Japan's AI Revolution: Breaking Language Barriers with Homegrown Technology

Japan is developing AI systems, similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT, using the Japanese language.

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Current AI models excel in English but struggle with Japanese due to linguistic and cultural differences.

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Japanese sentences have a different structure from English, making translation challenging.

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The complexity of the Japanese writing system, including kanji characters, adds to the difficulty.

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Japanese AI systems sometimes generate rare characters and unfamiliar words.

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For AI to be useful, it must reflect cultural practices and language accurately.

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A ranking system called Rakuda assesses AI's cultural appropriateness in Japanese.

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GPT-4 currently outperforms Japanese language models but could change with more resources.

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Japan's Fugaku supercomputer is working on a Japanese language model.

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Japan is investing heavily in generative AI technologies for various industries.

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