The UK government signed a partnership with OpenAI months ago.
No testing of the technology has occurred since the deal was announced.
The government is reportedly lagging behind other public sector AI initiatives.
There is currently no specific timeline for when the technology will be trialed.
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<p>FoI request reveals no evidence of testing despite ministers hailing agreement as key to delivering AI-led public service reform</p><p>When the UK government signed a memorandum of understanding with OpenAI, the tech firm behind ChatGPT, the partnership was hailed as one that could harness artificial intelligence to “address society’s greatest challenges”.</p><p>But eight months on from the fanfare of that announcement, the government has yet to hold any trials i
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**OpenAI** is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization headquartered in San Francisco, California. The organization operates under a unique hybrid structure, comprising the non-profit **OpenAI, Inc.** and its controlled for-profit subsidiary, **OpenAI Global, LLC** (a...
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UK government yet to trial OpenAI tech months after signing partnership FoI request reveals no evidence of testing despite ministers hailing agreement as key to delivering AI-led public service reform When the UK government signed a memorandum of understanding with OpenAI, the tech firm behind ChatGPT , the partnership was hailed as one that could harness artificial intelligence to “address society’s greatest challenges”. But eight months on from the fanfare of that announcement, the government has yet to hold any trials involving the firm’s tech. A freedom of information request asked the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology for information about trials conducted under the memorandum, which said the company would work with civil servants to “identify opportunities for how advanced AI models can be deployed throughout government and the private sector”. The department replied that it held none of this information and had “not undertaken any trials under the memorandum of understanding with OpenAI”. In response to a query from the Guardian, DSIT pointed to an agreement under which the Ministry of Justice last October enabled civil servants to use ChatGPT “with an option for UK-based data storage for customers”. Tarek Nseir, the CEO of Valliance, the AI consultancy that filed the FoI, said: “Either there’s been a huge failure in execution, or it was a failure of intent in my view. “There are unquestionably pockets of government that are engaging with these frontier models and these providers … We just have so little to show for it. “Rolling out ChatGPT in a department hardly reflects the ambition of the MoU.” He added: “We use PowerPoint – that doesn’t mean we have a strategic relationship with Microsoft. If this was the intent of the MoU then our government is not taking the impact of AI on our economy seriously.” The agreement for the MoJ to use ChatGPT appeared to be part of a larger “ AI Action Plan for Justice ” rolled out separately last July. DSIT ...
