CIA Builds Its Own AI Chatbot in Rivalry With China (bloomberg.com) 16
US intelligence agencies are getting their own ChatGPT-style tool to sift through an avalanche of public information for clues. From a report: The Central Intelligence Agency is preparing to roll out a feature akin to OpenAI's now-famous program that will use artificial intelligence to give analysts better access to open-source intelligence, according to agency officials. The CIA's Open-Source Enterprise division plans to provide intelligence agencies with its AI tool soon. "We've gone from newspapers and radio, to newspapers and television, to newspapers and cable television, to basic internet, to big data, and it just keeps going," Randy Nixon, director of the division, said in an interview. "We have to find the needles in the needle field."
It's part of a broader government campaign to harness the power of AI and compete with China, which is seeking to become the global leader in the field by 2030. That US push dovetails with the intelligence community's struggle to process the vast amounts of data that's now publicly available, amid criticism that it's been slow to exploit that source. The CIA's AI tool will allow users to see the original source of the information that they're viewing, Nixon said. He said that a chat feature is a logical part of getting intelligence distributed quicker.
It's part of a broader government campaign to harness the power of AI and compete with China, which is seeking to become the global leader in the field by 2030. That US push dovetails with the intelligence community's struggle to process the vast amounts of data that's now publicly available, amid criticism that it's been slow to exploit that source. The CIA's AI tool will allow users to see the original source of the information that they're viewing, Nixon said. He said that a chat feature is a logical part of getting intelligence distributed quicker.
Dying to know CIAAI-O (Score:2)
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consider.
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chat mata hari
The most competent US agency (Score:2)
wrong tool (Score:3)
LLM "chatbots" are not search tools. Generative models like GPT are not search tools. They might have success using embedding models like text-embedding-ada-002, or all-mpnet-base-v2, or even plain old BERT.
Re: wrong tool (Score:2)
LLM "chatbots" are not search tools. Generative models like GPT are not search tools.
I know, right? It's almost as if the CIA are up to no good. Like, they're automating propaganda...
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Well at least you've found the shit in the CIAs bullshit excuse.
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Both are pretty good at it. But a full dictator doesn't have to worry about hiding their plan from fellow citizens.
They do know... (Score:2)
ChatGPT lies like a rug right? Or since it doesn't have any motives, it renders behavior which is otherwise only seen by humans attempting to deceive or bullshitting.
or is it fox guarding hen house? (Score:1)
"I'm worried about this fire over here, we should pour gasoline on it to put it out."
Help! I've been catfished by the CIA... (Score:2)
CIA is a real life Section 31 (Score:2)
How is China not a leader? (Score:3)
They released 8 general purpose and specialized models for AI which are extremely competitive.
Huawei cloud costs less than half their nearest competitor for training or inference.
They openly admit to selling far more capable tech for China only.
China isn't trying to become a leader, they're already there.