Japan will be a grand testing ground”… “AI can’t do it,” asks a leading artificial intelligence researcher.

‘Judges might as well be AI instead of people’

AI is being introduced more and more in the company, streamlining administrative work.

Demis Hassabis, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year, used AI to develop technology to predict protein structures and design artificial proteins. He says he was able to finish the data processing required for drug discovery in a matter of minutes, which used to take a year.

He said, “Society will make great strides by using AI. I believe that more and more government agencies and companies will adopt AI in the future.

Satoshi Kurihara, a professor at Keio University’s Faculty of Science and Technology, said, “AI cannot be used. Professor Kurihara is the author of “What AI Cannot Do: Limitations and Possibilities Correctly Reported by Artificial Intelligence Researchers,” and currently serves as the president of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence.

The reason why government agencies and companies are adopting AI is that replacing jobs that were previously done by humans with AI will help them save on labor costs.”

At one time, it was said that the advent of AI would take away blue-collar jobs. However, now it is the white-collar workers who are losing their jobs.

ChatGPT is filled with books, documents, and data from all ages and cultures. If all we have to do is make rulings based on past precedents, judges might as well be AIs instead of people.

According to Professor Kurihara, the development of AI will also create a gap.

With AI, troublesome tasks can be completed in a short time, and with ChatGPT, anything can be answered. This convenience will make more and more people think for themselves.

Only humans can “invent” and “discover.” …… What is “human ability”?

What kind of skills should one acquire in order not to fall behind?

Until recently, IT skills, such as the ability to create programs, may have been necessary. Basic digital manipulation skills are required at a minimum, but it is also important to know what you want AI to do and what kind of things you want to make it do.

Today’s AI can answer what it is asked, but only humans can make discoveries and inventions.

What humans will need in the future is a rich imagination and the ability to think creatively in order to make inventions and discoveries. This, he says, has nothing to do with what kind of work they will do.

ChatGPT is a great help for invention and discovery.

Asking questions to ChatGPT is like asking questions to tens or hundreds of millions of people. Naturally, there are people who know more than you do, and there are people whose sensibilities differ from yours. It is only natural that you will get answers that you were not aware of.”

When I didn’t have AI, I consulted people. He says it is no different than consulting with them.

When you brainstorm, there are only five or six people in the room. If you ask ChatGPT, you will get an answer in a few seconds, which is the same as asking a few hundred million people. It’s not just a matter of how much it can help you, but it’s like a moon to the sky. That is AI.

Professor Kurihara believes that innovation will be more likely to occur with the use of AI than ever before.

Think of ChatGPT as “one of the members” of a brainstorming session

But the truth is, it’s very difficult to master ChatGPT.”

ChatGPT will answer what you ask, but only what you ask. To get answers, you have to ask questions, but if you ask the wrong questions, you won’t get unexpected answers.

If you want to get unexpected answers, you have to be very creative in the way you ask questions. There is a tremendous amount of knowledge in there, but it is difficult to get answers that I don’t expect. Perhaps I, too, am using only a fraction of my true abilities.”

In order to ask a wide variety of questions, it is necessary to have the ability to see things from different perspectives, to understand what people are saying, and to have the ability to think out of the box.

Another important thing is not to use ChatGPT on a one-on-one basis, because if you use it on a one-on-one basis, you will not be able to come up with anything beyond your own abilities and ideas. It is better to use it as a member of a brainstorming group.

Only by training the brain can AI be used to its fullest potential.

In order to develop “human ability,” it is important to train the brain through physical play and exposure to a variety of things during childhood.

In Australia, a system has been introduced to prevent children under the age of 16 from accessing social media,

He said, “You are absolutely right. The Internet works well when used for business and work, but you don’t need to use it anywhere else. There is no point in relying solely on the Internet and AI when we need to train our brains. It is only when we train our brains that we will be able to use AI.

What should we do now that the time for brain training has passed?

For example, we should read books. Not business books, but literary books. To understand things, to think, and to think about ideas, it is better to read novels, philosophy books, and so on. If your emotions are stirred, it means that your brain has been stimulated.

AI can only be used at your level, so you have to improve yourself.

Japan will be a grand testing ground.

Japan is said to be a digitally backward country. Will Japan be able to turn things around in the future?

AI is a tool. It cannot make its own decisions and act on its own. However, autonomous AI that can make its own decisions will surely emerge in the future. I think Japan has the soil to accept it.

The appearance of AI robots like Astro Boy and Doraemon is not that far off in the future. However, there is a growing movement to regulate such AI robots, particularly in the European Union.

In the Christian world,” he said, “man is under God, all technology is a tool to help man, and robots are just tools. So there is resistance to the type of AI that operates actively.

In contrast, in Japan, there has long been a culture of seeing AI robots such as Astro Boy and Doraemon as friends. They also coexist with non-human characters such as Yurukyara. This kind of culture is unique to Japan.”

Japan has a culture of accepting AI robots, according to Professor Kurihara.

Japan will be the site of a grand experiment in the use of autonomous AI robots. What is needed then is not the digital ability to operate AI, but what to do with Doraemon. We need to train our brains.”

When autonomous AI appears on the scene, what should humans do?

We will be happier and more comfortable because AI will do all the tedious work for us. Humans will just do what they want to do.

In Roman times, the Romans had slaves do everything they didn’t want to do. As a result, various philosophies and arts blossomed. That could happen in the future.

Satoshi Kurihara is a professor at the Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University. President of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence. Director of Keio University Research Center for Symbiotic Intelligence and Emergent Society. Director of AIC Generative Laboratory, Keio University. He is working on the construction of autonomous cognitive architectures to realize AI that can coexist with humans. In network science, he analyzes complex social and biological phenomena from a network perspective to explore new knowledge and applications.