Less than 20% of Japanese firms using generative AI: survey

AI is the last chance for the chronically unproductive to lift their game. Companies that do not jump at this chance on the table will fall behind and eventually disappear. How so many firms here don’t realize this is beyond comprehension.

Is falling behind a strategy, a goal?

And that's why, Japan completely and totally lost any competition or lead they had left in IT and Technology. Sadly, the Chinese, Taiwanese and Koreans are already years ahead in the semiconductor, innovation, research and development for IT solutions and technology.

In Japan they are still using Faxes, ISDN lines, birocracy is still mostly paper based, no digital signature allowed, etc, etc.

Regarding AI, the biggest investors are from North America, China, Taiwan and Europe.

So sad again to see that Japan is missing yet another technology trend...

Inadequate internal expertise? How about just using the tools that come with the computer? It's all going AI whether you like it or not.

But actually many of these same employees would struggle to type iin a URL into a browser. They just think the homepage (which often defaults to Yahoo Japan) is the entire internet. And they use Excel to make forms. And they are given comprehensive manuals for everything except these manuals with screen shots of each step are outdated as soon as the next update comes out.

Basic computer literacy should be mandatory in schools.

The company may not use it in a systematic way but at an individual level I think (hope) that many employees use generative tools like Chat GPT in their daily work to generate email, correcting mistakes in a text , improving style, summarizing text, translation …etc. No need for any expertise for that.

Working smart, and smarter is the future, the days of working hard and harder till you drop dead are behind us.

Doesn't take much to "utilize AI", install edge, fire up co-pilot and start typing. It's the "equalizer" between beginner and mid-level expert. It will be "idea" economics from now on, "learning, practicing, and becoming good at something" will no longer matter as much in many aspect of life.

Why companies should use AI ? That’s the question. The article is written in a way this should be used.

No need for it.

At best t's something 'interesting' to try out and play around a bit with it in one's private leisure time. But there is no practical application and reliable use case for it in a serious business environment. Checking and validating every single AI output, that's impossible or too cost and resource intensive and finally brings not the wished benefits, in contrary.

Many more companies should at least use it for English translations. I'm tired of seeing "crap salad" instead of "crab salad" on menus or "flesh meat" instead of "fresh meat."