Every day, the correspondents’ club describes how the same current event is illustrated in three countries.
In Japan, the government intends to use the conversational robot, while in Singapore, we prefer for the moment to set up specific courses, dedicated to teachers.
AI not incompatible with the educational sphere in Singapore
In Singapore, the Ministry of Education puts it bluntly: artificial intelligence (AI) tools are likely to become ubiquitous in the future, so you have to know how to master them. “As with any technology, ChatGPT and similar AI tools present both opportunities and challenges for users”justified the Minister of Education Chan Chun Sing, comparing the arrival of this state-of-the-art robot to that of the calculator a few decades ago.
While in France, Science Po has banned the use of AI for fear of plagiarism or fraud among students, the Ministry of Education in Singapore indicates that different types of teacher evaluation cannot be generated by ChatGPT, such as lectures, or projects that require analysis, field notes, and observation details.
The Japanese government wants to use ChatGPT
Although Japan is considered a technological power, honesty obliges to say that when it comes to artificial intelligence, it is not the best placed country. Japan is therefore watching American artificial intelligences, including ChatGPT, with great curiosity. So much so that the executives of the ruling party invited and received with great fanfare Sam Altman, the PGG of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. OpenAI plans to expand its presence in Japan to improve system performance in the Japanese language.
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While many countries show great distrust of ChatGPT or other artificial intelligences, especially of foreign origin, the Japanese state certainly does not deny the risks, but at the very least does not seem to apprehend the American AI with as many fears as in Europe.
“I have done several tests with ChatGPT and we obtain texts close to the government’s responses to Parliament”
Japan’s economy minister
“If the data used is very recent, the workload of civil servants could be considerably reduced by entrusting these responses to Chat GPT, says the Minister of the Economy Yasutoshi Nishimura. I really want people to think about this type of use.”
The Minister of the Economy in Japan therefore proposes to entrust ChatGPT with the drafting of ministers’ responses to questions posed by elected officials in Parliament. He specifies that this requires removing certain risks, but Yasutoshi Nishimura is very confident in the considerable time saving that this would offer. It is true that Japanese state officials spend entire nights drafting ministers’ responses. The latter rarely have all the technical knowledge to respond and do not risk any improvisation.