USDA · USDA-144 · record R1442
Recreation site chatbot
Department of Agriculture · Natural Resources and Environment
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
- Science
- Operational functions
- Chatbot or virtual assistant Derived by keyword rules; see methodology
Problem the AI is intended to solve
Estimating recreation use at recreation sites.
Expected benefits
Addressing requirements of the federal Expanding Public Lands Outdoor Recreation Experiences (EXPLORE) Act.
System outputs
A dataset of text provided by recreation visitors.
Technology
- AI classification
- Natural language processingSource: Natural Language Processing: AI that processes, interprets, and shares information in human language.
- System name(s)
- Not reported
- Custom-developed code
- No
- Public source code
- Not reported
Sourcing
- How it was built
- Contract and in-houseSource: c) Developed with both contracting and in-house resources
- Vendor (as reported)
- University of Washington
- Vendors (standardized)
- None on the standard list
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
- No
- Demographic features
- k) None of the above
- Training and evaluation data
- Comparison of output between training dataset and human coding. Ongoing quality analysis (QA) and quality control (QC) checks.
- 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