Original title: The US Military Is Taking Generative AI Out for a Spin
Summary: The US military is testing five LLMs as part of an eight-week exercise run by the Pentagon’s digital and AI office. "It was highly successful. It was very fast," a US Air Force colonel is quoted as saying. "We did it with secret-level data," he adds, saying that it could be deployed by the military in the very near term.
Honestly, I was freaked out when I read that "secret-level data" in the article, but it's probably a choice between (a) giving an officially approved LLM for people to use, that's set up in a way where it's safe to feed secret-level data into it, or (b) having people fire up ChatGPT and put the secret-level data into it. There have already been issues of employees pasting proprietary code into ChatGPT and doubtless that'll happen with military data try or not to prevent it.