Japanese city councils testing the AI waters for admin work


THE Yokosuka City Hall in the Kanagawa prefecture will be the first local government in Japan to use ChatGPT in its offices, China Press reported.

In a one-month trial, its 4,000 employees will use the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot created by OpenAI to document minutes of meetings and help with administrative work starting April 20.

Due to privacy issues, its civil servants are prohibited from entering personal and confidential data into ChatGPT.

On April 18, the Kanagawa prefecture government even issued a press statement using ChatGPT, with minor edits from council officers.

Other local governments in Japan are also eager to incorporate ChatGPT into their operations.

In Toda City in the Saitama prefecture, a 16-member research team was set up to study the possibility of its city hall using ChatGPT to automatically answer questions from the public.

> Former TVB actress Linda Chung, a mother of three, has decided not to have another child, China Press reported.

The Canada-based star was back in Hong Kong recently with her chiropractor husband Jeremy Leung and their children for a commercial shoot.

She told reporters that she resolved to “stop at three” after discussing it with Leung.

The couple have two daughters Kelly, six, and six-month-old Anika Linda. Their son Jared is four.

Chung, 39, also said that being a mother and bringing up children was tougher than acting in a movie.

● The above article is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with this ' >'sign, it denotes a separate news item.

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