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Government would be happy if you at least tried generating a mildly bawdy limerick<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s certainly hard to imagine life before generative AI came out. Without it, I never would have known what my microwave looked like if it were in a Studio Ghibli movie<\/a>, or felt the lingering dread that anything I read or saw online is neither authentic human expression nor correct.<\/p>\n And yet, despite these revolutionary changes to society, in its annual Communications White Paper Japan\u2019s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications says that gen-AI is being underused in Japan compared to the rest of the world<\/strong>.<\/p>\n According to the white paper, only 26.7 percent of people in Japan have ever used generative AI<\/strong>. While that nearly tripled last year\u2019s 9.1 percent usage rate, it\u2019s still far below other countries\u2019 rates, such as 81.2 in China, 68.8 in the USA, and 59.2 in Germany.<\/p>\n One might be quick to assume Japan\u2019s aging population is to blame, but even when focusing solely on people in their 20s, the rate is still only 44.7 percent, and usage by business is only slightly higher at 49.7<\/strong>. Also interesting to note is that AI usage by people in their 30s in Japan is slightly lower than by people in their 40s, with 23.8 and 29.6 percent respectively.<\/p>\n \u25bc Feline usage, however, remains abysmally low.<\/p>\n The white paper concludes that \u201cJapan is lagging behind AI-advanced countries of the world in terms of technology, industry, and applications, and further promotion of AI usage is needed in daily life.\u201d<\/strong> Online comments from trending-news Internet portal Hachima Kiko didn\u2019t disagree, but felt that certain aspects of Japanese society may need changing first.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t do anything like AI illustrations, but it\u2019s good for expanding on searches and proofreading.\u201d<\/em> In fairness, the people who were arrested were using AI to make money in illegal ways<\/a>, so I don\u2019t think that\u2019s a valid argument that Japan has a stifling environment. If anything, it shows there are AI entrepreneurs here trying to make things happen. People just need to find more legitimate applications<\/a> of it.<\/p>\n That being said, I\u2019ve recently had to deal with a few AI customer service bots from other countries and wasn\u2019t really blown away by their effectiveness. Maybe Japan can stand to be a little sluggish on AI adoption until it starts working a little more smoothly.<\/p>\n Source: Communications White Paper<\/a>, FNN Online Prime<\/a>, Hachima Kiko<\/a><\/em> Government would be happy if you at least tried generating a mildly bawdy limerick. It\u2019s certainly hard to imagine life before generative AI came out. Without it, I never would…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/soranews24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/nekocatPAR584512401_TP_V4.jpg?w=640\")
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\n\u201cI\u2019m not surprised. We\u2019re struggling to get people to use cashless payment systems.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cWe should start by replacing everyone on TV with generated characters to end all the harassment and abuse there.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cUsing AI in game rendering can greatly reduce memory usage. I wonder if Japanese game makers are looking into it properly.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cJapan needs to stop using floppy disks<\/a> and fax machines first.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cMaybe we just prefer the warmth of humanity.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cThat many people are using it in China?!\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cI think if there were a domestically produced AI, more people would get into it.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cIt\u2019s not important how widely it\u2019s used, but if it\u2019s being used properly.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cIn Japan, people who have used it to make money were arrested, and people who used it online were harassed<\/a>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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