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Palantir + Microsoft partnership for U.S. Defense
Plus, OpenAI releases safety report on GPT-4o

Hello and welcome to the Automated, your AI tour guide.
AI is yet again making its way to the U.S. defense system in a big way, and this time, it’s thanks to a partnership with Palantir and Microsoft!
Here’s what we have for you today:
🇺🇸 Inside Palantir + Microsoft Partnership for U.S. Defense!
📑 OpenAI Releases Safety Report on GPT-4o!
👑 Flux is the new king of AI image generation, and here’s how to get access.
😄 8 ways to use Gemini in Google Sheets.
🤖 ChatGPT Prompt Of The Day: Compare and contrast two documents.
🇺🇸 Inside Palantir + Microsoft Partnership for U.S. Defense!

Palantir has teamed up with Microsoft to bring cutting-edge AI services to U.S. defense and intelligence agencies.
If you’re unfamiliar with Palantir, it's a data-analysis company that gobbles up massive amounts of personal data to help governments and businesses with surveillance.
Some even call it the “AI arms dealer of the 21st century”!
Why? Because of its track record of working with entities like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), various police departments, etc., and its heavy integration into the war effort in Ukraine.
Now, let's go back to the partnership, shall we:
The official announcement calls it a first-of-its-kind integrated suite of technology for critical national security operations.
It will see Microsoft’s best-in-class large language models (LLMs) via Azure OpenAI Service integrated into Palantir’s AI Platforms (AIP).
This means that Palantir will deploy its suite of products (Foundry, Gotham, Apollo, and AIP) in Microsoft Azure Government and in the Azure Government Secret (DoD Impact Level 6) and Top Secret clouds.
However, the exact details of what services Palantir and Microsoft will actually offer remain unclear.
Maybe it’ll be something like when Azure incorporated OpenAI’s Chat-GPT4 into a “top secret” version of its software; who knows?
Interested in the full scoop? Check out the full story here!
📑 OpenAI Releases Safety Report on GPT-4o!

You know how OpenAI is usually super secretive about what goes into training its models and how they ensure safety?
Well, they just made a surprise disclosure!
They released a research document called the GPT-4o System Card that spills all the details about the safety checks and risk assessments they conducted before launching their latest model, GPT-4o, back in May.
Here’s a quick breakdown:
Before unleashing GPT-4o to the world, OpenAI brought in some outside security experts, otherwise known as red teamers, to root out potential risks such as voice cloning, explicit content, and copyright issues.
The verdict was that GPT-4o was found to be of “medium” risk overall!
And that's mainly because of its ability to persuade people (though it’s not necessarily more convincing than human writers).
But why do this now? Well, the heat’s been on OpenAI for a while.
They’ve been seriously criticized over their safety practices, not just from the outside but even from their own team.
Remember when their safety executive walked out? Yeah, things have been intense.
But that's not all!
Just before this system card was released, Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Lori Trahan even fired off a letter demanding answers on how OpenAI handles safety and whistleblower issues.
And let’s not forget, with the US presidential election around the corner and the fact that it'll most definitely clash with the company’s release date of their new highly capable multimodal model; there's been genuine worry about the model spreading misinformation or getting hijacked by bad actors.
So, just maybe, OpenAI's move to release this report might be an attempt to show transparency, but hey, who can say for sure?🤷♀️
Another thing of concern is that OpenAI largely relied on its own benchmarks to assess the risks.
And honestly, can we really trust that?
It would have been a whole different story if the safety evaluations weren’t so dependent on OpenAI itself, but that's not the case.
And because of all this, California (where OpenAI and many other tech labs are based), is considering a bill that would mandate companies to conduct thorough safety checks before releasing AI models to the public.
Could we be heading toward a world where everything is out in the open and transparent? We sure hope so!🤞
Check out the full report here!
🧱Around The AI Block
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🤖ChatGPT Prompt Of The Day: Validate Data Format.
Validating your data format is crucial because it ensures accuracy, compatibility, security, quality, and compliance.
It ensures that your data is correct, consistent, and meets regulatory requirements.
Here's a prompt that can help you with that.
As a Data Analysis Expert, your task is to validate a dataset to ensure it meets a specified [list of conditions]. This involves meticulously checking each data entry against the conditions, such as data type, range values, missing values, and format consistency. You will use statistical and computational methods to identify any discrepancies, outliers, or anomalies in the dataset. Your goal is to ensure the data is clean, accurate, and ready for further analysis or processing. This task requires a keen eye for detail, a solid understanding of data integrity principles, and proficiency in data analysis tools and software. Your findings and any corrections made should be documented in a comprehensive report, outlining the validation process, issues identified, and the steps taken to resolve them, ensuring the dataset's reliability and effectiveness for its intended use.
We've Compiled a List of Over 100 ChatGPT Power Prompts.
This should help streamline your interactions with ChatGPT and get the results you need more efficiently.
Best of all, It's free!

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