UK government chatbot goes into beta — with only a few bizarre hallucinations
UK government chatbot goes into beta — with only a few bizarre hallucinations
The UK’s new Labour government has gone full-tilt into AI — whether it works or not. Today, the Gov.UK website launched the second beta of its searchbot for business users, which will let them find…
This second-stage trial claims to have ironed out issues from the first-stage trial where the bot “starts to get challenging, or abusive — or even seductive.” [Public Technology]
Officials showed the bot to reporters earlier today. It would occasionally answer English questions in Welsh. It wouldn’t answer “What is the corporation tax regime?” because it didn’t like the word “regime.”
could you imagine fucking up a government contract so bad the resulting technological output starts sexting or tone policing you instead of giving correct answers to tax questions? and then you just shove it in front of the press and expect praise?
Weird name for Keir.