Beyond the Tech Bros

Artificial Intelligence in Japan

It doesn’t seem so long ago that when someone mentioned artificial intelligence, you knew that a reference to The Terminator was on its way.

AI was only an occasional news story and few of us were all that concerned. Fine, then, to indulge the fantasy that a race of muscular, chiselled Arnie-bots might one day - one day - arise and turn their guns on us…

Now, AI has truly arrived: from ChatGPT to online services like Amazon working it into their websites - albeit that proud boasts of ‘powered by artificial intelligence’ are sometimes made for what seem like pretty ordinary search functions (more PR than AI, perhaps).