Palantir abandons any attempt at curating nice-guy image with 'Global Information Dominance Experiments'
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For example, publicising a project under the title "Global Information Dominance Experiments", run by the US Airforce, might not be first on the list to create a friendlier image. But that's not for Palantir.
As if inviting comparison with Bond villains only a Bacofoil bodysuit and height-challenged sidekick would add to, the project "was designed to enable cross-combatant command collaboration to generate globally-integrated effects using artificial intelligence-enabled information," according to the [3]US military description .
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Palantir chief operating officer Shyam Sankar said on an [5]earnings call : "The meta-constellation… is radically changing how satellites are tasked, the latency of collection, and it's creating a fundamental link in that AI-enabled decision chain."
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Sankar added: "We orchestrated a meta-constellation of 237 satellites by working with an array of commercial space companies. These companies have been deploying constellations of hyperspectral, radar, and elite sensors into orbit. It's one of the largest collaborative sensor constellations ever to see operation."
[8]In the Navy, we want to share data with some ease. In the Navy, can someone help us with this please?
[9]NHS England staff voice concerns about access controls on US spy-tech firm Palantir's COVID-19 data store
[10]Of all the analytics firms in the world, why is Palantir getting its claws into UK health data?
[11]Palantir co-founder, CEO Alexander Karp gets $1.1bn bumper payday in IPO year
Shannon Morahan, recruiting operations analyst at the AI firm, said that its meta-constellation software "harnesses the power of growing satellite constellations, deploying AI into space to provide insights to decision-makers here on Earth."
"As it orbits, the Edge AI platform hot-swaps the right micro models in, rapidly reconfiguring the satellite. The models process imagery, they detect submarines, geo-locate them, and then determine any movement since the last collection passed, all in under a second," she claimed.
As well as military application, the technology could find indications of wildfires to help understand how climate change is affecting crop productivity, she suggested.
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The occasion for the call was Palantir's Q2 results. Revenue grew 49 per cent compared with the same period last year to reach $376m. However, losses from operations continued to deepen, to $146m from $99m.
But COO Sankar didn't just dial in to describe the dry stuff. He was also at pains to point out Palantir's unusual approach to recruitment. The company is looking for "unique and extraordinary people who by definition are going to be uneven and spiky" to develop them.
"Who can they be? How do we maximize them and their potential? We spend time thinking about exactly what gamma radiation, your incoming Bruce Banner needs to turn into the Incredible Hulk, and then we irradiate them," he said.
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Even if he is a good guy at heart, the [14]Incredible Hulk has well-documented anger-management issues. Maybe not the sort of character you want with the keys to the "Global Information Dominance Experiments" then. ®
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[1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/26/palantir_s_1_ipo_filing_ice/
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2016/11/22/thiel_asks_silicon_valley_to_help_trump/
[3] https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2703548/norad-usnorthcom-lead-3rd-global-information-dominance-experiment/
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[8] https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/23/royal_navy_data_integration/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/05/palantir_covid_data_store/
[10] https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/15/palantir_uk_sci_tech_committee/
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[14] https://www.theregister.com/2018/04/26/will_the_marvel_universe_last_for_ever/
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Re: "unique and extraordinary people who by definition are going to be uneven and spiky"
It did sound familiar but then I remembered I have ethics and a conscience.
Re: "unique and extraordinary people who by definition are going to be uneven and spiky"
So sorry to hear that, you'll have to make do with righteous poverty. You have my deepest sympathies.
Re: "unique and extraordinary people who by definition are going to be uneven and spiky"
Nice guy image?
That's Bruce Banner innit?
Re: "unique and extraordinary people who by definition are going to be uneven and spiky"
Sounds like Palantir has the gamma radiation solution to your ... ethics problem.
Eh?
"...was designed to enable cross-combatant command collaboration to generate globally-integrated effects using artificial intelligence-enabled information,"
It looks like, from this statement, that they have got the AI writing the PR bumf as well.
What in the name of God does it mean?
Re: Eh?
It means they have Dominic Cummings writing the bullshit. Sounds like he wrote the recruitment flyer, too.
Re: Eh?
James Hacker: "Humphrey, what does it mean?"
Sir Humphrey Appleby: "Well, minister, you see, in the eventuality that several arms of government or indeed the armed forces combined with other forces, not necessarily armed but possibly armed, but collaborating with forces which are democratically controlled by elected representatives, such as yourself, or their appointees, it would be prescient to ensure that intelligence, by which I mean information interpreted by experts for particular purposes, can be used, with due consideration to required purposes of the aforementioned elected representatives or their designated appointees to pursue said purposes or objectives with all due cognisance of the actual real-world situation and consequences with the utmost effectiveness and economy taking into account the collaboration with our allies and the likely responses of our not so allies and those states and organisations, such as criminal organisations with which we are not currently allied to ensure that the most up to date and cutting edge technology is employed to ensure decisions are made to the best effect." (Smiles condescendingly)
Hacker: "You don't know, do you?"
Appleby: (pause) "No, Minister."
> The models process imagery, they detect submarines, geo-locate them, and then determine any movement since the last collection passed, all in under a second," she claimed.
Generally speaking, when submarines don't want to be detected they can stay underwater for long periods of time, where they cannot be detected by satellite.
China has an underground port for submarines on Hainan island, specifically to prevent counting the total number of submarines, and how many are in port.
That sounds more like tracking cartel drug deliveries.
Forget Trump - Peter Thiel is the one to worry about
Peter Thiel has the best chance of becoming Authoritarian dictator and turning the USA into a dystopia with the information that Planitir has access to; this is utter BS. With $5 billion tax free just in his Roth IRA account; giving millions to the man who attempted to over throw the will of the people, and the sucking of blood teenagers to try and live forever; this man is obviously a nut job very dangerous to democracy.
"and then we irradiate them," he said.
I think it would be dangerous to assume he was using a metaphor here
Just cut to the chase, you're building Skynet aren't you?
troubling
re: "The models process imagery, they detect submarines, geo-locate them, and then determine any movement since the last collection passed, all in under a second"
s/submarines/$target/;
# where $target is one or more of protesters, Uighers, etc.
Getting a bit tired of military project names that seem chosen to win the next episode of "Quien es mas macho?"; would these not just create targets to be taken down a peg or two? In this particular case Global Information Dominance Experiments, acronym-izes to GIDE, who (Andre Gide) has written on the subjects of individual thought, conformity, morality, empire, and other topics which might give pause to military brass (he apparently did sour on communism, though, maybe that's what they were after). And also had a fondness for young boys. Or so sez Wikipedia --https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Gide Whatever his proclivities, I don't think his name deserves to be associated with this latest mess.
"unique and extraordinary people who by definition are going to be uneven and spiky"
That sounds like almost all of the Register's commentators on the threads. Can I work from home?