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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jun 20, 2023
Survey finds 61% of firms in Japan are positive about generative AI use
The proportion of companies that have no plans to utilize generative AI stood at 17.7%.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jun 20, 2023
Inside China’s underground market for high-end Nvidia AI chips
U.S. export restrictions have created a de facto underground market with vendors keen not to draw scrutiny from either U.S. or Chinese authorities.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 19, 2023
Danone pins turnaround hopes on AI
The firm is betting technology can give its products a scientific edge at a time when revenue is lagging and consumers are growing wary of processed food.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 18, 2023
Fukushima develops AI-based early beef evaluation system
Early and accurate assessments while cattle are still being raised are expected to help determine the timing of beef shipments and reduce costs.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 15, 2023
Governing the unknown
Major advances in AI are raising a raft of concerns about education, work, warfare and other risks that could destabilize human civilization long before climate change does.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 15, 2023
A chatbot that won’t take bribes for giving advice is a hit in India
While the change that was ushered in by ChatGPT caused alarm about AI’s role in the spread of disinformation and job losses, it’s also a tool that can aid social equality.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 13, 2023
The race to win the AI competition could doom us all
Some of the downsides of Silicon Valley are a readiness to ignore dangers and seek immediate returns, especially as it pertains to AI.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 13, 2023
Homework will ‘never be the same,’ says ChatGPT founder
Artificial intelligence tools will revolutionize education like calculators did, but will not supplant learning, said ChatGPT’s founder Sam Altman.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 12, 2023
Takashi Murakami loves and fears AI
Speaking at an exhibition opening in France, Japanese artist Takashi Murakami offered his thoughts on the positives and negatives of AI.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jun 10, 2023
OpenAI’s CEO calls on China to help shape AI safety guidelines
In both China and Silicon Valley, talent and investments are flowing into AI, a strategic area that will help define the deepening tech rivalry in the two largest economies.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 9, 2023
Can the world’s democracies survive the ‘polycrisis’?
Artificial intelligence, climate change, and Russia’s war in Ukraine are causing global angst — each of which demands urgent attention from policymakers and political leaders.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 8, 2023
Sunak pitches U.K. leadership on AI during Washington visit
The prime minister wants a future global AI regulator to be based in London, according to sources, arguing that Britain has the requisite expertise and tech sector.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 7, 2023
AI alarmists are dragging us all down a rabbit hole
An AI apocalypse, which was once relegated to the realm of fringe theory, is now getting much more attention than it should.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 5, 2023
Daiwa gives workers OK to ‘freely use’ ChatGPT as part of tech drive
The company has been strengthening the recruitment of science graduates to develop high-tech experts in house.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 2, 2023
Your first robot butler will need human eyes
Automatons that clean your house are getting closer to reality, but they’ll still need people to steer them for several years
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 1, 2023
Ukraine war may become a proving ground for AI
AI and quantum computing could revolutionize offensive operations and, perhaps more important, logistics.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 1, 2023
ChatGPT risks threaten to divide Biden administration over EU’s AI rules
U.S. national security officials say aggressively regulating this nascent technology will put the nation at a competitive disadvantage.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 31, 2023
U.S. unemployment insurance is stuck in 1935
America is relying on a unemployment system designed for the economy during the Great Depression.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 31, 2023
The AI gold rush will take humanity to some dark places
Encoding iris scans on the blockchain shows a need to curb Silicon Valley’s savior complex.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
May 31, 2023
Why is Nvidia’s market value soaring and what is its role in the AI boom?
The chipmaker produces around 80% of the chips used by generative AI systems to process data.
Murakami says his novels are ‘different’ from AI literature
Haruki Murakami's first book in three years hit shelves in Japan on Friday.
Suspected Asian fraud ring exec served fresh warrant in Japan
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and Osaka Prefectural Police have issued arrest warrants for three people, including a suspected fraud network leader, over alleged immigration and residency violations.
Japan needs caregivers. Young Indians are answering the call.
Young people in India's northeast are increasingly studying Japanese in hopes of building new lives and careers in Japan.
Tokyo hospital baby hatch accepts 20 newborns in first year
Hitoshi Kato (left), head of San-ikukai Hospital in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, speaks during a news conference at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building on Thursday.
Hayabusa2 flies past asteroid as Japan aims to acquire data for planetary defense
A graphic illustration of the Hayabusa2 probe flying past the asteroid Torifune
Japanese nail salons are tourists’ new obsession
Tourists in Japan have always been interested in quintessentially Japanese approaches to modern culture, and, increasingly, visits to nail salons have become the new hot thing.
Filmmaker explores history of discrimination against foreign nationals in Japan
Takashi Nishihara, the director of "Now and Then," in Tokyo on Wednesday. The director has spent 10 years traversing politically charged terrain while exploring youth-driven grassroots political movements that scrutinize the status quo.
Okinawa’s prized seaweed under threat as oceans warm
Local harvesters gather <i>mozuku</i> during low tide at Hyakuna Beach in the city of Nanjo, Okinawa Prefecture. As the planet warms, rising ocean temperatures are placing increasing pressure on the seaweed industry.
‘Defense,’ not ‘warfare,’ stressed as pacifist Japan beefs up capabilities
Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi attends an annual training session near Mount Fuji at Higashifuji Training Field in Gotemba, Shizuoka Prefecture, on June 7.
Japan plans to sharply raise fees for residence permits from October
Foreign tourists walk on the path leading to the Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in May.

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