News ChatGPT misidentifies Kono Taro for Prime Minister

"I asked ChatGPT who Kono Taro is, and he came back with the wrong answer," Kono said in an interview with Bloomberg Television broadcast Monday. "So you need to be careful," he added. Kono asks that his name be written in Japanese, with his surname first. [...] "Robots are not a threat to the labour force in Japan" because of the shrinking population, Kono said. "We are more eager to try new AI technologies," he added, saying the government was discussing data set creation with Microsoft Corp. and other technology providers. "The minority language data set compared to English is not big so it could be skewed," he said. SoftBank Group Corp.'s mobile unit last week announced it is joining the global race to develop a version of OpenAI Inc.'s ChatGPT, following a series of US and Chinese firms. Kono, appointed to his current post last year, has long battled to do away with cumbersome government paperwork and the use of older technologies, like fax machines and floppy disks. He is seeking to pass a bill as soon as this month that would remove such requirements from more than 10,000 laws and regulations after a search through paperwork stretching back for decades, he said. The government's bid to issue ID cards for all residents, which streamline the issuance of local government paperwork, hit a snag recently when card users were mistakenly given residence certificates for unrelated individuals, triggering privacy concerns. Kono said he believed local governments would start rerunning the program after thorough checks by Fujitsu, the system developer.

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thomas said:

Perhaps wishful thinking: when Kono Taro, Japan's Minister for Digital Affairs, asked ChatGPT who "Kono Taro" was, he was identified as Japan's Prime Minister.

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