Japan eyes AI adoption as OpenAI CEO visits PM Kishida, talks up local expansion
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I hope I'll be around to see the surprise and shock on their faces when they realize the "tool" is controlling them.
It doesn't even have to be conscious in order for that to happen. Decision making will become so utterly reliant on AI at every step that the people who (on paper) make the decisions will be little more than robots who do whatever the AI advises them to. Anyone who fails to adhere to that rule will be quickly outcompeted and deposed by those that do.
Those of you who are in the VC / startup space in Japan should lobby to keep this stuff within the border, or you’re going to lose the opportunity before you realize what you’ve lost. You’ll spend the rest of your careers begging OpenAI for API access to learning models built on top of your own data.
Edit: By the way, it’s worth noting that OpenAI has a ton of data on Japanese people, through its semi-secret — well, until exposed by Elon Musk — data sharing deal with Twitter. Because Twitter was so actively pushed onto the Japanese public, it became the default “open forum” for the country. That data set is, by itself, all you’d need to have your LLM generate strings of text that appear to come from a real Japanese person. It’s interesting that the government is more focused on how to ride the buzz wave, than asking questions about the permissions involved in training LLMs on this deeply personal data.
You could say that about many countries.
> "The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms."
> "The human organism always worships. First it was the gods, then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment."
> "The individual desires judgment. Without that desire, the cohesion of groups is impossible, and so is civilization."
> "The human being created civilization not because of a willingness but because of a need to be assimilated into higher orders of structure and meaning."
> "God was a dream of good government."
The marvelous world where everything is perfectly orchestrated down to the last calorie every human consumes. No wasted production, no excessive choices, just what everyone needs to be healthy.
Then a tsunami hits while another region is facing drought and half of humanity starves.
Call me cynical, but it very much seems current state of free market democracy struggles with this same issue.
Perhaps it is down to how we define what is 'good for the nation'.
edit: formatting
"not allowed to criticize"
> I'd rather have healthcare even if I'm not allowed to criticize the government on the internet.
Its cause is not primarily socioeconomic either. The more industrialized the nation, the more pronounced the effects.
I get woken up at 07:00 every other day or so (weekends included!) by an announcement on the village PA that everyone is asked to please sort out their My Number Card if they have not already done so, assistance is available in the village hall between these hours, and so on and so forth.
Supposedly all (tax?) residents already have a My Number while the My Number Card is optional. My only rationalization for the aggressive push is that there is an intention to have it adopted enough to be able to make it mandatory in various situations and for various purposes.
The experience is a bit dystopic to say the least.
Sam Altman, job title: manager of the world.
Nothing about ip theft tho. I suppose it's about time we update open source licenses to include a clause banning ai product training.
Open Source does not mean 'anything you want to do with my code'. It's a specifically enumerated set of rights.