14 April 2025 – UNIBOT, UNICEF’s AI Assistant
Dear colleagues,
Marking a significant step in UNICEF’s digital transformation and aligning with the recently shared AI strategy, UNIBOT, UNICEF’s new AI assistant, is now available in a global rollout.
Drawing from our SharePoint sites, www.unicef.org, data.unicef.org, and knowledge.unicef.org, UNIBOT helps you find UNICEF information quicker, giving all of us more time to create meaningful impact for children. UNIBOT works best for quick guidance on general UNICEF knowledge, not for sensitive tasks or deep research. For example, it can help explain acronyms, find SharePoint documents, locate case studies, or collate main points from strategy materials. Since UNIBOT retrieves information from our SharePoint content, keeping our sites organized and current will help produce more helpful answers for all of us.
Get started here: UNIBOT
We encourage staff to try UNIBOT with curiosity and an open mind during this initial phase. Your feedback will shape how we improve this tool over time as GenAI continues to evolve at lightning speed. Feedback will also help us define what responsible AI looks like in our work. You can find feedback and incident report forms on UNIBOT's SharePoint page, linked above.
Finally, do keep in mind that there is a cost each time UNIBOT is used, so please do so thoughtfully and purposefully.
What will you ask UNIBOT today? |
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I asked, "How many countries in Africa are up-to-date on their CRC reporting?" and I got no answer. Then, I asked ChatGPT the same question and got an answer.
ReplyDeleteIf this is correct, it seems that UNICEF could save some money.
DeleteAccording to Chatgpt, UNICEF Country Offices in Africa seem to have some work lined up helping governments with their reporting.
ReplyDeleteCountry Offices already have a hard time reporting on their meaningful impact for children; that is why UNIBOT has been developed.
DeleteOne can't help getting the impression that ChatGPT, when it comes to the gold standard benchmark CRC, does a better job than UNIBOT.
DeleteAnd it is free
DeleteAI learns every time a question is asked of it, explores new parameters on every topic. What is surprising (maybe terrifying) is that I asked the question about "the time-duration policy for UNICEF retirees before they can become individual consultants". It responded correctly 90 days (and even the special clause for Supply Staff). So it can acquire policy information from the intranet/sharepoint which is password protected (for us) and there may not be a need for HR policy referrals anymore.
DeleteWho needs consultants, if UNIBOT (or CHATGPT) can do it for you for free?
DeleteIf you could make AI "Touch the Money", three-quarters of the staff could be laid off.
DeleteThis deserves a Ditty:
ReplyDeleteOh! news comes from the senior most Abbot,
UNICEF has a new AI assistant, UNIBOT,
It is still not time tested, a real tot,
Barely out of the internal cot.
Please dont think that I am a sot,
And my brains are not totally rot,
But we expect that this is the new "Hot".
It will replace everything that is com.dot,
It will find itself a relevant slot,
Even if it is the simplest spot.
All information is now in the pot,
Dont even need a cue to jot,
What is relevant or what is not,
We must live through this whole lot,
It might be all that the Agency has got.