AI Reports For Military Duty 🪖

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Welcome to another edition of AI Authority, delivering all of the top groundbreaking AI news shaping our world into a bite-sized newsletter every weekday morning.

As always, we’ve got one daily AI headline, two exciting tools, and three pieces of content we love from the community for you today.

In this edition:

✍️ News: AI Enlists in the Military
🛠️ Tools: ChatGPT Code Interpreter, HeyPi Voice
🎨 Creator Corner: AI-generated Shorts, Superheroes Reimagined from the Golden Age of Hollywood, an Instagram ChatGPT Fail

Here’s everything you need to know:

One top headline in the AI space to know:

 🪖 U.S. Air Force Bringing AI to the Battlefield

AI is officially reporting for duty in the U.S. military ranks.

The US Air Force has reportedly begun testing the power of Large-language Models to expedite its operational processes — and is already yielding faster results than traditional methods.

The use of LLMs like ChatGPT and Bard, trained on extensive internet data to predict human-like responses, signals a significant digital transformation within the military — which has previously relied heavily on human-led, time-consuming processes.

In one instance, an AI tool was able to fulfill an information request in just ten minutes — a task that could typically take several staffers hours or days.

Despite the impressive results, the deployment of LLMs in a military context also raises concerns about possible AI-induced biases, misinformation, and potential hacks.

As a result, the Pentagon is partnering with tech security companies to evaluate the trustworthiness of AI systems, underlining the importance of understanding the sources of the data feeding the models.

In a demonstration using 60,000 pages of open-source data, Bloomberg News asked Scale AI's Donovan if the US was capable of stopping a Taiwan conflict and who would win in the event of war.

The system provided quick answers:

• Direct US intervention with ground, air, and naval forces would likely be necessary.

• The US would struggle to quickly paralyze China's military.

• There is no consensus on the outcome of a potential conflict between the US and China over Taiwan.

Is this the beginning of a new era of AI-based military advancements? Or the beginning of the end, as artificial intelligence gains too much control over deadly weapons and world-altering decisions?

It’s an inevitable (but frightening) future of warfare.

Two AI-powered platforms to add to your toolbox:

• ChatGPT Code Interpreter — Allows ChatGPT to run code, now rolling out to all users! (link)

• Pi — A personal AI with a focus on active listening and conversation (link)

Inflection AI’s personal chatbot PI got an upgrade this week, with the capability to speak with users via a call. Is this the future of Siri/Alexa?

Three of our favorite tweets, threads, AI generations and more:

An entire AI-generated short, using a combination of different tools. Super impressive stuff from @ammaar:

Your favorite superheroes reimagined and recast in the early days of cinema. Awesome movie posters from Reddit u/marehori:

This account has nearly 4M followers, but clearly forgot one critical omission in the caption — you had one job! 🤣

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