In all my dealings with government entities, they were fucking clueless. Even the trained ones. Look over and all their PCs run Windows 95. Government websites look like they were coded by Homer Simpson.
But somehow, they got all this awesome, secret tech? I don’t buy it. Their power is in their numbers and endless budgets with very little recourse for fucking up. Not from being smart or even competent at their jobs.
DARPA and your DMV are not the same thing
It absolutely does not. I have worked for the US government doing “simulations” of UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles) control systems as a software engineer. I put simulation in quotes because they hardly qualify, they were using a shitty game engine from a shitty war game that was like 10 years old. Their tech was a shit show absolute garbage. The worst job I ever had. I do not believe they have anything we don’t see in the private sector or in academia. They don’t have secret tech like that.
When you say academia… do you mean private institutions only, or are you including public institutions and researchers that are funded by government grants?
Looks like I showed up late to the Internet correction party but: it’s unlikely.
With some historical exceptions, like USPS character recognition and China’s crowd scanning, today’s governments don’t have anywhere near the resources necessary to compete with big tech in current ML outside niche subdomains.
Governments do fund AI research (my funding is mostly from dept of defense) but Cold War era project scale is long gone, as best we can tell.
Only a year ago I was doing tech support for DARPA. Yeah, no. they’re still running Windows 7. A year prior to that I was doing some design work for the Pentagon and a lot of their computers are still Windows XP. You’d be woefully surprised how much is still running on COBAL
Government worker here too, can confirm our system runs on COBOL. The wizards who can program it have infinite job security.
People also believe that there’s a god that changes water into wine, walks on water, … too. People believe all sorts of stuff, weird or not.
Worry about things that you can do something about or explicitly react too.
I mean I live in germany, so sure hell no. They run Windows 10, and will panic when there will be no updates anymore.
They should get it to run for president, it would probably be a better option
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