World News | ChatGPT developer willing to open office in Japan, fears usage

Tokyo [Japan]April 10 (ANI): The ChatGPT developer said on Monday his company plans to open an office in Japan amid growing concerns over chatbots’ unauthorized collection of personal data and impact on learning environments, Kyodo News reported. .

U.S.-based OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo, as the dangers of artificial intelligence are expected to be discussed at Japan’s G7 ministerial meeting on digital issues in late April.

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In an interview with reporters, Altman said he explained the advantages and disadvantages of ChatGPT to Prime Minister Kishida, who will host the G7 summit in his Hiroshima constituency in May, while saying that the prime minister has shown interest in artificial intelligence technology.

According to Kyodo News, a chatbot is a computer program programmed to process and reproduce human-like conversations with users using vast amounts of data from the internet.

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ChatGPT, which stands for Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer, launched in November 2022 as a prototype powered by a machine learning model that mimics the function of the human brain.

The discussions between Kishida and Altman come at a time when several countries are tightening restrictions on the use of ChatGPT, amid concerns that OpenAI may violate users’ privacy by collecting large amounts of personal information without their consent, Japan’s Kyodo News reported.

Altman expressed a desire to discuss AI technology and his company’s ChatGPT with politicians around the world.

Japan’s education ministry has been struggling to develop guidelines on the use of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence chatbots in schools amid growing concerns that they could affect students’ writing and thinking skills.

“We discussed the advantages of the technology and how to mitigate the disadvantages,” Altman said after meeting with Kishida, hoping that AI chatbots will succeed in Japan as their models become better suited to the country’s language and culture.

Japan will study the use of chatbot technology to reduce administrative demands on civil servants, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said on Monday.

However, the government’s top spokesman did stress that the idea could only be implemented if concerns over handling private data leaks and secret information were allayed, Kyodo News reported. (Arnie)

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