Microsoft will provide the technology of ChatGPT, the chatbot developed by OpenAI, to various government agencies in the United States. It will do so through its cloud computing service. Azure Governmentwhich is currently used by agencies such as NASA, the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy, reported Bloomberg.
Customers of local, state and federal government offices will be able to use the language systems GPT-4 and GPT-3. “It will help government agencies improve efficiencies, improve productivity and unlock new insights from their data,” Bill Chappell, Microsoft’s director of Technology and Strategic Missions, posted in the Blog of the company.
Microsoft already offers OpenAI models to its commercial customers, with the Azure OpenAI service, which already had 4,500 subscribers in May. Among them, Ikea, Mercedes-Benz Group AG and Shell.
Unlike its standard commercial version, the option of Azure Government incorporates strict safety standards. In this way, it complies with the requirements for confidential data demanded by the United States government. “It’s a new architecture that allows government agencies to securely access large language models,” added Chappell, who previously worked for the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
The benefits of ChatGPT for agencies like NASA
Azure Government pairs directly with the Azure commercial network. It does not peer directly with the public Internet or the Microsoft corporate network. Government data also they will not be used to train OpenAI models.
ChatGPT’s technology will help agencies like NASA generate quick analysis of field reports or design automated responses to research questions. These artificial intelligence models will also simplify code generation, allowing the development of custom applications using natural language.
It will all work together to “focus teams on higher-level strategic tasks and decision-making,” Microsoft said. The technology firm is the largest investor in OpenAI and uses its technology to power the Bing chatbot, its search engine.
Microsoft has delivered other AI-powered solutions to NASA before. Last year, for example, implement a beta test of security technologies, in conjunction with Hewlett Packard Enterprise. It is a program that runs on the International Space Station (ISS), which automatically identifies any potential damage or risk to equipment of the astronauts.
The tool runs through a data learning algorithm, which was trained on a bank of images of gloves and other items of equipment. In this way, he is able to determine wear or tear and prevent any problems with the suits.