It has been discovered that in Yokosuka City, Japan, a chatbot powered by AI technology is being used to perform administrative duties for the government.
The city officials have stated that the chatbot, ChatGPT, can be used by all civil servants to assist with tasks such as sentence shortening, spelling corrections, and generating fresh ideas. The decision to use ChatGPT was made due to the population crisis in Japan, and it is hoped that the chatbot will free up time for human employees to concentrate on duties that only they can perform.
However, it has been made clear that confidential or personal information will not be entered into ChatGPT. An intriguing detail included in the statement on the government website is that it was created by ChatGPT and checked for accuracy by staff.
