The government has drawn up a draft of its basic program on the development and use of artificial intelligence, aiming to increase the AI utilization rate among the public initially to 50% and eventually to 80%.<\/p>\n
The draft emphasizes the need to boost AI usage with a view to developing Japan’s own AI technologies.<\/p>\n
It also seeks a policy to attract about \u00a51 trillion ($6.4 billion) in private-sector investment to enhance research and development activities. The government aims to adopt the basic program at a Cabinet meeting by the end of the year.<\/p>\n
Currently, the United States and China are taking the lead in the development of AI, with the proportion of people who have used generative AI standing at 68.8% and 81.2%, respectively, far higher than 26.7% in Japan.<\/p>\n
The draft highlights the importance of raising AI utilization across society to promote development. AI is positioned as a social infrastructure, described as “an intellectual foundation and an execution platform.”<\/p>\n
The draft includes plans to create an “AI ecosystem” in which AI developers and users, semiconductor manufacturers and cloud service providers collaborate as a single ecosystem to pave the way for expanding into overseas markets and addressing Japan’s trade deficit in the digital sector.<\/p>\n
It also calls for AI to be utilized by all ministries and agencies, and eventually by all government employees.<\/p>\n
Specific examples of the 1-trillion-yen private-sector investment include projects to secure human resources, support the expansion of the AI industry into emerging markets and improve research and development infrastructure.<\/p>\n
In her policy speech in October, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi pledged to make Japan “the easiest country in the world to develop and utilize AI.”<\/p>\n
Prioritizing AI as a key investment area, the government plans to accelerate research and development by attracting investment through public-private partnerships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The government has drawn up a draft of its basic program on the development and use of artificial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,3938,60,216,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-179381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-investments","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-tech","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}