implications hard to swallow for normies
Saw this in a previous notable digging on BlackSky, it was extremely interesting:
https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/31/20746926/sentient-national-reconnaissance-office-spy-satellites-artificial-intelligence-ai
"Sentient is (or at least aims to be) an omnivorous analysis tool, capable of devouring data of all sorts, making sense of the past and present, anticipating the future, and pointing satellites toward what it determines will be the most interesting parts of that future.
Insiders call that process âtipping and cueingâ: using a data tip-off from one source to cue a satellite to look at a particular spot, or using information from a satellite to spin up another instrumentâs collection. In the ideal version of that process, an automated system sucks in all sorts of data, synthesizes it into something sensible, cues the satellite symphony, reincorporates the satellitesâ data back into the analysis loop, comes to a smarter conclusion, points the satellites or other sensors again, and repeats the entire process. Do that well enough, and a company (or intelligence agency) could build a tower of knowledge about the past, comprehend present events faster than their competitors, and â maybe someday â predict the future.
All the images from the NRO, the military, and these commercial satellite firms, combined with other geospatial intelligence â anything that has a time tag and a location tag â create a vast amount of information thatâs far more than a literal army of people could comb through. To keep up with the fire hose of information, the NRO turns in part to AI. âSentient aims to help analysts âconnect the dotsâ in a large volume of data,â
Is this how Q "predicts the future"? Military (artificial) intelligence at its finest?