Emma Taylor Vicki Woolgar In November 2024, 65 AI enthusiasts gathered for the Department for Business and Trade’s (DBT) first-ever AI conference in London. This marked a significant milestone in...
...policies and guidance information is now easier to find, and the number of HR team enquiries is reducing (22.4% less first level HR queries than Quarter 1 2024 due to...
...Computing Platform. We code in the open by default. All software we release to the public is under Open Government Licence or equivalent. Our developers work in multidisciplinary agile teams...
...this means we have the right tools for the job of promoting UK exports, attracting foreign investment and developing trade policy, it’s a real challenge for data protection. Or, at...
...released open-source code on which our own code depends. To benefit from community contributions, encourage reuse across government, and to work transparently in the public interest, we also publish our...
...re-inventing things other departments have already done. Redbox is a fantastic example of this. Through joint workshops, employee secondment, bi-weekly collaboration sessions and code-sharing with the I.AI team, DBT’s AI...
...or we weren’t sure whether their laptop needed to be replaced. Things which we couldn’t fix using code, we needed users to tell us. This meant that we couldn’t simply...
...from unstructured data, or even write code. Government departments routinely handle confidential and personal data. Therefore, using public AI tools that transmit data externally can post significant security and privacy...
...input text, FactVerifAI uses its extract claims function (see code) to identify fact-checkable claims based on the model's understanding. Retrieve - for each extracted claim, it queries web search APIs...
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