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'At some point you've got to make money': Goldman's top AI skeptic warns the clock is running out ahead of OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs (fortune.com)
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[–] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

information-sharing between geographically dispersed research facilities

Research facilities doing DOD research.

I'm not sure why it would matter that you worked for them in the early 90s.

The president of the company got Vint and Bob on board because he was their military liason at Darpa.

The project I worked on was partially funded by Darpa. We reported weekly updates to a Lt Colonel.

The Internet was originally by the military and for the military and only later handed off to universities.

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yes, I will just take your word for it over the word of the original people involved.

    You keep talking about DARPA, when they're not the same organization that backed ARPANET. Arpanet came before laws were passed saying DARPA could only fund projects directly related to defense.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago

    ARPA was military.

    "From 1958 to 1965, ARPA's emphasis centered on major national issues, including space, ballistic missile defense, and nuclear test detection.[21] During 1960, all of its civilian space programs were transferred to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the military space programs to the individual services.[22]

    This allowed ARPA to concentrate its efforts on Project Defender (ballistic missile defense), Project Vela (nuclear test detection), and Project Agile (counterinsurgency R&D programs), and to begin work on computer processing, behavioral sciences, and materials sciences. The DEFENDER and AGILE programs formed the foundation of DARPA sensor, surveillance, and directed energy R&D, particularly in the study of radar, infrared sensing, and x-ray/gamma ray detection."

    ARPA was renamed to DARPA in 1972.

    "DARPA supported the evolution of the ARPANET (the first wide-area packet switching network), "

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA

    There was no Internet in 1972. It was ARPANET which was run by DARPA. The D was added to reaffirm that ARPA was the department of defense, not civilian research.

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