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CHATBOTS

Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 30, 2023
G7 digital ministers agree to pursue responsible AI as ChatGPT booms
They also agreed to promote secure and smooth cross-border data flows — one of Japan’s key goals for the two-day meeting — as more countries look to tighten regulations on the flow of data.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 29, 2023
Behind EU lawmakers' challenge to rein in ChatGPT and generative AI
Interviews reveal for the first time how over just 11 days a small group of politicians hammered out legislation that could reshape the regulatory landscape for OpenAI and its competitors.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 28, 2023
Japan looks to enable cross-border data flows at G7 tech meeting
The meeting in Gunma Prefecture is also expected to discuss the use of generative AI applications, such as ChatGPT, and how they should be governed.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 25, 2023
China says chatbots must toe the party line
The Communist Party outlined draft rules that would set guardrails on the rapidly growing industry of services like ChatGPT.
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
Apr 21, 2023
The promise and peril of AI take shape and demand action
The world must now begin to understand and properly exploit AI while minimizing to the best of its ability the dangers it poses.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 20, 2023
Yokosuka becomes Japan's first city to use ChatGPT for administrative tasks
Roughly 4,000 municipal employees at Yokosuka’s city office began using the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot for a one-month trial in an effort to improve operations.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Apr 20, 2023
Michael Schumacher's family planning legal action over AI 'interview'
Michael Schumacher's family is planning legal action against a German weekly magazine over an "interview" with the seven-time Formula One champion that was generated by artificial intelligence.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 19, 2023
Demand rising amid AI frenzy, says chip-testing maker Advantest
A global race to develop powerful computing clusters and next-generation AI-training systems is spurring chipmakers to buy many more of the Tokyo-based company’s testing tools.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 19, 2023
ChatGPT could expose corporate secrets, cyber firm warns
There are concerns that confidential information fed into chatbots now could be used by AI companies in the future.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 19, 2023
Daiwa to start using AI chatbot spurned by Wall Street banks
Japan’s second-biggest brokerage plans to adopt the ChatGPT technology from this month for all of its 9,000 domestic employees, adding that it has 'limitless potential.”
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 14, 2023
Japan not considering regulations on ChatGPT
Economic security minister Sanae Takaichi said there is no need to regulate ChatGPT, while underlining the importance of measures to reduce the risk of personal data leaks.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 10, 2023
ChatGPT creator OpenAI plans office and expansion in Japan
CEO Sam Altman said he had a broad discussion with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida about both the advantages and risks of the chatbot technology.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 10, 2023
Competing with robots is making work worse
As more tasks become automated, we need to stop letting robotic machines set the pace.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 10, 2023
The idiocy that will come with a reliance on AI
The real danger with AI is not that people will mistake a chatbot for a real person, it is that communicating with them will make real persons talk like chatbots.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Apr 4, 2023
ChatGPT presents dilemma for Japanese companies
While some firms such as Panasonic Connect have embraced the chatbot, albeit with safeguards, others have restricted use of the service among their employees.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 31, 2023
There's no such thing as artificial intelligence
The term artificial intelligence breeds misunderstanding and helps its creators avoid culpability for mistakes.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 21, 2023
Nearly half of firms are drafting policies on ChatGPT use
What those policies will look like may end up varying widely. Some firms have banned the chatbot, while others have embraced it.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.

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