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Die Vereinigten Staaten und China dominieren KI aufgrund enormer Datenressourcen, globaler sprachlicher Reichweite und massiven F & E -Investitionen. Japans KI -Nutzung beträgt nur 26,7%, verglichen mit 69% in den USA und 81% in China.
Japanische Unternehmen konzentrieren sich eher auf die Kostensenkung als auf Innovation. Mit begrenzten Sprachdaten, schwacher Finanzierung und geringer Adoption ist Japan in der Rankung der Stanford University AI Vibrancy. Sein digitales Handelsdefizit könnte bis 2035 auf 45 Billionen Yen ballonieren.
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Yes? Young people can barely use computers as it is. Big corpos and old Showa men killed Japan’s young IT whiz kids in the 1990s and 2000s by prosecuting them with rigid copyright laws and bending over to American pressure. Not to mention the role of mass media in portraying anything to do with computers as ‚otaku‘ or as being detrimental to society. This is a product of Japan’s own making.
Have to say that Japanese company I’ve seen is using AI to generate spams messages, presentation, and videos. It may seems like creating spams using AI reduces cost but it’s actually wasting time and money to the company. I usually just delete them.
One innovative way I’ve found it to use AI to summarize meeting minutes and presentations. An hour meeting or a presentation can be summarized into few items in a to-do list. Thinking of using AI to create a virtual me to attend online meetings and presentations to further use my time more effectively.
Yes.
There aren’t many companies in Japan able to come up with their own systems.
However, a lot of companies are good at piggybacking on trends AND technologies, and in their own way able to create AI-based products.
Not any good products, by any comparison, but products nonetheless, for which those companies are also able to find fools to sell them to.
You guys are reading way too fucking into this (doesn’t mean it isn’t correct though).
But I’d argue its a WAY simpler explanation for this…
Its easier to develop a large **LANGUAGE** model when you have more than one Billion people using it (English and Chinese only make the cut, with Indi and Spanish with half the amount waaaay behind).
I’ve seen some statistics a while ago.
I think it was about the worlds biggest 100 IT companies and the only one in it was Rakuten. But they’re only in it because they have so much business in Japan, they failed basically everywhere else in the world.
And that’s why, of course, Japan is behind when it comes to AI. They haven’t even caught up to the rest of the world when it comes to regular IT topics.
We’ll see. They structured the copyright law to make ingestion “free.” At some point the big US AI companies are going to have to pay a ton of money to copyright holders.
Probably because
– adoption of deep AI (or agentic AI) is difficult in a country with a risk averse culture with an historical predominance of human capital and manual processes.
– no early stage funding scene to fuel innovation and small companies needed to create transition. Literally none.
As good as jp had been at making hardware for the past 50 years, software is dead 💀. Maybe lithography making a comeback though
Despite repeated claims of AI boosting productivity and yadda yadda, nothing of value has come out of it in years. Maybe this is not a bad thing?
There is a much lower acceptance of failure (mistakes) in Japan compared with the West. Currently the generative AI still hallucinates too much, its answers often requiring a lot of manual tuning and fact checking. The current AI is just not well-suited to the culture of risk aversion and perfectionism.