In a press conference this week on New York City’s $12 billion budget gap, Mayor Zohran Mamdani zeroed in on the previous administration’s artificial intelligence chatbot as one of “a number of different things we’re going to pursue for savings.”

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    5 hours ago

    The only way a chatbot can accurately answer basic level questioning is if staff has put in time to do the documentation. If they have, you frequently don’t even need the chatbot because simple web searches will show up the question and answer or one of the major chatbots will have already indexed the documentation and can answer the question for free.