The Chinese government has modified Goal Flame to turn AI into a military tool

Artificial intelligence has reached all areas, even the military field. Researchers in China linked to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have adapted the Goal Flame artificial intelligence model to help in the event of war.

This open source model has been modified to incorporate specific parameters such as collect information from citizens, assist in decision-making or hold military conversationshas reported Reuters. The tool has been called ChatBIT and is inspired by assistants such as ChatGPT or Gemini.

The Chinese government has started testing ChatBIT and the first results are positive. The chatbot was capable of answering questions in a military context, something that has even more worried researchers who fear that AI could enter the national defense of countries.

Goal has shared its language model to develop tools with artificial intelligence without restrictions, the only requirement is the prohibition of military use. China has taken advantage of the weaknesses of open source formats and the difficulty of putting restrictions into practice to design a chatbot in record time.

China has trained ChatBIT with 100,000 military conversations, although it is not enough to blindly trust this AI at the moment. The Chinese military could continue to use Llama and other large-scale models to improve the reliability of this system.

Meta does not want to link with ChatBIT

The company of Mark Zuckerberg He has assured that he does not want to be linked to ChatBIT. Meta has clarified that They have not worked with the Chinese military and warn that the use of the chatbot is “incompatible with their policies”.

China is one of the countries that is investing the most in developing AI by adapting open source models or designing tools from scratch. The Asian country has already used the artificial intelligence for military purposes on other occasions with robot dogs that can aim autonomously.

The country’s advances in artificial intelligence have forced the United States to accelerate an order to regulate its use in the style of the European Union. The Biden administration proposes to control the investment in AI that China makes in its tools and protect critical sectors such as national security.

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Tags: open source, artificial intelligence, security