USDA · USDA-107 · record R1405
GovChat
Department of Agriculture · Research, Education and Economics
Overview
- Development stage
- PilotSource: b) Pilot – The use case has been deployed in a limited test or pilot capacity.
- High-impact designation
- Not high-impactSource: c) Not high-impact
- Impact justification
- Not reported
- Start date
- 2024-10-01 (day precision)Source: 10/1/2024
- Withheld from public reporting
- Not reported
Mission
- Topic area
- Other
- Operational functions
- No function tag matched Derived by keyword rules; see methodology
Problem the AI is intended to solve
AI assistant that helps with time consuming tasks such as getting answers to general inquiries using natural language
Expected benefits
A general chatbot without a proprietary interface that can accelerate completion of mundane tasks by employees
System outputs
Text-based responses to a user’s input prompts
Technology
- AI classification
- Generative AISource: Generative AI: AI that generates new or synthetic content (e.g., images, videos, audio, text, code).
- System name(s)
- ARS AzureGov
- Custom-developed code
- No
- Public source code
- github.com ↗
Sourcing
- How it was built
- Purchased from vendorSource: a) Purchased from a vendor
- Vendor (as reported)
- Microsoft
- Vendors (standardized)
- Microsoft
A vendor is the supplier named by the agency. It does not identify the underlying model or AI technology.
Data and privacy
- Involves PII
- No
- Privacy Impact Assessment
- Not reported
- Authorization to Operate
- Yes
- Demographic features
- k) None of the above
- Training and evaluation data
- The Large Language Model and the application were provided by Microsoft. There was no training or fine-tuning performed by USDA.
- Federal Data Catalog
- Not reported
Governance
0 of 8 minimum-practice questions answered. A blank answer means the agency reported nothing; it does not mean the practice is absent.
Pre-deployment testingNo answer reported
AI impact assessmentNo answer reported
Independent reviewNo answer reported
Ongoing monitoringNo answer reported
Operator trainingNo answer reported
Fail-safeNo answer reported
Appeal processNo answer reported
User and public consultationNo answer reported
Potential impacts and how they were identified
Not reported