AI initiative: Jack Ma, former chairman of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd gestures while speaking with Son at Tokyo Forum 2019 on Friday. Son unveiled a US$184mil initiative to accelerate AI research in Japan, enlisting Ma to expound on his goal of commercialising the technology. —Bloomberg
TOKYO: SoftBank Group Corp founder Masayoshi Son has a solution to Japan’s decades-long economic malaise. Not surprisingly, it involves artificial intelligence (AI).
Japan can boost growth by joining with India and South-East Asian countries in creating a common AI platform, Son told scientists and government bureaucrats who gathered in Tokyo yesterday for the government’s Moonshot symposium. He envisions Japan taking a leading role and believes the combined populations and markets could give the countries a fighting chance against the behemoths of China and the United States, which share the lead in AI, he said.
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