US spies are reportedly developing their own AI chatbot in a move to top China's prowess.
The US Central Intelligence Agency's Open-Source Enterprise division will soon have a ChatGPT-like large language model (LLM) to provide government snoops with better access to intelligence, according to a Bloomberg report.
The CIA did not respond to The Register's inquiries about the program, including how it will build and train the model, or when it expects it to be ready for use.
Randy Nixon, the director of the CIA's Open-Source Enterprise division, stated that the LLM will allow users — US intelligence agencies including the CIA, FBI, National Security Agency, and military analysts — to see the original source of the information presented and will include a chat feature.
"Then you can take it to the next level and start chatting and asking questions of the machines to give you answers, also sourced," Nixon said. "Our collection can just continue to grow and grow with no limitations other than how much things cost."
Not surprisingly, the AI tooling will reportedly not be made available to policymakers or the public.
The program appears to be an attempt to get ahead of China, which wants to be the leader in AI globally by 2023, according to reports.
American law enforcement and cyber agencies have repeatedly sounded the alarm on allowing China to overtake the US in artificial intelligence. In addition to using AI to find threats, China is buildi ..
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