Episode 30: Finland in NATO, UGVs and ChatGPT for Intelligence Analysts with Marcel Plichta
Grey DynamicsShow Notes
This week I caught up again with Marcel Plichta. Marcel is a member of the Grey Dynamics team, he is also a PhD candidate at St. Andrews and an Ex-DIA Analyst. We discussed the context of Finland's NATO membership, the state of UGVs, the Great power competition in Africa, and how generative AI models like ChatGPT could be applied to intelligence in practice.
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We spoke about
Context of Finland’s NATO membership (1:05) The state of UVGs (9:58) The limited footage available of UGVs deployment (14:29) Potential Wagner attack on Chinese miners in CAR (17:35) The West’s waning influence over Africa (23:09) Iranian Drones in the Middle East (35:07) The application of ChatGPT in intelligence (40:10) Grey Dynamics analysis (50:36) Cultural recommendations (53:50) Closing words (1:02:49)
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