Technology journalist
Getty picturesAn artificial intelligence tool (AI) has been used to classify comments about Botox and lip fillings, which were submitted as part of a public consultation, what officials said was the first use of this kind in the United Kingdom.
Officials set the tool to work responses to a Scottish Counseling Government on the regulation of non -surgical cosmetic procedures.
They found that it came with “almost identical” results, compared to people, they put the same work.
We hope that the tool, called “Consult”, will deposit civil servants from similar time -consuming duties in the future and save taxpayers of about £ 20m.
Consult is one of a planned set of governmental tools operating with AI collectively called “Humphrey” after the senior civil servant, Sir Humphrey Appleby, from the classic Sitcom of 1980 yes, Minister. The series often aimed at excessive bureaucracy in the government.
In this test the AI tool examined 2,000 submissions. However, public consultations, which gather the views of UK citizens on issues examined by ministers, can create tens of thousands of answers.
He was able to identify issues between the answers and to measure and list the answers accordingly – with human experts to control his work in both stages.
The findings of counseling were then examined to see how they were compared to a group of human experts working in parallel.
Technology Minister Peter Kyle said the initial success of the trial meant that the consultation would be used throughout the government “very soon”.
“After we prove such a promising results, Humphrey will help us reduce the cost of administration and facilitate the collection and completion of experts and our public tells us on a number of critical issues,” he wrote.
The government hopes that £ 45 billion can be saved by the broader use of AI technology.
‘People in the loop’
The government says that the consultation is currently in its test phase and more evaluation will be carried out before any final decision to develop it more widely.
There would always be “people in the loop” to control the work of the Council, the government added.
Officials also tried to face some of the persistent concerns about AI systems.
One is that they sometimes invent information – a failed known as “hallucinogenic”.
Because AI was only called upon to perform a relatively limited task, officials said that illusion would not be a major problem.
Such AI tools, manufactured using what is known as “large language models” have also appeared bias, as they admire prejudices inherent in the data produced by the human being trained.
However, the experts who worked with the consultation had found that the bias was reduced as a whole, the government said, removing opportunities for individual people to “promote their own preliminary ideas”.
Counseling has also been tested to check that it can handle the language containing spelling errors and other errors.
However, it currently operates only in English and the answers to other languages spoken in the United Kingdom, such as Wales, should be translated first into English.
