Subj : Microsoft has added ChatGPT into the secure US government Azure c
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Mon Jun 12 2023 16:15:03

Microsoft has added ChatGPT into the secure US government Azure cloud

Date:
Mon, 12 Jun 2023 15:03:23 +0000

Description:
The US government is getting GPT-3, GPT-4, and Embeddings in its own, 
enclosed version of Azure OpenAI Service.

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Microsoft has announced its Azure OpenAI Service is now available to the US 
government in an even more secure format, with specific compliance promised 
for regulatory standards for classification and security. 

With Azure OpenAI Service for government, customers (which currently include 
United States federal, state, and local government and their partners) can 
get access to OpenAIs GPT large models - those behind the popular ChatGPT AI 
writer . 

Microsoft hopes that moving those models from the commercial cloud to a new 
and secure architecture will enable the government to benefit from the 
time-saving tech thats stolen many of the headlines in recent months. Azure 
OpenAI Service for government is now live 

The services REST APIs give the government access to language and multimodal 
models including GPT-3, GPT-4, as well as Embeddings. 

The company expects government agencies to leverage these existing models to 
develop their own AI-enabled applications to help improve efficiency across 
their operations. Read more 

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With Azure OpenAI Service for government comes the usual list of benefits and 
use cases that can be expected, including content generation, summarization, 
semantic search optimization, and code generation and rectification. 

In a bid to convince government bodies that its services are secure, 
Microsoft sheds some light on the 250,000 km of fiber optic and undersea 
cables that make up its global network backbone. Government data promises 
never to leave this and enter the public Internet. 

In the announcement , Microsoft CTO Strategic Missions and Technologies, Bill 
Chappell, explained: Only the queries submitted to the Azure OpenAI Service 
transit into the Azure OpenAI model in the commercial environment through an 
encrypted network and do not remain in the commercial environment. 

Furthermore, Chappell confirmed that government data is not used for training 
OpenAIs models in the same way that regular consumer information is used. 

How the US government plans to use generative AI to its benefit remains to be 
seen, but its approach is likely to be cautious at first as it gets to grips 
with integrating artificial intelligence with the sensitive data it handles. 
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/news/microsoft-has-added-chatgpt-into-the-secure-us-
government-azure-cloud


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