Faced with a labor shortage and curious about the potential for increasing efficiency, Yokosuka City in Kanagawa Prefecture has opted to use a revolutionary artificial intelligence service called ChatGPT from OpenAI to help with their operations. This makes Yokosuka the first city in Japan to implement this technology on such a large scale.
The city’s digital management department have announced that the 4,000 municipal employees will be given access to this AI-driven chatbot for the next month in order to maximize the city’s productivity. These employees will be able to use the bot for tasks such as summarizing documents, drafting them, and creating copy for marketing and communications.
The Japanese government has acknowledged the potential of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and considers it safe with its necessary measures being done. This thought was shared to the public after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met with the Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and other officials on the 10th of April. Sam Altman has also discussed the potential of opening an Asian office in Japan for OpenAI, the AI research institute he co-founded.
OpenAI is a research institute focused on developing Artificial Intelligence that is beneficial to the world and society. The research institute is comprised of the most outstanding engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs in the world. The company has already launched some notable projects such as GPT-2, a human language generation system. OpenAI is based in California and has offices in Tokyo, San Francisco and New York.
The company’s CEO Sam Altman is a well-known entrepreneur, investor, programmer and scientist. He is the president of Y Combinator, a startup accelerator, and has actively invested in over 800 hundred companies that are part of the YC portfolio. He is also the co-author of the book “AI Superpowers” and is the key figure of the AI Grant movement, an initiative meant to support open source AI research.
