🕵🏼‍♀️ Microsoft launches covert chatbot for US intel agencies, yearly expansion of a Siberian sinkhole, Google tests 3-fingered robot hand

Microsoft has created a chatbot for spies similar to ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot. Interestingly, the company recently introduced a new generative artificial intelligence model that operates without the internet.

This development will allow United States intelligence agencies to securely use AI models to analyze top-secret data, develop codes, and more. A top official told Bloomberg that this is the first time a large language model (LLM) has been developed that is completely unplugged from the internet.

However, this limited the spy agencies’ use of these models to deduce and understand classified information. For an in-depth look at the details, read today’s Must-Read.

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🕵🏼‍♀️ AI spy: Microsoft launches covert chatbot for US intel agencies

Microsoft’s GPT4-based model runs in an “air-gapped” environment, which means it is isolated from the internet to avoid data breaches or hacking attempts.

This guarantees that the model is safe and unavailable to unauthorized users.

Moreover, this GPT4 model is static, meaning it can read files without learning from them or accessing the open internet. This keeps sensitive data from being absorbed into the platform.

⛰️ Gateway to Hell: Siberian sinkhole expands 35 million cubic feet yearly

A collaborative effort from researchers in Germany and Russia has found that the Batagaika Crater in Siberia, also known as the Gateway to Hell, is expanding at 35 million cubic feet yearly.

Back in the 1960s-1960s, the sinkhole was just a small gully, but it has since expanded more than half a mile in length and is half a mile broad at its widest point.

The Batagaika Crater is located in the Chersky Range in the administrative Sakha Republic of Russia. It is named after the Batagayka River, a tributary of the Yana River that flows nearby.

🦾 ‘Indestructible’ 3-fingered robot hand being tested by Google’s Deepmind

Google DeepMind is employing a new dexterous and durable three-fingered robotic hand to advance the development of AI in robotics, according to a report.

The robot hand in question, developed by UK-based Shadow Robot, is designed to provide comparable force output and movement precision to the human hand.

The company, known for its robot hands, claims that its existing Shadow Dexterous Hand series is the most advanced 5-fingered robotic hand in the world. It offers advanced accuracy, helping to manipulate tools and objects more precisely than ever.

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