🥟 Chao-Down #328 Microsoft creates an air-gapped version of GPT4 for intelligence agencies, OpenAI to launch tool to detect images created by DALL-E 3, Apple shows off latest M4 chip designed for AI

How is AI being used by the US intelligence agencies and spies?

We just got a glimpse of that from a Bloomberg report highlight how Microsoft has been building an air-gapped version of GPT4 for organizations in charge of the nation’s security and defense.

According to the report, the unnamed AI service is meant for intelligence agencies to use the reasoning and processing powers of large language models to handle classified data while mitigating risks of data breaches or hacking attempts.

Unlike its popular cloud-based versions, this version of GPT has no access to the internet and is locally run in an Iowa-based supercomputer which prevent it from accidentally leaking data or being intercepted by bad foreign actors.

While details beyond that remain scarce, it’s a fascinating look at how the US government is embracing this latest wave in AI.

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

OpenAI to launch tool to detect images created by DALL-E 3 (Reuters)

Who’s making chips for AI? Chinese manufacturers lag behind US tech giants (Nature)

Sam Altman says AI’s killer app will be when it's a 'super-competent colleague' (qz.com)

Apple debuts AI-focused M4 chip in iPad Pro models (Fast Company)

AI Puts The Squeeze On The Shrinking Half-life Of Skills (Forbes)

The Breach of a Face Recognition Firm Reveals a Hidden Danger of Biometrics (WIRED)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

How AI apps make money (growthunhinged.com)

The AI Workforce is Here: The Rise of a New Labor Market (nfx.com)

Our Rewired World. AI’s Agency in the Era of Personalization, Convenience, and Privacy. (Medium)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

microsoft/MS-MARCO-Web-Search: A large-scale information-rich web dataset,

Vibe-Eval: A new open and hard evaluation suite for measuring progress of multimodal language models — Reka AI

databonsai/databonsai: clean & curate your data with LLMs. (Github)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (arxiv)

RAG and RAU: A Survey on Retrieval-Augmented Language Model in Natural Language Processing (arxiv)

Benchmarking Benchmark Leakage in Large Language Models (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Gen Z mostly doesn't care if influencers are actual humans, new study shows (Mashable)

When doctors can't take real breaks from work, the health care system suffers (NPR)

How Much Protein Should I Eat Everyday? Can I Eat Too Much? (Bloomberg)

Google is getting even worse for independent sites (The Verge)

The Longevity Vacation: Poolside Lounging With an IV Drip (WSJ)

They thought they were joining an accelerator — instead they lost their startups (TechCrunch)

One Last Bite 😋