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Japan eyes AI adoption as OpenAI CEO visits PM Kishida, talks up local expansion
- seydor 3y agoAI governments incoming. I propose they give a name that inspires trust and love, something like "Big Brother"
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- karaokeyoga 3y agoOther Sibling
- jutrewag 3y agoI don’t. There are gender/sex based connotations to the term that aren’t interchangeable.
- fatherzine 3y ago[flagged]
- konart 3y agoOnee-san
- klibertp 3y agoMore like onee-sama or anego.
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- politelemon 3y agoAI-bo
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- proc0 3y agoSome related pop sci-fi: in the game Deus Ex they call it "Daedalus". A super intelligent AI that evolved to replace government. The main character has an encounter with the prototype (called Morpheus) and it just drops some fascinating dialogue for a game released more than 20 years ago. > "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."
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- carabiner 3y agoPart of why I think autocracies will outpace democracies, like China and the US. With better computational analysis, data collection, and advances in theory, we can do far better than the mass trial and error of a free market. We design cars, airplanes with simulation, but we don't do that with the economy because it's been too complex. Imagine a simulation of 400 million chatgpt's as citizens and being able to tweak those levers in an ensemble with 10,000 different outcomes.
- UncleEntity 3y agoYou know, I was thinking about this very thing just yesterday. 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.
- swexbe 3y agoA well designed system will have fail safes.
- mindvirus 3y agoThat was always the promise of autocracy though. However the question becomes what's being optimized for. Autocracy isn't optimizing for the good of the nation, but securing the wealth and power of the elites.
- ilkke 3y ago> Autocracy isn't optimizing for the good of the nation, but securing the wealth and power of the elites. 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
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- quadcore 3y agoYesterday I asked myself the following question: would you rather be judged by a judge or by GPT5?
- GoblinSlayer 3y agoThe japanese variant is the Sibyl system.
- p-e-w 3y agoGovernments around the world are salivating at the thought of using AI as a tool to control their people. 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.
- carra 3y agoNot only that: once AI gets good enough at management, there will come a point where governors will need a pretty good justification if they ever choose to go against what the AIs recommend.
- gumballindie 3y ago> measures to remedy privacy breach concerns to the Italian regulator. Nothing about ip theft tho. I suppose it's about time we update open source licenses to include a clause banning ai product training.
- fomine3 3y agowhy
- gumballindie 3y agocoz reselling code without permission is not OK
- fomine3 3y agoIt's okay to make it closed source if you want
- gumballindie 3y agoNah, I'll report ip theft as soon as my license is violated.
- UncleEntity 3y agoReport to whom, the IP Police?
- jacquesm 3y agoIn a way, yes. You file suit for infringement of your license and assuming your pockets are deep enough you should - no guarantees - prevail in court and get some kind of injunction out of it. More likely though is that the other party would try to settle. Copyright is a pretty strong set of laws.
- gumballindie 3y ago
- chaostheory 3y agoThe need for continually improving AI inevitable. We have an age population bomb where retirees will soon outnumber working adults. This is no longer just a problem in Japan, South Korea, and Italy. It’s a growing problem everywhere in all but central Africa. Even the majority of Africa is affected by it. Its cause is not primarily socioeconomic either. The more industrialized the nation, the more pronounced the effects.
- fomine3 3y agoThe group who met CEO also met Web3 crypto scammers. I don't expect most of them are capable people, but they just ride boom.
- AraceliHarker 3y agoIn Japan, the craze for virtual currencies, NFTs, and metaverses is still going strong.
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- quadcore 3y agoIm not able to tell - using web search - if chatGPT is available in China.
- Daz1 3y agoAI adoption? Wish they'd eye allowing me to pay my power bill in something other than cash at familymart
- fomine3 3y agoJust setup auto payment by credit card or direct debit
- AraceliHarker 3y agoThe Japanese government has a feverish obsession with My Number, a universal ID system that encompasses everything from identity proof to health insurance and tax verification. Think of the possibilities if they paired it with AI. They would wield a formidable weapon to regulate the Japanese populace like never before.
- tetris11 3y agoTrue. At the same time, to do what though? You can't force the new generation to have children to plug the retirement gap, because the new generation already want children, but simply can't afford them. I'm not sure what brainwashing of the population can accomplish, if the decision making is already pressed up against the wall
- Legogris 3y agoNo joke. And the obsession boils down to local governments too. 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.
- AraceliHarker 3y agoI can't imagine what would happen if we let the government use AI, when they have been so careless with our personal information. For years, they have been using LINE, a messenger app run by NAVER, a Korean company with a Japanese subsidiary. They didn't notice that LINE was storing the data of Japanese users on servers in Korea and China. How can we trust them with something as powerful and dangerous as AI, when they can't even protect our privacy from foreign eyes? It's a scary thought.
- numair 3y agoIt’s a bit of a dirty secret that Japan actually has abysmal data privacy and enforcement. The budget of the regulator in charge of these matters all but ensures that they will do too little, too late. Japanese companies need to proactively work to prevent OpenAI from grabbing data sets that put it in a position in Japan similar to Palantir and the NHS. 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.
- jacquesm 3y ago> The budget of the regulator in charge of these matters all but ensures that they will do too little, too late. You could say that about many countries.
- ChatGTP 3y agoWow, seems like an absolute nightmare, fun times ahead. Sam Altman, job title: manager of the world.