Microsoft wants your company to feed its private data into ChatGPT
It’s to save you tuning your own AI, Microsoft claims
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Microsofthas revealed a new launch giving firms the ability to hand over their corporate data to its AzureOpenAIService in order to get better results when querying the AIchatbot.
OpenAI is the company behind the ever-popularChatGPT, and Microsoft has been one of its biggest investors, pouring billions of dollars into its development; ChatGPT is hosted on Azure. Since then, the Redmond giant has been integrating the AI models behind it - the latest being GPT-4 - intomany of its products and services.
Although there have beennumerous privacy and regulatory concernsabout ChatGPT since its release - due to the amount of data it gathered from countless sources in its initial training and continues to collect from users - Microsoft seems to have gone the other way, with Andy Beatman, senior product marketing manager for Azure AI, saying that the new data hand-over feature is a “highly requested customer capability.”
More data, better results
According toThe Register, the new system, available initially in public preview, works by Azure fetching the relevant data internal to the firm in order to best complete a worker’s request.
Microsoft alsofurther explainedthat, “Azure OpenAI on your data, together with Azure Cognitive Search, determines what data to retrieve from the designated data source based on the user input and provided conversation history.”
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“This data is then augmented and resubmitted as a prompt to the OpenAI model, with retrieved information being appended to the original prompt,” it added.
Beatman also noted that the new functionality means that there is no need for companies to train or fine-tune their own AI models. The reason they would want to do this is to get more relevant answers to their work, rather than the generic responses the out-of-the-box ChatGPT might give you.
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So Microsoft’s argument appears to be that in handing over your company’s data, you’ll be able to get those tailored answers without needing to customize an AI model yourself.
Microsoft is following in the footsteps ofNvidia, which launched NeMo to help organizations tailor their Large Language Models by feeding in their own data. It also partnered with ServiceNow, so firms could train AI models on the cloud platform with their own data.
The new Azure OpenAI Service features are claimed to make a variety of tasks easier, such as software development, indexing and HR procedures. Corporate data can be accessed from any location, on or off prem, and can extract insights from data. The service can also be integrated thanks to APIs and an SDK from Microsoft.
“Once your data source is connected, you can start asking questions and conversing with the OpenAI models through Azure AI Studio,” Beatman said. “This enables you to gain valuable insights and make informed business decisions.”
ChatGPT within the Azure OpenAI Service keeps all data that is fed into it by default, including queries and data, so those concerned with keeping their firm’s data private may be hesitant.
Lewis Maddison is a Reviews Writer for TechRadar. He previously worked as a Staff Writer for our business section, TechRadar Pro, where he had experience with productivity-enhancing hardware, ranging from keyboards to standing desks. His area of expertise lies in computer peripherals and audio hardware, having spent over a decade exploring the murky depths of both PC building and music production. He also revels in picking up on the finest details and niggles that ultimately make a big difference to the user experience.
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