Insider Q&A: CIA's chief technologist's cautious embrace of generative AI
Time:2024-05-21 08:06:52 Source:entertainmentViews(143)
Knowledge advantage can save lives, win wars and avert disaster. At the Central Intelligence Agency, basic artificial intelligence – machine learning and algorithms – has long served that mission. Now, generative AI is joining the effort.
CIA Director William Burns says AI tech will augment humans, not replace them. The agency’s first chief technology officer, Nand Mulchandani, is marshaling the tools. There’s considerable urgency: Adversaries are already spreading AI-generated deepfakes aimed at undermining U.S. interests.
A former Silicon Valley CEO who helmed successful startups, Mulchandani was named to the job in 2022 after a stint at the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center.
Among projects he oversees: A ChatGPT-like generative AI application that draws on open-source data (meaning unclassified, public or commercially available). Thousands of analysts across the 18-agency U.S. intelligence community use it. Other CIA projects that use large-language models are, unsurprisingly, secret.
Previous:The Latest
Next:‘The Blue Angels,’ filmed for IMAX, puts viewers in the ‘box’ with the elite flying squad
You may also like
- Ricky Stenhouse punching Kyle Busch could lead to suspension
- HKFP Lens: Hong Kong press group announces winners of annual news photo contest
- HKFP Lens: Hong Kong press group announces winners of annual news photo contest
- the remote Canadian Island known as MARS on earth! It is so otherworldly, NASA uses it for research
- Socialite Jasmine Hartin enjoys beach snuggle with electrician hunk
- Apple users are still discovering hidden new features inside iPhone's iOS17
- Astronaut Thomas Stafford, commander of Apollo 10, dies aged 93: Air Force three
- Elon Musk says AI has 'more positives than negatives' as he launches his own anti
- The government wants to buy their flood