In a historic move, Japan is making use of OpenAI’s ChatGPT to simplify its often-opaque government regulations. This is the first time that a government agency has overtly embraced this state-of-the-art AI system. Tetsuro Nomura, the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, has announced that they will use the chatbot to make official documents more accessible. This chatbot will only handle publicly available information, as per Nomura’s assertion on Tuesday during a news conference.
As per reports from Asahi paper, the ministry will use the technology to update their manuals on how to fill out forms for subsidies and other public assistance. Every year, regulations see thousands of pages of change, and it is an arduous process for people to manually update the homepage. The ChatGPT technology shall help sidelining this labor-intensive process.
ChatGPT was tested in a Japanese parliamentary debate, when an opposition lawmaker used the chatbot to draft questions to the Prime Minister.
OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco, California, and founded in late 2015. Its mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. It was founded by a group of engineers and scientists, mostly from the deep learning research group that existed at the University of Toronto. It is backed by a number of investors including tech giants such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Intel, and NVIDIA.
Tetsuro Nomura is the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in the government of Japan. He is also a member of the National Diet of Japan and is a member of the party Liberal Democratic Party. He is one of the most experienced politicians in Japan, having served in a number of different positions in the government and in the party since the mid-1990s. He is well-versed in municipal government and is viewed as an authority on agricultural policy, particularly when it comes to sustainability and rural development.
