[furryrain]

> Fully autonomous weapons. The cloud deployment surface covered in our contract would not permit powering fully autonomous weapons, as this would require edge deployment.

Can anyone explain this constraint?

Why do fully autonomous weapons require edge deployment?

Does "fully autonomous" in this context mean "disconnected from the Internet"?

If so, can a drone with Internet connectivity use OpenAI?

Or maybe it's about on-premise requirements: the military doesn't want to depend on OpenAI's DCs for weaponry, and instead wants OpenAI in their own DCs for that?

[squeaky-clean]

Could just be latency. You don't want your terminator killbot to take 200ms to decide where to aim.

[furryrain]

I feel gross thinking of it, but 200ms to decide a plan sounds not limiting. The act of enacting the decision could be done by local tracking compute.

[ajyoon]

My bullshit alarms were blaring at this line. They really think we are that stupid.

[furryrain]

It feels like a sleight of hand, either to not spook OpenAI employees (I.e. the audience of this post), or allow some later minor change in contract or interpretation or customer deployment posture to suddenly permit fully autonomous weapons.