Youth Net Safety Countermeasures 2.0

　A task force committed to supporting the safety and peace of mind of young people on the internet. Is being debated in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. And I am serving as chairman. 　   It has been 8 years since EMA, a content filtering agency, and 7 years since the platform “Japan Internet Safety Promotion Association (JISPA)” (a joint effort by industry, academia, and the government), were established as safety countermeasures for young people on the internet. 　After that, for a time there was a temporary...

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The Impact of AI

  The subtitle to Masakazu Kobayashi’s Impact of AI is, “Is Artificial Intelligence an Enemy of the Human Race.?” And his answer to this question is “no.” He depicts how PC and internet technologies are comparable to AI and the next generation of robots, and how AI and the next generation of robots will  revolutionize all industries.  As Mr. Kobayashi lays out, the history of AI has been a hard road. Minsky, an MIT professor attested to the limits of neural networks in the 50s, and after a boom during the 1st and 2nd generations,...

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An “Extremely Leisurely Society” is Probably Coming.

 　We are worried about the super smart society of AI, IoT and robots, or what is called the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Society 5.0. 　   We are worried whether or not AI is going to go out of control like HAL. There are already examples of bots who spout hate and stir up society. There have also been incidents where robots have injured people, and cases where robots killed people. 　   What is more concerning than anything else is the theory that  owing to the spread of AI and IoT, half of the work will be stolen. A...

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