Albania’s so-called state minister for AI, Diella, will soon ‘give birth’ to 83 children.
The e-mum-to-be Balkan’s news was revealed yesterday by the country’s prime minister, Edi Rama, at the Berlin Global Dialogue conference.
Rama said the minister’s offspring will be virtual assistants assigned to 83 MPs from the ruling Socialist Party, according to NDTV.
‘Each one will serve as an assistant for them, who will participate in parliamentary sessions and will keep a record of everything that happens and will suggest members of parliament,’ Rama said.
‘These children will have the knowledge of their mother.’
Rama explained that Diella’s ‘children’ will help MPs carry out day-to-day tasks until 2026.
‘For example, if you go for coffee and forget to come back to work, this child will say what was said when you were not in the hall and will say who you should counter-attack,’ he said.
Diella was ‘born’ in January when it was launched as a virtual assistant on the government’s web portal, according to its official profile page.
The text-based chatbot answers questions and helps people and businesses obtain state documents on e-Albania.
Diella, which means ‘sun’ in Albanian, was developed by the National Agency for Information Society with Microsoft.
It’s a large language model, a type of neural network that learns skills by analysing massive amounts of text from across the internet.
‘Diella 2.0’ was launched a few months later, now with a voice function as well as an animated avatar wearing traditional Albanian dress.
Albanian officials have yet to reveal exactly what makes Diella tick, other than saying it uses the latest AI models and methods.
But the software got quite the promotion last month, when it was made a minister to oversee government contracts with private companies.
