Meta and the UK Government initiated a £1 million 'Open Source AI Fellowship' to integrate leading AI experts into Whitehall. Funded by Meta's grant to the Alan Turing Institute, the program aims to develop advanced tools for government agility and support the Plan for Change. Focused on open-source models, the fellowship will address high-security challenges and enhance AI applications like 'Humphrey', which aids civil servants by streamlining processes. With this initiative, both organizations strive to leverage AI technology to improve public service delivery and efficiency.
Open-source technologies have great potential to help government increase productivity, support decision-making, and deliver better public services. These fellowships will offer an innovative way to match AI experts with the real world challenges our public services are facing.
Fellows will work with open source models - including Meta's Llama models - to tackle high-security challenges such as live language translation for national security operations and the analysis of construction planning data to speed up approvals and accelerate home building.
The AI suite named 'Humphrey' is already assisting civil servants by summarising lengthy documents, taking notes in meetings and collating consultation responses. By removing administrative burdens, Humphrey has already shown how open-source technology can boost productivity and free staff to focus on policy and delivery.
Joel Kaplan, Meta's Chief Global Affairs Officer, described the Fellowship as a way to 'bring innovation and technical expertise' to government solutions.
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