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Attorney General's Office is Using OpenAI's GPT-4 to Process Massive Backlog
Last March, the Attorney General's Office (AGU, by its Portuguese acronym), which represents the interests of the federal government in the legal system, became one of the first Brazilian public sector institutions to adopt OpenAI's GPT-4, which is already embedded in Microsoft's cloud service Azure, which is an AGU supplier.
As of the end of 2022, Microsoft and its subsidiaries had contracts with more than 280 government agencies.
Background: “We've been using machine learning and other document classification algorithms for over a decade, but we've been looking for ways to better structure, semantically classify and derive insights from the vast amounts of legal documents we deal with every day,” Francisco Alexandre Colares, AGU's secretary for governance and strategic management, told The Brazilian Report.
AGU engineers had been trying to develop a model based on Google's AI, BERT, but after the OpenAI boom in late 2022, they realized they didn't need to build their own model because the technology Microsoft has invested in covered most of what they needed. “Like other organizations, we filled out a form in early 2023, expressed interest in testing the model, and were quickly selected,” Corrales said, adding that Amazon's AWS-based model was also evaluated.
SuperSapiens. Last June, the new technology was integrated with AGU’s electronic document management tool, SuperSapiens, and testing began in two key areas:
Coordination of the Small Claims Court (Out-of-Court Mediation Bench)…Fabiane Ziolla Menezes
Former Editor-in-Chief of LABS (Latin American Business Stories), Fabian has more than 15 years of experience reporting on business, finance, innovation and cities in Brazil. Recently, she returned to the classroom to earn a Master's in Urban Management from PUCPR. At TBR, she focuses on economic policy, innovative businesses and the people driving innovation in Latin America.
