The Pentagon has its eye on the leading AI company, which this week softened its ban on military use.
  • luciole (he/him)@beehaw.org
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    10 months ago

    Suchman and Myers West both pointed to OpenAI’s close partnership with Microsoft, a major defense contractor, which has invested $13 billion in the LLM maker to date and resells the company’s software tools.

    That explains it. Microsoft wants to cash in on their massive investment in OpenAI by embedding ChatGPT into every bit of software they can. Defense being an important sector for them, I’m surprised the military ban was ever in OpenAI’s usage policy.

    • java@beehaw.org
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      10 months ago

      That explains it. Microsoft wants to cash in on their massive investment in OpenAI by embedding ChatGPT into every bit of software they can.

      Given how slow and laggy ChatGPT4 is, they’re running ahead of the train. Ultimately, this will lead existing customers to competitors.