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Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school

974 points · 553 comments · devonnull

  1. imranq · · focus · HN ↗
    > Officials said some users expected Maven to flag stale records or contradictions in the intelligence assembled for potential targets, though it is not clear why they thought the system would do that

    This is what happens when people who don't understand AI and its limitations embrace it wholeheartedly, thinking it's going to behave like The ultimate analyst. Except it's not. Its got blind spots in more places than anyone knows. And not to mention the system itself has multiple areas of failure.

    1. TZubiri · · focus · HN ↗
      can't read because of paywall, are we talking the Java package manager Maven?
      1. mahboi · · focus · HN ↗
        Google's military Project Maven? Thought that never happened
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