published by the Australian Public Service Academy (APSA) [pdf].<\/a><\/p>\nThe launch is one of several key artificial intelligence milestones reached across the Australian Public Service (APS) over the past six months, culminating in the formal commencement of a whole-of-government pilot program known as GovAI.<\/p>\n
Led by the Department of Finance, the program aims to fast-track AI adoption within the public service, provide access to AI tools for all agencies and reduce duplication of resources and investment.<\/p>\n
The program is currently in a closed beta phase with selected agencies but is expected to be expanded by November this year.<\/p>\n
Since January this year, several \u201cfoundations\u201d have been laid, including embedding a Microsoft-based AI hosting service within the APS-wide collaboration platform, GovTEAMS.<\/p>\n
According to the presentation, several agencies have onboarded to the hosting service so far, while early scoping for Amazon-hosted AI services also commenced before the end of FY25.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A presentation timeline published by APSA reveals that the APS has rolled out a new general-purpose AI chat app for staff and developed two prototype applications.<\/p>\n
The first, named the Assessment Assistant app, is designed to help staff gain initial insights into applications or submissions, such as grant proposals.<\/p>\n
The other, known as the Knowledge Assistant app, aims to demonstrate how staff can use AI to query complex datasets, such as procurement rules.<\/p>\n
Other foundation measures include developing high-level design documents for security-assessed applications and introducing templated apps to enable faster development for small and medium-sized agencies.<\/p>\n
The program is being supported by a GovAI working group, which brings together technical experts from across government, as well as training on models including Gemini, Claude and GPT.<\/p>\n
The program is expected to be open to new AI models and hosting options before November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The federal government has quietly launched a sovereign-hosted instance of OpenAI\u2019s GPT-4o for use by the Australian Public…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-14640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}