Dragging Workforce, Cities in Japan Use AI ChatGPT to Assist City Government Administrative Tasks

Liputan6.com, Jakarta – Starting to drag labor in Japan to make a city in the land of Sakura began to use artificial intelligence or artificial intelligence (AI), to assist administrative work.

The city of Yokosuka in Kanagawa Prefecture recently started a one-month trial of using ChatGPT OpenAI by 4,000 employees of municipal government agencies, for administrative tasks.

Reported The Japan Timesthis is a way to improve operations, making Yokosuka the first city in Japan to take advantage of this new technology.

“With a declining population, the number of employees is limited. However, there are many administrative challenges,” said Takayuki Samukawa, public relations representative at Yokosuka’s digital management department.

Therefore, quoting New York PostSunday (30/4/2023), they use Information Communication Technology such as ChatGPT, so that human workers can be free to perform tasks that only humans can do.

During the pilot, Samukawa said they would use ChatGPT for tasks such as summarizing and organizing documents, and developing copy for marketing and communications.

To quote CNNthis AI chatbot will also be used to summarize sentences, check spelling mistakes, and generate ideas.

Recently, Japan has been hit by a population crisis. Yokosuka has also been hit hard, with a population of just 376,171 and expected to continue to shrink, exacerbated by the departure of large manufacturers and a lack of tourism.

This announcement of the use of AI occurred shortly after Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, creator chatbots ChatGPT met Japanese Prime Minister (PM) Fumio Kishida in Tokyo.

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