Japan is readying a $65 billion push in microchips and artificial intelligence (AI) aimed at reclaiming its status as a global tech leader and meeting the urgent challenges of its ageing, shrinking population. <\/p>\n
The 10-trillion-yen package, which lawmakers could approve this week, is also seen as preparation for an uncertain world as fears grow of a potential Chinese invasion of chip powerhouse Taiwan. <\/p>\n
But analysts warn that question marks remain over worker shortages and whether Japan can generate enough electricity for energy-hungry AI data centres. <\/p>\n
After dominating tech hardware during the 1980s, “Japan had a quite a long period of almost just sitting back and observing a lot of this innovation, particularly when it comes to artificial intelligence”, said Kelly Forbes, president of the AI Asia Pacific Institute. <\/p>\n
“What we have seen in the last maybe two to three years is Japan really waking up to the potential” of such developments, she told AFP. <\/p>\n
Japanese tech investor SoftBank and US computing giant Nvidia last week unveiled ambitious proposals to build an “AI grid” across the nation. <\/p>\n
That followed a flurry of US investments earlier this year, including from Microsoft, a partner of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI
\nAI-powered automation can help Japan, which has the world’s second oldest population after Monaco, said Seth Hays, author of the Asia AI Policy Monitor newsletter. <\/p>\n
“Demographically speaking, Japan’s just going to be crunched on that,” he said. <\/p>\n
So “they need to utilise AI in order to get those productivity gains that keep the country going”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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