My hobby: following GOV.UK to look for interesting announcements. Today was an update on the MOD’s Rapid AI Delivery Taskforce which was previously announced in June during London Tech Week.
I like this line: “Success is measured in operational advantage delivered, not technology demonstrated.” To me it recalls “Working software is the primary measure of progress” from Principles behind the Agile Manifesto – if you understand “working” to mean “working in production”. Which I do.
For anyone interested in suggesting ideas to the taskforce, the four operational challenge areas include:
- Understanding and decision advantage
- Electromagnetic and information advantage
- Planning and automation
- Autonomous systems
Yesterday’s announcement of UK access to Ukraine’s Avengers AI Labs database seems incredibly relevant to that last point.
Machine assistance for handling and interpreting huge volumes of data would probably benefit decision advantage and interpretation of a crowded EM spectrum, but this is hopefully(?) more than just LLMs. Of course, there’s more to AI than large language models… right?
I worry that “planning and automation” might amount to “generating large amounts of text faster”. Nothing could possibly go wrong with this.