Blog by Roshni Singh, Hannah Chafetz, Andrew Zahuranec, Stefaan Verhulst: “The Open Data Policy Lab’s Observatory of Examples of How Open Data and Generative AI Intersect provides real-world use cases of where open data from official sources intersects with generative artificial intelligence (AI), building from the learnings from our report, “A Fourth Wave of Open Data? Exploring the Spectrum of Scenarios for Open Data and Generative AI.”
The Observatory includes over 80 examples from several domains and geographies–ranging from supporting administrative work within the legal department of the Government of France to assisting researchers across the African continent in navigating cross-border data sharing laws. The examples include generative AI chatbots to improve access to services, conversational tools to help analyze data, datasets to improve the quality of the AI output, and more. A key feature of the Observatory is its categorization across our Spectrum of Scenarios framework, shown below. Through this effort, we aim to bring together the work already being done and identify ways to use generative AI for the public good.
This Observatory is an attempt to grapple with the work currently being done to apply generative AI in conjunction with official open data. It does not make a value judgment on their efficacy or practices. Many of these examples have ethical implications, which merit further attention and study.
From September through October, we added to the Observatory:
- Bayaan Platform: A conversational tool by the Statistics Centre Abu Dhabi that provides decision makers with data analytics and visualization support.
- Berufsinfomat: A generative AI tool for career coaching in Austria.
- ChatTCU: A chatbot for Brazil’s Federal Court of Accounts.
- City of Helsinki’s AI Register: An initiative aimed at leveraging open city data to enhance civic services and facilitate better engagement with residents.
- Climate Q&A: A generative AI chatbot that provides information about climate change based on scientific reports.
- DataLaw.Bot: A generative AI tool that disseminates data sharing regulations with researchers across several African countries…(More)”.