Kaohsiung mayor faces questions from ChatGPT

Kaohsiung, June 5 (CNA) In an apparent first, a Kaohsiung city councilor used the AI chatbot ChatGPT to question the city’s mayor Chen Chi-mai (陳其邁) about Taiwan’s struggles with its declining birthrate and aging population at a city council hearing.

At the hearing, Kaohsiung City Councilor Kuo Chien-meng (郭建盟) broadcast a video of text and data prompts he gave the program’s GPT-4 model about the country’s low birthrate, from which it produced a 960-word response in about 30 seconds.

In its response, ChatGPT noted an average of 14.4 elementary schools are closed every year in…