<story><title>Microsoft is bringing GPT-4 to US Government agencies</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-07/microsoft-offers-powerful-openai-technology-to-us-government-cloud-customers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TrackerFF</author><text>I work for a gov. agency, and we&amp;#x27;re in the midst of a project (with your typical MBB consulting firms) to map the use of generative AI&amp;#x2F;ML tools, and what possible benefits there are.&lt;p&gt;One immediate internal benefit would be the information retrieval bit - you kind of get rid of the &amp;quot;data&amp;quot; barrier, which involves knowledge in databases&amp;#x2F;SQL etc.&lt;p&gt;Gov. agencies typically have lots of bureaucrats with deep domain knowledge in laws, regulations, and whatever the field they&amp;#x27;re working on - but limited data knowledge. And instead of relying on analysts etc. to retrieve the needed information, these LLMs could bypass that step.&lt;p&gt;Of course, it&amp;#x27;s not entirely that straight forward - as you&amp;#x27;d need to validate the things the LLM serves you, but that&amp;#x27;s one of the ideas. Leadership have been discussing AI&amp;#x2F;ML non-stop for the past 6-7 months, and it seems like these kinds of FOMO projects are popping up everywhere...good times for the consulting firms.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>taeric</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not clear on the immediate benefit there.  You are asserting it is easier to get answers out, as opposed to having to learn a query language?&lt;p&gt;If so, I think that makes sense.  With the &amp;#x2F;major&amp;#x2F; caveat that you are also making it even easier to get incorrect data out.  No?</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft is bringing GPT-4 to US Government agencies</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-07/microsoft-offers-powerful-openai-technology-to-us-government-cloud-customers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>TrackerFF</author><text>I work for a gov. agency, and we&amp;#x27;re in the midst of a project (with your typical MBB consulting firms) to map the use of generative AI&amp;#x2F;ML tools, and what possible benefits there are.&lt;p&gt;One immediate internal benefit would be the information retrieval bit - you kind of get rid of the &amp;quot;data&amp;quot; barrier, which involves knowledge in databases&amp;#x2F;SQL etc.&lt;p&gt;Gov. agencies typically have lots of bureaucrats with deep domain knowledge in laws, regulations, and whatever the field they&amp;#x27;re working on - but limited data knowledge. And instead of relying on analysts etc. to retrieve the needed information, these LLMs could bypass that step.&lt;p&gt;Of course, it&amp;#x27;s not entirely that straight forward - as you&amp;#x27;d need to validate the things the LLM serves you, but that&amp;#x27;s one of the ideas. Leadership have been discussing AI&amp;#x2F;ML non-stop for the past 6-7 months, and it seems like these kinds of FOMO projects are popping up everywhere...good times for the consulting firms.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mchaver</author><text>It might be ok if that data gets validated by experts in the same field, but there have been plenty of stories about lawyers and professors who failed to even review the output they use. Color me skeptical.</text></comment>