WASHINGTON – ChatGPT, a bot launched by OpenAI in November that creates conversations with human-like content, combining surreal art and computer code, has attracted the attention of US security officials.
And the technology behind bot viruses, artificial intelligence, was recently added to the Defense Information Systems Agency’s watch list, according to Chief Technology Officer Stephen Wallace.
“We’ve heard a lot about AI over the years, and there are a number of places that are already playing it,” Jan said. 25 at an event hosted by AFCEA, a communications-and-electronics interest group. at the Army-Navy Country Club in Arlington, Virginia. “But this kind of art, creative art, is a very interesting art.”
The watch list, which is constantly refreshed, has previously shown technologies that later became the pillars of security and safety, such as 5G, zero digital security, anti-quantity cryptography, edge computing and telepresence.
“We’re starting to look at: How is it going? [generative AI] changing DISA’s work in the department and what we provide to the department moving forward,” said Wallace.
ChatGPT, praised by some for its ability to increase employee productivity and scorned by others for biased and ethical issues, surpassed 1 million registered users within a week of its launch. The readily available platform has revealed “overpopulation” of AI’s power and pitfalls, according to Bill Drexel, a technology and national security fellow at the Center for a New American Security.
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“Although it’s obviously not the military, obviously, I think that the increasing number of these types of businesses, which are often run by companies, is creating awareness of what will work and what will fail with these weapons,” he said. he told Defense News at an event held on January 26.
Exactly how artificial AI will be used in the Pentagon is unclear, and Wallace did not elaborate. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI and developer of ChatGPT, met this week with lawmakers in an attempt to derail the tool, Semafor said.
The US military is spending heavily on AI and related technologies as a way to improve battlefield analysis and predict maintenance requirements, among other tasks.
Public Pentagon spending on AI, including autonomy, reached $2.5 billion in 2021 from $600 million in 2016. More than 685 AI projects, including several tied to major weapons systems, were ongoing as of early 2021, according to the Government Accountability Office. .
And in November, Air Force Chief Information Officer Lauren Knausenberger said the service had to “change a lot” to remain dominant in a technological world of fast and agile decision-making.
Colin Demarest is a reporter at C4ISRNET, where he covers the military, cyber and IT sectors. Colin previously wrote for the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration – the Cold War cleanup and maintenance of nuclear weapons – for a daily newspaper in South Carolina. Colin is also an award-winning artist.
