The FBI, National Security Agency (NSA), and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) accused Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) companies on Tuesday of conducting “aggressive” and “malicious” campaigns to steal American technology with the full blessing of the Chinese government.
\n\nThe report said Chinese companies are “targeting U.S. AI companies to systematically extract proprietary models through knowledge distillation campaigns.”
\n\nDistillation is the process of using a more complete and powerful AI system to “train” a weaker one. The “teacher” in this system is a cutting-edge AI known as a frontier model, which was created with huge investments of time, money, and computer power.
\n\nThe “student” is a much smaller and more limited AI that does not attempt to emulate the full capabilities of the frontier model. Instead, it “learns” from the larger AI to replicate specific aspects of its knowledge and behavior. Interacting with the frontier model can give the “student” model a chance to deduce, and duplicate, the teacher’s painstakingly designed and tested algorithms.
\n\nDistillation has often been used as a legitimate development technique for new AI designs, but it can also be abused as a form of industrial espionage, akin to spying on a master chef to copy a…
Original source: https://www.breitbart.com/tech/
