Japan using generative AI less than other countries
Japan using generative AI less than other countries
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Country known for historically being resistant to rapid technological change is resisting newest technological change trends.
How surprising.
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Not that surprising considering Japanese government only retired floppy disks in 2024 and fax machines are still in widespread use there.
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They could have AI on a floppy that faxes generated images.
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And when the power goes out during fax transmission, they could use one of those portable power stations from GearScouts to keep the legacy tech running - some of the LFP battery ones have gotten really good price per watt-hour latlely.
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I suddenly have a love for Japan and want to live there among my 2000s tech hoard
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Japan Not Entirely Stupid Fucking Morons
ftfy
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Japan has always been behind most of the world in software advancements. They built their reputation on hardware, but even there they’re significantly lagging.
It was weird watching the divergent development of cell phones in Japan vs the US. The US cell phone industry went all in on software advancements. Japan had phones with all of these weird attachable hardware modules. I remember Japanese cell phones looking like an old gameboy with every attachment accessory on it.
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Japan also started the whole emoji thing, though.
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Well sort of. But pretty much all of the current emoji are Western inventions. Seriously we added like a bajillion things to it.
The original Japanese ones were only about 25 or something.
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They also embraced QR codes a decade or more before the West did.
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I take issue with this article using the language "lagging behind in the use of generative AI". That language seems to imply there is something wrong in this behaviour.
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It's a creative country. They don't need a slopbot to make substandard garbage for them.
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To real
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thing | thing, japan
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Well, there’s no fax API so how would they access it?
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In other news, Japan has an aging population.
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Or aging or sensible?
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if any country has an actual interest in replacing their disappearing population with AI workers, it would be Japan
Youmay not be wrong, but it reinforces the notion AI is a new tiktok fad and nothing truly useful
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Yeah, I bet TikTok isn't really popular among the elderly people too..
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Because they're not brain dead idiots perhaps ?
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Use it for what? Generating a bunch of nonsense text that others have to waste time reading? Generating shitty images with fucked up hands and garbled text to use in stupid ads for worthless trash?
This is a "competitive advantage" not worth pursuing. Most AI products/services lose money and even if they didn't, they're creatively bankrupt as a whole and shouldn't be admired for squeezing money with lower quality.
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Like I did not already like the way that country does things enough.
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Yeah, their work-the-workers-literally-to-death culture is top notch.
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That, and doing all they can to eliminate romance in their population. I wouldn't be surprised if they had the highest incel rate per capita in the world.
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Japan is the only place ive seen ai ads and posters around town though
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Japanese people tend to make a big deal out of the "human touch," especially when it comes to service, so I can see how companies aren't jumping on to the hype. We're also pretty slow to adopt change.
Oh and maybe the shit exchange rate makes it expensive to use the service as everything is pretty much foreign tech.
Aren't they the ones that first came up with robot servers in restaurants? Or maybe that was South Korea?
It might actually be China. All the robots I see here are the one with the cat face and I'm pretty sure that's where they come from. We don have remote control robot cafes where people with physical/mental disabilities to serve you using avatar bots which is cool!
This statement is in complete contradiction to the prevalence of vending machines for everything. Methinks you are romanticizing a culture you don’t live in by only seeing the positives you like.
That's kind of an insulting assumption as I'm Japanese and live in Japan. So while I may have a biased opinion, I wouldn't say it's romantisizing.
In fact, I'd say you're the one that seems to be making assumptions based on snippets of our culture that you see on the internet. The weird vending machines that sell letters from your pretend grandma to used panties aren't found everywhere you go — they're in specific locations for the novelty.
Also having regular vending machines for drinks and food doesn't exactly contradict my point. The vending machines are more for the customers' convenience. They're not installed specifically for removing human contact. Yes, we lose human contact as a result, but it's a tradeoff to better serve customers whereas most companies that deploy AI support agents probably do so to save a buck.
Sorry about the rant.