Final Reading: Meet ChatVT, the state of Vermont’s homemade AI chatbot – VTDigger

These days, everything seems to be powered, augmented or enhanced by artificial intelligence: phones, software, movies, etc.

Now, add the state of Vermont to that list. For the past few months, all Vermont state employees have had access to a bespoke AI chatbot named — of course — ChatVT.

“It doesn’t look that exciting,” Josiah Raiche, Vermont’s chief data and AI officer, said in an interview last month. “It…