> Facing acute labour shortages, ageing demographics and chronic productivity problems, Japanese companies should be fertile ground for the take-up of artificial intelligence (AI). Yet, compared with the US and UK, adoption in many workplaces remains sluggish and cautious.
> Japan's response to AI is beginning to resemble one of the country's slow-moving, traditional Noh plays.
> All the masked characters up on stage agree that action is urgent, and the call is repeated with solemn agreement. Yet the actors remain frozen in place.
> Great for heightening drama, terrible for addressing the country's immediate difficulties.
ooh wait, I want to try, too:
Facing acute climate change catastrophes, ageing demographics and chronic surveillance problems, British companies should be barren ground for the gold rush to so-called "artificial intelligence" (LLMs). Yet, compared with Japan, adoption in many workplaces proceeds lemming-like and imprudent.
The UK's response to LLMs is beginning to resemble one of the country's hyperkinetic, traditional "Punch and Judy" plays.
All the puppet characters up on stage agree that further action is reckless, and the calls for moderation are repeated with raucous laughter. Yet the puppets go on punching one another with impunity.
Great for slapstick comedy, terrible for addressing the country's longstanding injustices.
(*I am aware that this is not how Punch & Judy works. My description is still nowhere near as wrong as BBC's assassination of Noh theatre; it's difficult to be *that* off-base with exoticism even when I'm trying to do it on purpose.)
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