Leading the Charge: ChatGPT Integration in Defense (Insights from Air Force CIO)
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Since its launch, ChatGPT has been integrated and used by a lot of big companies. Coca cola recently ink to deal specifically with open a eye to integrate IT. Uh consulting is doing essentially partnerships with opening eye to get integrated into bunching different, different corporations.

But one of the biggest i've heard so far is that the pentagon is currently very interested in using ChatGPT. So today on the podcast, we're gona talk about what they're saying and why this is important. So first of a lot of this comes from the fact that the air force C I O A recently said that chat B T can make short work of pentagon tasks.

So pretty much what's happening right now is, uh, essentially the department of defense were a lot of consuming tasks. And red tape can just clog up the pathway to getting anything done. We know how government is. Its horrible in that of regard.

Um according to lin canon burger, the air forces chief information officer, he believes that ChatGPT can help so a smart assistant or AI power chatbot could effectively find files, answer questions um ask questions or digg up contact information among other millions of medial assignments um and ask what he was going back in february twenty eight at an event in Virginia which was hosted by the billions cyber security. So i'm automating a lot of those different processes would save them a lot of time and resources. We've all seen how ChatGPT can save us, you know, time on artistic careers, a lot of businesses and industries.

And now IT looks like the government is getting into IT. So SHE said that there is no reason why ChatGPT can't respond to tasers and take away some of the very um heavy knowledge management work of finding so it's like, you know, IT SHE said, okay, who are the three action officers across the department that have these different pieces and you know that you can kind of like charge, but you could pull IT together and he says there's a lot of power there that they can harness in the in your future. So IT looks like they're actually, you know actively looking at how they would implement this as you know, ChatGPT capability of Carrying a very convincing conversation and pumping out you know content like computer code or children stories know really exploding right now.

And apparently IT actually recently pretty quickly caught the attention of the pentagon, um generated the eye, which is, you know what fuels tragic. Ity was recently added to a defense information systems agency tech watch list, which previously had things like five g zero tra sever security, edge computing, lot of other so they're like very actively looking at the space. Um the D I S.

A chief technology officer, Stephen wallace, like just in late january, described IT as a very is he said, a pretty interesting capability and said that we're starting to look at how does generate A I actually change D I S says mission to in the department and what we provide for the department going forward. So is very actively being looked at. Um I think military worldwide are kind of investing in A I and adjacent tech to improve battle field analysis, pricing, maintenance needs and just can like extremely logistics.

Um so can burger, who is leaving her C I O post um in june, has said that the U S. Needs to automate more to maintain its advantages, right? Like if we know the red tape and government is killing us, and so, uh, if we have all of this red tape and were able to automate a lot of the more mundane tasks ah, I don't see any reason why we ouldn't be able to integrate AI to get that done, make um our government more efficient, especially our defense, uh, which you know is A A very important part of our economy.

So it's interesting. No, because he is on her way out in june. And so she's kind of talking about the importance now, but she's on her way out and her successor hasn't yet been named. So don't really know the the next person coming in is gonna be um as plugged in or interested in this.

But H I was interested in to know that public spending on A I including automation at the defense department jumped to two point five billion in twenty twenty one, which is um from a little bit more than he was about six hundred million back in twenty teen. More than six hundred and eighty five AI projects, including several tit a major weapon systems, were under way as of early twenty twenty one. I'm sure that exploded in twenty two and with ChatGPT this year that this is going to only get bigger. So to be interested in in watching the space, seen where that goes, looking at the ethical um implications of a lot of that and seen how this evolves.