Gov.uk smartphone app to launch with limited functionality | Apps

A government application aimed at “Cut Life Admins, will be free to download by millions of British citizens from Tuesday, but their functions will be limited and the responsible Cabinet Minister confessed:“ The design is not what we want. ”

. gov.uk The application is accessible for smart phones for people aged 16 and over, and although NHS or HM income and customs are not customary, it is aimed to be the main mobile center for the interaction of many citizens with the government.

Science and Technology Foreign Minister Peter Kyle said that the version launched this week will only direct users to the existing government web pages and add more functionality by the end of the year.

A productive artificial intelligence chatbot trained on 700,000 pages gov.uk The website is not ready yet. The technology, which allows people to cope and watch with government advantages such as child care allowances through the application, will also come later.

The application is also expected to offer personal notifications, such as when the motors of the car should be and that citizens should register to vote. If the user enters the postal code, warnings related to hot air can be adapted geographically.

Chatbot, Amazon supported by a leading Silicon Valley AI company AI will be strengthened by an Anthropic, but the authorities, but the data in the questions of citizens can not be accessed for anthropic, he said.

The main application functions to be released on Tuesday in the morning will enable users to customize the users to focus on the main government services they interact with and then use their web pages to search.

Kyle, who promised to start the practice in June in January, said, “What I don’t want to do is to say that we are exactly where we want to be in terms of service right now”. “For example, the design is not what we want… But you will be able to do things faster and find services in the past places where you can give up, because there is a pain in this neck.”

The application is being built by the government digital service, which has an internal technology branch. The launch of the application to tens of millions of people comes to the stage, which is internally described as “minimum applicable product .. In the end, it will be linked to a digital wallet that will contain a digital driver’s license until the end of the year. Kyle said that this would be “digital identity card functions, the ongoing age verification functions with the offline version of the driver’s license”.

When asked whether a digital identity can be developed to include the records of the immigration or the records of interactions with the Criminal Justice System, Kyle did not exclude it, but he said: “This is the only thing we have planned right now.”