for missions ranging from hostage rescue to counter terrorism to secret attacks on high-value targets behind enemy lines. But this week, the Army said its own rapid response units would go to the highest level of health protection known as "Delta," which would severely limit troop movements when they are at home or on their respective bases….
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/colorado-springs-dod-coronavirus-pandemic-troops/
NORAD’s Cheyenne Mountain Fortress Is Back in Business
The Pentagon reactivated its underground redoubt as backup homeland defense headquarters during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Pentagon reactivated its underground redoubt as backup homeland defense headquarters.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command complex in Colorado was designed to ride out a nuclear attack. The base was closed in the 2000s but reopened due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The base will take over air defense for the nation in case the primary base closes due to illness.
One of the U.S. Military’s most enigmatic military bases is open for business again because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Cheyenne Mountain, an underground facility carved into granite rock, was designed to deal with a nuclear attack on the U.S. and Canada. Its first real crisis, however, is the ongoing global pandemic. The base is up and running as a backup to the primary NORAD base, and its personnel is living in isolation to prevent them from picking up the virus.
The base at Cheyenne Mountain was built in the 1960s as the headquarters for North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD. NORAD is a joint U.S.-Canadian military command tasked to keep a watch on air and space, tracking objects approaching North America. The command was originally set up to track Soviet bombers, then ballistic missiles. After 9/11 it was also assigned a homeland defense mission, monitoring commercial airspace for signs of hijackings.
Cheyenne Mountain was designed to survive a nuclear attack and continue its early warning mission. The facility is carved out of solid granite and the entrance is protected by 25 ton steel doors. Buildings constructed inside sit on giant, 1,000 pound steel springs to absorb the shock of a nuclear blast. At its peak 1,800 U.S. and Canadian military personnel manned the facility, and dorm-style housing, cafeterias, food, water, and electricity made the facility self-sufficient in emergencies.
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NORAD’s Cheyenne Mountain Fortress Is Back in Business
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U.S. Military Command Teams Are Being Isolated At Cheyenne Mountain & Other Bunkers
March 30, 2020 Niamh Harris 6 Comments
The US Northern Command has sent teams of essential staff deep underground as the coronavirus spreads across the country.
Military command teams in charge of protecting homeland security are isolating at a number of military sites including the Cheyenne Mountain bunker in Colorado
RT reports: Air Force General Terrence O’Shaughnessy heads up the US’ Northern Command, as well as the North American Aerospace Defense Command – a joint US/Canadian operation that monitors the skies over North America for missile and airborne threats. Earlier this week, O’Shaughnessy told reporters via Facebook that some of his watch teams would be moved from their usual command center at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado to a number of hardened underground bunkers.
One of these facilities is the Cheyenne Mountain bunker complex, a warren of tunnels buried under 2,000 feet (610m) of granite, and sealed behind blast doors designed to withstand a 30 megaton nuclear explosion.
“Our dedicated professionals of the NORAD and NORTHCOM command and control watch have left their homes, said goodbye to their families, and are isolated from everyone to ensure they can stand the watch each and every day to defend our homeland,”O’Shaughnessy said. He also said that personnel sent underground will share the bunker with other members of the military, but he is “not at liberty to discuss who’s moving in there.”
Another team has been sent to an undisclosed location, O’Shaughnessy added.
Installations like Cheyenne Mountain are integral to the US government’s plan to survive a doomsday scenario. In the event of an existential threat to the US, a nuclear attack for instance, the president and his officials, as well as a contingent of political, military and civilian leaders would be immediatelyevacuated to four secure facilities to run the country from deep underground. These facilities are Cheyenne Mountain, the Presidential Emergency Operations Center under the White House, Raven Rock Mountain Complex in Pennsylvania, and Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center in Pennsylvania.
While the ongoing Covid-19 crisis has not triggered a mass exodus from Washington, it has prompted military leaders to take steps to ensure they remain combat ready. After admitting that the US military’s readiness could be affected by the pandemic, Defense Secretary Mark Esper stated on Thursday that the Pentagon would stop publishing precise details of Covid-19 cases within its ranks, to avoid revealing weaknesses to America’s adversaries.
As some of O’Shaughnessy’s forces head for the hills to wait out the pandemic in hermetic isolation, millions more on the surface will not have the same luxury. Army engineers have already been deployed to New York to scout locations for field hospitals, as the Empire State accounts for more than a third of the country’s 112,000 cases of the illness.
With the crisis deepening, the US military appears to be adopting an ‘all hands on deck’ approach, both on the ground and under. Though the US military is forbidden from carrying out law enforcement duties on American soil, President Trump signed an executive order on Friday authorizing the call-up of up to a million reserve and retired Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard personnel.
These reservists could be called upon to assist civilian authorities in responding to the pandemic, as the nearly 10,000 National Guard troops already deployed have been doing. On Saturday, Esper announced a modified law that would provide federal funding for states looking to deploy more of these troops.
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U.S. Military Command Teams Are Being Isolated At Cheyenne Mountain & Other Bunkers
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