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Japan using generative AI less than other countries (www3.nhk.or.jp)
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[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 103 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] JackDark@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

Japanese people tend to make a big deal out of the "human touch," especially when it comes to service

Aren't they the ones that first came up with robot servers in restaurants? Or maybe that was South Korea?

[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago

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!

[-] nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

Japan also did that, but it mostly just for the uniqueness of the robot, not for replacing workforce.

[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

We probably don't have the workforce to replace since we won't open up to immigration lol

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

Nah, you wouldnt see 24/7 restaurants like ガスト using them; similar to the conveyors at sushiro, it enables the company to run a 30 table restaurant with like 3 people.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 45 points 3 weeks ago

Country known for historically being resistant to rapid technological change is resisting newest technological change trends.

How surprising.

[-] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 44 points 3 weeks ago

Not that surprising considering Japanese government only retired floppy disks in 2024 and fax machines are still in widespread use there.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago

They could have AI on a floppy that faxes generated images.

[-] MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

I suddenly have a love for Japan and want to live there among my 2000s tech hoard

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 36 points 3 weeks ago

Japan Not Entirely Stupid Fucking Morons

ftfy

[-] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 36 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.

[-] jawa22 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Japan also started the whole emoji thing, though.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

They also embraced QR codes a decade or more before the West did.

[-] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 32 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] luxyr42@lemmy.dormedas.com 31 points 3 weeks ago

Wonder if that will end up helping in the longer term.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

As opposed to the shorter term?

[-] Truscape 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Shorter term: less foreign investments in the speculative industry casino of AI in their country

Longer term: A less brainrotted workforce

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Idk, their population is pretty brain rotted...

[-] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago

It's a creative country. They don't need a slopbot to make substandard garbage for them.

[-] 2FortGaming@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

To real

[-] unnamedau@lemmy.ca 21 points 3 weeks ago

thing | thing, japan

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 weeks ago

Well, there’s no fax API so how would they access it?

[-] PushButton@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago

In other news, Japan has an aging population.

[-] Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago

Or aging or sensible?

[-] Jhex@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] PushButton@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I bet TikTok isn't really popular among the elderly people too..

[-] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

And do you think all the shrimp jesuses on facebook are made by and for young people?

[-] PushButton@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I don't know what are those, and for some reasons, I am afraid to look it up...

You know, Japan...

[-] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 weeks ago

Shrimp Jesus is wery western phenomenon

[-] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago

Because they're not brain dead idiots perhaps ?

[-] hark@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 7 points 3 weeks ago

Like I did not already like the way that country does things enough.

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, their work-the-workers-literally-to-death culture is top notch.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] xnx@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

Japan is the only place ive seen ai ads and posters around town though

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