One Japanese city has decided to use ChatGPT across its workforce to test if artificial intelligence bots are as effective as they are being made up to be. This choice was made in response to worker scarcity and curiosity with the possibility of increased efficiency.
The first city in the country to adopt the new technology is Yokosuka in Kanagawa Prefecture, which on Thursday started a one-month experiment allowing each of its 4,000 municipal employees to utilize OpenAI's ChatGPT for administrative duties as a method to improve operations.
The population is declining, hence there are fewer employees available. However, Takayuki Samukawa, a public relations agent for Yokosuka's digital management division, told the outlet that there are several administrative difficulties.
In order to free up human resources for tasks that can only be completed in a person-to-person setting, we want to deploy practical ICT [Information Communication Technology] technologies like ChatGPT.
According to the newspaper, Samukawa stated that the city intends to employ ChatGPT during its trial for duties including summarising and producing papers as well as creating material for marketing and communications.
Yokosuka is the first Japanese city to try out ChatGPT, but the federal government has indicated it is open to using the technology all throughout the country after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's visit earlier this month.
On April 10, Altman met with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and other representatives to go about the advantages and disadvantages of the new chatbot.
After that, the CEO declared that he was thinking about setting up an OpenAI office in the nation, and Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno declared that the government would seek to "use AI to reduce the workloads of national public servants" provided security issues with the technology were resolved.
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