What Is Congress’s Favorite AI Tool?
ChatGPT is the clear winner in the AI spending race inside the U.S. The findings do not provide a complete picture of AI use in Congress, but they offer a peek at which tools lawmakers and their staff are paying for. CNBC identified $113,740 in total spending on named AI vendors during a 12-month-period.
- ▪ChatGPT is the clear winner in the AI spending race inside the U.S.
- ▪The findings do not provide a complete picture of AI use in Congress, but they offer a peek at which tools lawmakers and their staff are paying for.
- ▪CNBC identified $113,740 in total spending on named AI vendors during a 12-month-period.
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- ▪ What Is Congress’s Favorite AI Tool? - Gizmodo — Google News
- ▪ Congress’s favorite AI tool? ChatGPT — TechCrunch
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ChatGPT is the clear winner in the AI spending race inside the U.S. House of Representatives. OpenAI’s chatbot accounted for nearly $9 out of every $10 that House offices, committees, and institutional accounts spent on identifiable AI tools during the 12 months ending March 31, according to a new CNBC analysis.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"92b7b46b-43ed-4e0e-b21b-2c999302d9d7","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.gizmodo.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"2000794111","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"tech","SECTION":"artificial-intelligence","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"artificial-intelligence","TAGS":"ai,chatgpt,congress,openai","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); The business news outlet examined House…
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