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Banyan (菩提,亚洲版块) — named for the banyan tree, this column was established in April 2009 and focuses on various issues across the Asian continent, and is written byDominic Ziegler.
这个词为专栏名称,是具有该版块比较有代表性兼具内含性的某些人物或者事物,就如我们汉语一种修辞手法,借代。选择菩提(Banyan)作为专栏名,是因为《经济学人》认为菩提最能代表泛亚形象。一则菩提树与佛教渊源颇深,佛祖释迦牟尼在菩提树下静坐7个日夜后,大彻大悟;再则由于印度西部古吉拉特商人往往在菩提树树荫下买卖交易,菩提树也因此而得名,所以《经济学人》认为菩提树是亚洲精神文明和物质文明的双重象征。在亚洲,菩提还与公共事务有着千丝万缕的联系,也是他们选择的理由之一。
Generative fears
关于这个短语,我们先进行拆分理解,generative 是形容词,其英语释义为"that can produce sth",含义为有生产力的、能生产的;fear为名词,其英语含义为“the bad feeling that you have when you are in danger, when sth bad might happen, or when a particular thing frightens you”,含义为恐惧。我们再将这两个词放在一起,“generative fears”可能指的是一种具有生成或产生恐惧的一种现象或事物,我们再结合上文的“banyan”,可以推测出本文讲的内容是有关于网络带来的恐惧。
Japan ia remarkably open to AI, but slowly to make use of it.
日本对人工智能非常开放,但利用人工智能的速度很慢。
be open to 对·····开放;容易接受
make use of 利用
这句话概括了本文的主要内容,本文主要讲述日本在人工智能领域中理念和现实的差异。
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Overview
这个部分提出了日本对于AI开放而包容的态度。第一段首先提出了一个问题“当美国人提起AI时,首先想起哪一位文化明星?”,同时提出日本人在面对同样的问题时想起的是哪位人物,通过这两个不同的国家的人想起AI人物进行对比,从而提出日本对于AI使用的态度。第二段是通过数据对比再一次论证强调日本对于AI的态度。
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第三段站在政治视角,从日本国家领导人、相关政策这两个主要方面例举了日本使用AI的例子。
第四段从经济方面,举例了日本各行各业使用AI的情况。通过这两个方面的例子论证了日本对于AI使用开放包容的态度。
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第五段是一个转折,起承上启下的作用,这一段主要讲虽然日本在总体上对AI使用保持着一个开放且乐观的态度,但是在实践上,日本已经错过了利用AI的最佳时机。第六段则主要讲日本造成这一局面的原因和目前面临的严峻形势和问题。
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This article mainly talks about Japan's attitude towards AI and the current development of AI in Japan. Japan's overall attitude to AI is open and positive. However, Japan has missed the boat on AI actually.
Then, a question is raised: Is Japan intellectually tolerant of AI? May not. Japanese can bear the use of AI in small everyday situation. But, they rarely use AI in a large scale because of risk-averse. This mentality is also an important reason of Japan missing the best oppotunity to develop AI.
How about the development of China's AI?China's AI is flourishing and changing rapidly. In terms of the number of enterprises, the number of AI related enterprises in China has reached 9183, ranking among the top in the world; In terms of researchers, top AI researchers in China account for 11.1% of the world's total. Our hard conditions for development are very strong, but we still have something to deal with. For example, China's laws about AI. Until now, China have formulated many laws regarding AI,such as Cybersecurity Law of the People's Republic of China(2016) Data Security Law of the People's Republic of China(2021)and so on. However, China's relevant laws and regulations on AI are still incomplete. The training and application of big data require processing large amounts of data, which may contain sensitive or personal information. The current data protection laws and regulations may not fully cover these aspects, resulting in legal gaps and deficiencies. For China, there still has a long way to go.
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1.图片来源:百度百科
2.对于Bnayan的板块知识讲解:微信公众号王不留
3.文章出处:The Economist 2024年10月26日期刊
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