Palantir

[Sekonda]

Cet article par un ancien salarié est sans doute le meilleur que j'ai lu sur Palantir. 

https://www.piratewires.com/p/reflections-on-palantir

[Arlequin/TuringMachine]

https://www.ft.com/content/7f80b1bc-114c-4a00-ad06-6863fb435822 En dépit des bruits d'un retrait américain de l'OTAN - les affaires marchent plutôt bien pour Palantir de ce côté-là: ils viennent de signer en un temps apparemment record un contrat avec l'OTAN pour mettre en place un système d'analyse de combat et de contrôle opérationnel en temps réel, le Maven Smart System. 

 

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Palantir’s Maven Smart System (MSS Nato) uses generative AI, machine learning and large language models to provide “commanders with a secure, common operational capability” and will be used to support ongoing Nato operations, the alliance said on Monday.

Such “battle space management systems” allow 20-50 soldiers to do the work sifting through battlefield data that teams of hundreds or even thousands did in recent conflicts such as Afghanistan and Iraq.

“It’s able to take the place of entire teams doing these rather dull tasks,” said Noah Sylvia, analyst at Royal United Services Institute, a London-based think-tank.

 

Celui-ci sera, d'après l'article, très rapidement opérationnel, ce qui est assez atypique pour ce genre de produits. 

 

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Nato is moving at speed to step up its defence technology capabilities. The contract took just six months to complete — “one of the most expeditious in Nato’s history”, according to the alliance — and the system is expected to be operational within the next 30 days.

“The fact that it was procured in six months is insane by defence standards,” Sylvia said. “It typically takes years by the time that software is procured, certified, and then deployed. And by then it’s typically out of date.”

 

[Adrian]

Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business

 

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Palantir CEO and Trump ally Alex Karp is no stranger to controversial (troll-ish even) comments. His latest one just dropped: Karp believes that the U.S. boat strikes in the Caribbean (which many experts believe to be war crimes) are a moneymaking opportunity for his company.

At the New York Times’ DealBook Summit on Wednesday, Karp was asked about the worries over the unconstitutionality of the boat strikes.

 

“Part of the reason why I like this questioning is the more constitutional you want to make it, the more precise you want to make it, the more you’re going to need my product,” Karp said. His reasoning is that if it’s constitutional, you would have to make 100% sure of the exact conditions it’s happening in, and in order to do that, the military would have to use Palantir’s technology, for which it pays roughly $10 billion under its current contract.

 

“So you keep pushing on making it constitutional. I’m totally supportive of that,” Karp said.

 

[Tramp]

Je ne comprends pas la logique. 

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J'ai l'impression que nous sommes dans un phénomène de Gros Micro Mou (© H16).

C'est comme s'il avait voulu dire que peu importe le choix qui est fait, on va devoir utiliser ses produits pour déterminer si les règles ont été respectées.