Microsoft’s ‘air gapped’ AI is a bot set up to process top-secret info

Microsoft Strategic Missions and Technology CTO William Chappell announced that it’s deployed a GPT-4 ample connection exemplary successful an isolated, air-gapped situation connected a government-only network. Bloomberg first reported nan setup, citing an unnamed executive who claimed that nan Azure Government Top Secret cloud-hosted exemplary represents nan first clip a “major” LLM has operated separated from nan internet.

Chappell announced nan AI supercomputer connected Tuesday day at nan “first-ever AI Expo for National Competitiveness” successful Washington D.C. Unlike nan models down ChatGPT aliases different tools, Microsoft says this server is “static,” operating without learning from nan files it processes aliases nan wider internet.

Chappell told Bloomberg, “It is now deployed, it’s live, it’s answering questions, it will constitute codification arsenic an illustration of nan type of point it’ll do.” As Chappell mentioned to DefenseScoop, it has not been accredited for top-secret use, truthful nan Pentagon and different authorities departments aren’t really utilizing it yet, whether that’s processing information for a peculiar ngo aliases thing for illustration HR.