Technology

Odd to consider that Nvidia is now an arms dealer.

It's the NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16 GB. From the Ampere family, 3.5 years old. Small Tegra SoC.

I guess something like this is a typical dual use good, and doesn't fall under the AI Chip export restriction either because it's too weak. Seems like it would be trivial for Russians to import them from China or India or whomever really.

As someone with previous defense connections, I'd been wondering when we'd see this.

ITAR has severely restricted access to nav system tech export, but there was always this open question about reckoning position by visual cues rather than GPS + dead reckoning. We all knew it was technically feasible, but we assumed that having "visual" cues was further out because AI at the time wasn't up to the task.

The answer is the same, though. Nvidia, willing or not, is now a defendant in an unjust war, and must be subpoena'd by the ICC. At a minimum, they should be immediately sanctioned by foundry specialists (like ASML) until they are prepared to account for how, exactly, this tech ended up in a Russian missile.

remember when A ps3 was considered militarily significant....

good old days

"Vhen rockets go up, who cares vhere zey come down? Zat's not my department!"

Sarcasm aside, you can buy these in dev kits on MicroCenter:

https://www.microcenter.com/product/691058/nvidia-jetson-orin-nano-super-developer-kit

Which means the components are pretty widely available. I'm not sure how you'd prevent someone from ordering a bunch to an in-between country and then shipping them on to Russia after.

By all means consider Nvidia a valid military target

Global Capitalism > Discrete Imperialism

oh, that washing machine technology is getting more and more advanced.

Can it play doom?

Oh yeah, well Russia found a copy of The Sims 3 in a Ukrainian Neptune missile, so now they're even!

It makes sense to use Machine Learning technology (not the Generative crap, the actual pattern recognition stuff) for terminal target recognition.

The surprise would be if Russia did not use AI in their newest cruise missile design - just because their society is fucked up and their leadership is a socipathic, disconnected autocrat surrounded by yes men that put his own personal pride above the lives of millions of his countrymen, doesn't mean Russia doesn't have the people with the technical knowledge to design systems with AI (though certainly far fewer of those than they had before they tried to invade Ukraine, since a ton of the Russians with the highest qualifications left).

I mean, given them another 50 years or so in their current trajectory, but for now they're probably still capable of creating their own high-tech solutions in focused applications.

ai gives me faith that those rockets will miss more than they hit

Does this mean it can play Doom?

this is why you can't have videogame cards anymore.

Ukraine-Russia war is in the interest of the USA