- GSA cooperates with Openai to give Federal Agencies Chatgpt
- These cost each agency only $ 1 for the year
- AI models present serious environmental, security and ‘hallucination’ concerns
Openai has announced that it has collaborated with the US General Services Administration (GSA) to offer Chatgpt Enterprise for the entire federal executive branch workforce for ‘essentially no cost’, which means only $ 1 per year. Agency for the next 12 months.
“To help the government work better – to make services faster, easier and more reliable – is an important way to bring the benefits of AI to everyone,” the company said.
“At Openai, we believe that public employees should help shape how AI is used. The best way to do it is to put Best-in-Class AI tools in their hands-with strong railings, high transparency and deep respect for their public mission.”
Openai was also awarded a US defense contract of $ 200 million to provide AI data collection, admin and ‘proactive cyber defense’ tools. This contract aims to bring AI at the forefront of the defense and wants to ‘improve both the daily experience of public service and to help government employees feel more empowered, more efficient and more supported in their critical missions.’
Given the vital and sensitive work of federal agencies, it should be noted that recent studies from Openai itself have identified that new Chatgpt models are hallucing more than previous models, with GPT 03 hallucinated 33% of the time during the company’s Personaqa -Benchmark, a test that involves questions about public figures.
Nudiary rose to 51% in Simpleqa -Benchmark -a general knowledge -based test, and 04 mini (a smaller new model) priested even worse with a 79% hallucination speed.
Openai has assured that research is ongoing about AI hallucinations and that there is a consistent effort to tackle the reliability of the models. Hallucinations are traced by the company and guides are available to developers to improve the model’s accuracy.
Artificial intelligence permeates through all different industries with a wide scale adoption across both professional and personal environments.
Like Chatgpt’s Openai, AI companies have a significant influence in the US administration and exploit this influence to presumably create an addiction or at least a level of dependency within state agencies.
