OpenAI Public Sector Europe

Government of Iceland

Customer Service Automation · Document Processing

"Now we can just jump directly to the general capabilities of the large models," Þorsteinsson says, "and enable things with our language that used to require a lot of manual labor, data preparation and resource collection for each use case." RLHF produces results with just 100 examples, which makes it more feasible...

"The partnership was envisioned not only as a way to boost GPT-4’s ability to service a new corner of the world, but also as a step towards creating resources that could serve to promote the...
Any language model, depending on the strength and breadth of data training, has a scale of tasks it can perform. Simple language models are limited to simple tasks like assessing the sentiment of a...
Even GPT‑4, while much better at Icelandic than GPT‑3.5, produces Icelandic with grammatical errors, "translationese", and incorrect cultural knowledge. To change this, Vilhjálmur Þorsteinsson, chief...
The partnership was envisioned not only as a way to boost GPT‑4’s ability to service a new corner of the world, but also as a step towards creating resources that could serve to promote the...

Reported impact

Business outcome

The partnership was envisioned not only as a way to boost GPT‑4’s ability to service a new corner of the world, but also as a step towards creating resources that could serve to promote the preservation of other low-resource languages.

  • Compliance
  • Customer Experience
  • Productivity Improvement

Solution

"Now we can just jump directly to the general capabilities of the large models," Þorsteinsson says, "and enable things with our language that used to require a lot of manual labor, data preparation and resource collection for each use case." RLHF produces results with just 100 examples, which makes it more feasible for other low-resource languages, with less digital language data available, to replicate the process. In a process called Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback, or RLHF, human testers give GPT‑4 a prompt, and four possible completions are generated. Testers then select the best answer from the four responses and edit it to create an ideal completion. The data from this process is then used to further train GPT‑4 to produce better responses in the future.

Data flow

In a process called Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback, or RLHF, human testers give GPT‑4 a prompt, and four possible completions are generated. Testers then select the best answer from the four responses and edit it to create an ideal completion.

Solution architecture

4 components · 2 layers
  1. Compute
    • GPT-4 Provides the reasoning layer used to generate and evaluate outputs.
    • GPT-3.5 Supports earlier generation and classification tasks in the deployment.
    • GPT-3 Supports early experimentation before newer models took over the workflow.
  2. Serving
    • Embla Provides the Icelandic voice-assistant experience built on top of the language-preservation effort.

Architecture clues

  • Any language model, depending on the strength and breadth of data training, has a scale of tasks it can perform.
  • In a process called Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback, or RLHF, human testers give GPT‑4 a prompt, and four possible completions are generated.
  • Prior to RLHF, the process of fine-tuning a model was labor and data-intensive. Þorsteinsson’s team attempted to fine-tune a GPT‑3 model with 300,000 Icelandic language examples...
  • Provides the reasoning layer used to generate and evaluate outputs.
  • Supports earlier generation and classification tasks in the deployment.

Evidence from the source

"Now we can just jump directly to the general capabilities of the large models,"
"Now we can just jump directly to the general capabilities of the large models," Þorsteinsson says, "and enable things with our language that used to require a lot of manual...
"and enable things with our language that used to require a lot of manual labor, data preparation and resource collection for each use case."
In a process called Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback, or RLHF, human testers give GPT‑4 a prompt, and four possible completions are generated.
Transparency Evidence & methodology 81/100 reference value · 89% confidence · 1 source

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Scoring methodology

How scores are calculated

Customer Reference Value measures usefulness as a customer reference. Evidence Confidence measures the quality and traceability of available evidence, not independent verification.

Customer reference value81/100
  • Problem clarity20/20
    Measures whether the customer's operational problem is specific enough to compare.
  • Implementation depth20/25
    Rewards named components, data flow, integrations, and architecture detail.
  • Outcome specificity16/20
    Measures whether the reported benefit is concrete rather than a generic claim.
  • Quantified impact15/25
    1 metric describe measurable impact.
  • Deployment scale10/10
    Rewards evidence of a live or scaled deployment and meaningful integration scope.
Evidence confidence89%
  • Source authority20/25
    The main evidence is an official vendor-published customer story.
  • Claim traceability21/25
    10 of 12 key fields link to a named source.
  • Direct evidence20/20
    4 direct source quotes retained.
  • Date provenance10/10
    The publication date comes from the source page or publisher.
  • Source transparency8/10
    1 source reference document publisher, URL, authority, retrieval, and supported fields.
  • Implementation specificity10/10
    Rewards source-backed components, data flow, quantified impact, and a specific outcome.
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Traceability

Sources & provenance

Field coverage shows which facts each source supports. Dates are shown only when documented by the source.

  1. OpenAI

    Government of Iceland customer story

    First-party
    https://openai.com/index/government-of-iceland/
    Source type
    Vendor-published customer story
    Published
    Jan 4, 2024
    Supports
    • Customer
    • Business problem
    • Solution
    • Products
    • Solution components
    • Data flow
    • Integrations
    • technical area
    • use case category
    • Business outcome
    • outcome category
    • Metrics
    • Architecture
    • evidence quotes
    • Publication date

Date evidence

  • Published on source page Jan 4, 2024 · OpenAI · First-party
    Open date source
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