The Japanese division of Microsoft Corp. will launch a separate isolated version of ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot, which will be able to process classified information of government ministries and departments and confidential corporate data of Japanese companies.
Unlike the publicly available ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer), the new version of the generative artificial intelligence (AI) service will process all information in data centers in Japan and will not transfer it to servers outside the country.
As the publication notes, Japan will be the third region in which Microsoft will launch a similar service after the United States and Europe.
The Japanese government plans to use ChatGPT to reduce the excessive workload of officials in a number of areas, in particular, preparing for questions at parliamentary meetings and recording various types of meetings and meetings.
Microsoft announced plans for the new service in late July at a meeting at the headquarters of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in Tokyo, and guaranteed that sensitive information would remain in Japan without being accessed from abroad.
Most of the members of parliament and the government present at that meeting welcomed this step, expressing hope that the new technology will be widely demanded in various fields, in particular, in finance, defense and medicine.