One goal of the initiative, which hasn’t been previously reported, is to increase the day-to-day performance of the GSA’s approximately 12, 000 employees, who are tasked with managing workplace buildings, contracts, and IT system across the federal government, according to the two people. One of their claims makes use of the robot and another AI tools to analyze sizable amounts of deal and procurement data. Both persons were granted privacy because they aren’t authorized to speak officially about the company’s operations.
In a conference on Wednesday, Thomas Shedd, a former employee of Tesla and current CEO of the systems division of the GSA, made reference to the task. ” Another]project ] I’m trying to work on is a centralized place for contracts so we can run analysis on them”, he said, according to an audio recording obtained by WIRED. ” This is not new at all—this is something that’s been in action before we started. The key difference is the possibility of building the entire program internally and building it immediately. How do we know how the state is spending money, asks the question.
One of the people who spoke with the GSA and Google about its Gemini giving said that the company made the decision to create a custom robot.
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