ChatGPT Can Make Short Work of Pentagon Tasks, Air Force CIO Says
Lauren Knausenberger, chief information officer at the Department of the Air Force, listens to a question Feb. 28, 2023, at an event hosted by Billington Cybersecurity. (Colin Demarest/C4ISRNET)
FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Generative artificial intelligence like the wildly popular ChatGPT has a promising future at the U.S. Department of Defense, where time-consuming tasks and red tape can clog the path to accomplishment, according to Lauren Knausenberger, the Air Force’s chief information officer.
A smart assistant or AI-powered chatbot could efficiently find files, answer frequently asked questions or dig up contact information, among other menial assignments, Knausenberger said Feb. 28 at an event in Virginia hosted by Billington Cybersecurity. Automating such processes could save precious time and resources.
“And… no … no … No! I have no new money in my bank account from ChatGPT.”
(A) Will the information budget be decreased in any way corresponding to the time supposedly saved?
(B) Or will the budget be magically increased, due to unforeseen consequences?
(C) Is there not a “frequently asked questions” on the website? If not, would it be cheap to add it?
(D) Is there no contact information on the website? If not . . . ?
(E) What was the cost of this event hosted in Virginia by Billington Cybersecrutiy? Who bore the cost?
(F) Was there ANY other angle available to photograph this chief information officer from?
China knows more about what’s going on than she does..sad.
Nice touch with Periere water though,
classy.
As someone who has worked with these types of things:
No the budget will not go down due to time saved. If any actual time gets saved.
Yes the budget always increasing due to unforeseen and often foreseen consequences.
C/D: Yes. But the websites are down, the information is outdated anyways, it’s probably behind a firewall, and there are four to five different websites, created by four to five different entities at various times during the internet age, as dictated by the boss at the time, and probably poorly done at that. And that’s even if you can remember which acronym that very specific group is under, and how many times have they been reorganized.
Alot, and you.
The photog is a recent diversity hire who would not have made it past basic background checks under a functioning regime. But hey, at least the photo is above the waist this time.
Back in the old days there would always be some dude laying under the table looking up her skirt, the Bluto’s of the world..but those days are long gone mostly.
Where is RoboCop…dust him off and recharge him because we are going to need someone to go in and shutdown the mainframe before missiles are launched…
Save time? Great! Now they can spend more time drilling…
proper pronouns into the recruits brains.